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Thursday 29 August 2013

Custard Creams

When it comes to biscuits to accompany a good cup of tea, we all have our favourites. My personal favourite is the custard cream - they are THE best tea-dunking biscuit! And my boyfriend agrees. So I made up a batch of homemade custard creams, to make a change from the usual shop-bought ones...it gave me the opportunity to use my amazing new cutter as well!

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Ingredients
For the biscuits:
100g margarine/butter
100g plain flour
50g caster sugar
50g custard powder
1tsp vanilla extract
For the filling:
75g butter/margarine
150g icing sugar
50g custard powder

Method
Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl. Fold in the flour, custard powder and vanilla until a dough is formed.

Flour a surface and roll out the dough to about 1/2 cm thickness. Cut out the shapes, ensuring you have an even amount/duplicates of the shapes you have cut.

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Place your shapes on a baking tray lined with baking parchment and bake in the oven at 200C/fan 180C/gas 6 for about 10 minutes/until golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Mix the icing sugar, butter and custard powder and spread onto one half of a biscuit, then push the other half on top. Repeat until all biscuits are filled, and enjoy!

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6 comments:

  1. That cutter is amazing! They look delicious and I completely agree that custard creams are the best biscuits

    Julia x

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  2. These look so professional and it doesn't look too hard to recreate either! yum! xx Jade

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  3. Yum! I want your biscuits! :) Custard is my favourite thing in the world!

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  4. Wowee! They look better than the real thing! I love your cutter- so many possibilities for funny messages on biscuits with a thing like that haha!
    Kaz at Sunshine Days x

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  5. Oh my god, I have no words......ok I do. Custard Creams are my all time favorite tea dunking biscuit, and these look amazing, one talented baker right here!
    http://wwwclairabelle.blogspot.co.uk/

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  6. Ohh where's the cutter from?
    Gooooorgeous! :)
    x x x

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