Cookies & biscuits · Original adaptation
Homemade Wagon Wheels Recipe
Crisp round biscuits sandwiching raspberry jam and vanilla marshmallow, finished with a thin dark-chocolate coating.
Inspired by The Great British Bake Off, Season 9, Episode 1
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Homemade Wagon Wheels
- Prep
- 50 min
- Bake
- 14 min
- Total
- 1 hr 4 min
- Makes
- 8 sandwich biscuits
Ingredients
- 180 g plain flour
- 30 g icing sugar
- 100 g unsalted butter, cold and cubed
- 1 large egg yolk
- 80 g seedless raspberry jam
- 8 large vanilla marshmallows, halved
- 250 g dark chocolate
- 1 teaspoon neutral oil
Method
Rub the butter into the flour and icing sugar, add the yolk and 1 tablespoon cold water, and bring the dough together. Chill for 25 minutes.
Roll the dough to 4 mm thick, cut 16 rounds with a 7 cm cutter, and bake at 180 C, or 160 C fan, for 12 to 14 minutes. Cool completely.
Spread eight biscuits with jam. Arrange two marshmallow halves on each and warm under a low grill just until soft.
Press the remaining biscuits on top and chill the sandwiches for 15 minutes.
Melt the chocolate with the oil, coat each sandwich, drain on a rack, and leave to set on baking paper.
From the episode
Biscuits
This adaptation starts from the episode's biscuits brief and reshapes it for ordinary home equipment and a manageable batch.
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The sources below document the episode challenge. The quantities and method on this page are independently written by Baking Show Guide; they are not copied from a contestant or broadcaster recipe.
