LiveSTRONG - Passionfruit Melting Moments

Melting Moments. The name says it all for me! There is something about them that comforts from the inside out, almost warming if you know what I mean? This version is my particular favourite, soooo moreish, buttery, crumbly and sweet with the passionfruit cream that sandwiches the biscuits together. Just the sight of them can make me smile - can't explain why, they just do!

Yo-Yo's are a wee reminder from my childhood as well. Every time we went into town when we were little we had to walk passed the CWA (Country Women's Association) Shop, their window was always festooned with homemade goodies of all sorts. But Yo-Yo's were always a feature, without fail. Very rarely did we go into the CWA Shop, Mum was a dab hand at making them herself so there was never the need to buy them. Mum's version has always been made with plain icing and raspberry jam, which were nice ... but ... well, I've already waxed lyrically about my life long love of passionfruit so I won't bore you with the details again!

Mum was diagnosed with breast cancer not long after I moved to the UK. It was a pretty rough time for all involved as my Brother was living in London at the time and me in Chester. I couldn't afford the airfare to get home, Mum insisted she didn't want either of us to come home, so instead we got the update reports about how all the different family members and friends accompanied her to the different doctor's and hospital appointments and chemo treatments. I'm the first to admit that I found it an incredibly difficult thing to deal with, I can't even begin to imagine how Mum coped!

Thankfully, Mum has made a full recovery, although there have been a couple of scares with some of her check ups since and we are currently awaiting the results of the last lot. So when I discovered the Lance Armstrong LiveSTRONG 'A Taste Of Yellow' event over at Winos and Foodies Blog I knew exactly what I was going to make.

Passionfruit Melting Moments

185g butter, softened

1/2 cup icing sugar, sifted

1/2 cup cornflour, sifted

1 1/4 cups plain flour, sifted

Passionfruit Filling

40g butter, softened

1/4 cup icing sugar, sifted

2 tsp passionfruit pulp

Icing sugar, for dusting

Preheat oven to 160C and line two baking trays with baking paper. Place butter and icing sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until pale and creamy. Add flours and mix until combined.

Wrap the shortbread in plastic and place in the fridge for hour an hour (or pop in the freezer for 15 mins if you are impatient as I am!), before rolling 2 tsp of mixture at a time into balls and placing on baking trays, leaving a small gap between each. Flatten with the back of a fork (dip the fork in some flour to prevent the shortbread sticking to it). Repeat until you have used all the mixture.

Bake for 15 mins or until only just lightly coloured, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

To make passionfruit filling, beat butter and sugar together until pale, then stir in passionfruit pulp. Sandwich two shortbread's together with some of the filling and dust with icing sugar.

Makes 15

Recipe from Ninemsn