Making custard creams

For my birthday and Christmas I was given a few recipe cook books and I was particularly looking forward to making custard creams the most.

Although making custard creams may be a bit pointless as they can cost a grand total of 39p from Tesco, I went ahead with it anyway.

The recipe was from a book called Cookie Magic by Kate Shirazi, given to me by my friend Emma. It was quite a simple recipe to follow - it involves making biscuit dough and a custard butter icing. You do need the patience though to cut the rectangles and bake them - I accidentally burnt a batch.

It makes around 20 biscuits so it really isn't an alternative to buying these biscuits from the shops but it is still good fun and they are tasty.

If you want to make them yourself here is the recipe.

Put 175g of flour, 3 tablespoons of custard powder, 1 teaspoon of baking powder and 3 tablespoons of icing sugar in a bowl.

Mix in 60g of butter and 60g of white fat in with the dry ingredients until it looks like breadcrumbs.

In another bowl mix 1 egg with 1 tablespoon of milk. Then pour this in with the other ingredients. Mix all this together until it makes a dough. I found it came out quite sticky so put in some more flour until it looked more like dough rather than a cake mix.

Then wrap this dough in cling film and put in the fridge for 30 minutes.

After waiting roll it out until it is quite thin and cut small rectangles out, put them in a preheated oven at gas mark 5 or 190 Celsius. Leave them in there for about 10 minutes or until they look done.

Leave them to cool and make the cream bit of the biscuit which is 50g of butter, 1 tablespoon of custard powder and 100g of icing sugar, and add a few drops of water if needed.

Then sandwich together two biscuits with the custard cream filling.