Passionfruit Melting Moments - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 None passionfruit, pulp scooped out and pressed through a fine-mesh strainer, pulp and 1 tbsp juice reserved
1 cup butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup powdered sugar, sifted
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
2/3 cup cornstarch, sifted
-1 None Passionfruit Buttercream
6 1/2 tbsp butter, softened
2/3 cup powdered sugar, sifted, plus extra to dust

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325\u00b0F. Line 3 baking trays with parchment paper.
Beat butter, vanilla and powdered sugar until pale. Stir in flour and cornstarch in 2 batches. Stir in passionfruit pulp. With lightly floured hands, roll 2 level tsp of mixture into balls and place on baking trays about 1 inch apart. Dip a fork into a little extra flour and use to flatten cookies. Bake for 15 mins, or until cookies are a pale straw color. Let cool on trays for 5 mins then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
To make the passionfruit buttercream, beat butter and powdered sugar until pale and fluffy. Beat in 1 tbsp reserved passionfruit juice.
Sandwich cookies together with 1 tsp passionfruit buttercream. Dust with powdered sugar.