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Us Brits absolutely love a good cup of tea and a few biscuits, and what could be better than winding down with one of the ultimate classics – a custard cream. Our custard creams biscuit recipe for the retro treat is perfect to bring out and really wow your friends and family.
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ingredients:
- - 1 quantity of our easy vanilla biscuit dough (linked below)
- - 100g butter
- - 200g icing sugar
- - A few drops of vanilla essence
serves:12
difficulty:easy
30 mins
Read now: Easy vanilla biscuit dough
Beat these together with your chosen flavouring ingredients until light and fluffy and completely combined. Keep the butter cream covered closely with cling film until you are ready to use it.
For the icing: Basic royal icing
How to make:
1) Create a batch of our vanilla biscuit dough and then cut the dough by hand, or use a rectangular cutter to make 24 vanilla biscuits.
2) Before the biscuits are placed in the oven, poke three evenly spaced wholes on half of the quantity of rectangles. This will be for the tops of your custard creams.
2) Bake for 15-25 minutes depending on the size of your biscuits at 170°C, and leave at least 15 minutes to cool before icing.
3) Once the biscuits are cool use the line icing to carefully pipe on the details and of course the name on to the 12 tops of the biscuit in the traditional custard cream pattern. Let the icing dry for around 10 minutes until it has set hard.
4) Use a palette knife to evenly spread the delicious vanilla butter cream onto the 12 base biscuits.
5) Carefully press the iced biscuit tops down onto the butter cream until they stick together.
6) Finally, sit back and enjoy your very own classic custard cream! Why not instagram or tweet us your creations - follow us at @biscuiteersltd.
