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Melt in the mouth Custard Creams perfect with an afternoon cuppa. These delicious homemade biscuits are so simple to bake you'll never want to buy shop-bought ones again! Step Two: Using a palette knife or butter knife spread over a layer of buttercream onto half the biscuits. Next, pair up the biscuits with another half that is roughly the same size and shape (as they will vary slightly). Sandwich the two halves together gently. Top Tips Step One: Make the filling by creaming together the butter, icing sugar, custard powder, vanilla and milk. Beat until smooth and pale - when it's ready it should be the consistency of spreadable butter. Now, add the vanilla. If your kids are still quite young, you might need to hold the spoon while they pour in the vanilla or vice versa. Older children should be able to do this themselves.

Homemade British classic Custard Creams are a million times better than anything you can buy in the shops. They are so light with an incredible texture that really does melt in your mouth.Custard Creams can be easily shaped by hand. Follow the simple steps below for delicious bite-sized biscuits. Fit an electric mixer with the paddle attachment and sift the flour, baking powder, custard powder and icing sugar into the bowl. Mix to combine then add in the cubed butter and mix until the ingredients look like fine sand. Preheat your oven to 180C / 160C Fan / 350F and line 2-3 baking trays with baking or parchment paper. Cream the butter and sugar

Bake the biscuits in the oven for around 12 minutes. They’re ready when they have started to turn a little golden brown at the edges. Pour in the milk and vanilla and bring together into a dough. Remove the bowl from the mixer and knead the dough gently in the bowl with your hands. Flatten the dough into a disc but take care not to overwork it. Cover the dough with clingfilm and put it in the fridge to chill for one hour. Custard creams are one of the UK’s most popular biscuits. A buttery, vanilla flavoured biscuit sandwiched together with a custard flavoured buttercream. They’ve been around for over one hundred years, and are easy to find in any supermarket. Roll small pieces of dough (the size of a walnut or teaspoon’s worth) into round balls. Place on your prepared baking trays, leaving space between them for spreading. I find it works best if I give the kids the right amount of dough, and they roll it, otherwise the biscuits all end up different sizes. Step One: Fit an electric mixer with the paddle attachment and sift the flour, baking powder, custard powder and icing sugar into the bowl. Mix to combine then add in the cubed butter and mix until the ingredients look like fine sand.

How to make Custard Creams

Leave to completely cool before spreading the buttercream and sandwiching the biscuits together otherwise they might break. There is something very satisfying about mastering a classic biscuit recipe like the beloved Custard Cream. Once you know how easy it is to make one of the nation's favourite biscuits at home you can whip up a batch (or two) and keep them stashed in your biscuit tin. British classic The biscuits themselves are one of the simplest things you can make with your kids. Once you’ve measured and mixed all the ingredients to make the biscuit dough your kids can help roll pieces in their hands to make the biscuits and press them down with a fork. Using the k-paddle of your mixer, a hand held mixer or wooden spoons, beat the butter and sugar until it is nice and smooth. With this classic recipe, I'll show you how to shape the Custard Creams in two ways. You can either roll the biscuit dough into small balls and flatten them with a fork before baking - or, learn how to use a Custard Cream biscuit cutter to shape and print the biscuits with the classic Custard Cream pattern. You'll love this recipe because:

If you don’t have any self raising flour (it’s popular here in the UK, but less so in other countries), you can swap it for an equal amount of plain or all-purpose flour and add 1 ½ teaspoons of baking powder and a pinch of salt. What other easy biscuits can I make? Jump to Recipe Custard creams Custard creams are a classic biscuit in the UK. They’re a delicious crumbly biscuit sandwiched with custard flavoured buttercream icing, and this easy recipe means you can make them at home. Mix the egg white and vanilla into your creamed butter/sugar mixture. Add the flour and custard powder Get your kids to measure out the flour and custard powder and add them to your mixing bowl. Mix it all in, so it comes together nicely in a ball of biscuit dough. Using a hand held mixer or the k-paddle of your free-standing mixer, mix the icing together. Start very slowly and put a clean tea towel over the top if you can, to stop it getting too messy. Once the icing sugar has mixed in, you can turn the speed up and leave it mixing for a few minutes until it is nice and fluffy.Cream together the butter, icing sugar, custard powder, vanilla and milk. Beat until smooth, pale and the consistency of spreadable butter. Measure the icing sugar, butter, custard powder and vanilla extract out and add them to a mixing bowl or free-standing mixer. Add a splash of milk. Get your kids to measure out the sugar and butter and add them to a large mixing bowl or free-standing mixer. The butter needs to be soft so that it mixes in so if yours isn’t cut it into a few pieces and pop it in the microwave for 10 seconds or so, until it has softened (but not long enough to melt it). My family obviously know how much I love biscuits AND baking so it was the perfect present. I'm impressed with the cutters, they printed really well and made the biscuits look very authentic.