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Custard Creams

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: books needing images, medium difficulty, recipes for cookies, recipes for custard, recipes for dessert, recipes using all-purpose flour, recipes using baking soda, recipes using butter, recipes using egg, recipes using superfine sugar, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ACustard_Creams)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ACustard%20Creams&oldid=4517596

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 200 g (7.1 oz / 1½ cups) plain flour, plus extra for dusting
  • 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 80 g (2.8 oz / ⅔ stick) unsalted butter
  • 125 g (4.4 oz / ⅝ cup) superfine sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 standard (50 g) egg
  • 180 g (6.3 oz / ¾ cup) thick custard, such as pastry cream

Directions

  1. Combine the flour, bicarbonate of soda, and salt in a bowl.
  2. Beat the butter, sugar and vanilla in a mixing bowl until soft and fluffy.
  3. Beat in the egg.
  4. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, and bring together until a dough forms.
  5. Knead the dough for 2 minutes on a floured surface until smooth.
  6. Shape the dough into a flat disc. Cover with clingfilm and chill for 30 minutes.
  7. Preheat the oven to 190 °C (374 °F).
  8. Line 2 baking trays with parchment paper.
  9. Roll out the dough to 5 mm (0.20 in) thick.
  10. Cut out into 24 circles with a cookie cutter.
  11. Transfer the biscuits to the prepared baking trays.
  12. Bake for 10–12 minutes until well-cooked.
  13. Place the biscuits on a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
  14. Spoon 1 tablespoon of custard onto one biscuit. Sandwich it together with another biscuit.
  15. Repeat the biscuit assembly, using remaining biscuits and custard.
  16. Enjoy!

Notes

If the dough is too wet, mix in 1 tablespoon of plain flour.