About the bake
These traditional buttery and crisp biscuits keep well in a tin for 3-4 days - if you can save them that long. If you're feeling super indulgent, why not try out our chocolate dipped cornish fairings recipe.
Method
Step 1:
Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan, gas mark 4). Line 2 baking trays with baking parchment.
Step 2:
Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a pan over a low heat.
Step 3:
Sift the flour, ginger, mixed spice, cinnamon, bicarbonate of soda and a pinch of salt together into a bowl, then tip in the melted butter mixture and gently stir to form a smooth dough.
Step 4:
Place heaped teaspoonfuls of the mixture on to baking sheets, about 3cm apart to allow room for them to spread. Flatten slightly with a knife.
Step 5:
Bake for 8-10 minutes until golden brown. Allow to cool and harden on the baking tray for 10 minutes before cooling.
Ingredients
- 100g Butter (unsalted) (room temperature)
- 100g Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
- 2 tbsp Golden syrup
- 175g Allinson's Self Raising White Flour
- 2 tsp Ginger (ground)
- 0.5 tsp Mixed spice (ground)
- 0.5 tsp Cinnamon (ground)
- 0.5 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
- Pinch Salt
Recipe Reviews
It was incredible,it took me half an hour and turned out vet delicious. Will be a regular bake.
Never made Cornish fairings before. Very quickly and easy to ‘rustle up’. Nice and crisp, and I like the gingery warmth. Next time, I’ll reduce the sugar slightly.
Delicious- quick and easy to make
I'm really pleased with how they turned out: very tasty. It will definitely be a regular bake.
Needed fairings for a treacle tart recipe, as I have never heard of them googled this recipe and so easy to make and delicious. Won't be making treact tart with them, too much of a waste!!
Followed recipe to the letter but the biscuits came out very thin and flat and had spread all over the baking tray despite following instructions and only using one teaspoon of mixture. Looked like unrolled brandy snaps.
Ingredients
- 100g Butter (unsalted) (room temperature)
- 100g Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
- 2 tbsp Golden syrup
- 175g Allinson's Self Raising White Flour
- 2 tsp Ginger (ground)
- 0.5 tsp Mixed spice (ground)
- 0.5 tsp Cinnamon (ground)
- 0.5 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
- Pinch Salt