Mary Berry's Shrewsbury Biscuits & Cornish Fairings

Whenever I need to bake, I always go for Mary Berry's recipes as they always work like a treat. I particularly like the traybake recipes as they are quick and simple enough. The variety of victoria sandwich sponge recipes are also excellent. 

If you like classic bake goods, I personally I would highly recommend Mary Berry's Baking Bible over any other baking cookbook available on the market. I have tested a wide range of recipes from this book and have never had a bad experience. Some online retailers are selling this book at a very reasonable price.

I have recently used a couple of biscuits recipe from the book: 

Shrewberry Biscuits - They are not dissimilar to fruit shortcake. I was a little heavy handed with the sprinkle of sugar.

Cornish Fairings - They are like ginger biscuits, very autumn & Christmasy! What I like about this recipe is the technique of rolling a small dough, bake the biscuits half done and press them down using another baking tin to create this crinkly cracks. I thought these cracks help to create a more professional look to them. 

I bagged these biscuits up and took them to friend's for tea, and excellent goody bag!