Custard Creams
Custard creams are a variety of sandwich cookie (US) or biscuit (UK).
Source and licence
"Custard Creams" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Custard_Creams, revision 4517596), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Custard_Creams&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
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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
Method
- Combine the flour, bicarbonate of soda, and salt in a bowl.
- Beat the butter, sugar and vanilla in a mixing bowl until soft and fluffy.
- Beat in the egg.
- Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, and bring together until a dough forms.
- Knead the dough for 2 minutes on a floured surface until smooth.
- Shape the dough into a flat disc. Cover with clingfilm and chill for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to .
- Line 2 baking trays with parchment paper.
- Roll out the dough to thick.
- Cut out into 24 circles with a cookie cutter.
- Transfer the biscuits to the prepared baking trays.
- Bake for 10–12 minutes until well-cooked.
- Place the biscuits on a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
- Spoon 1 tablespoon of custard onto one biscuit. Sandwich it together with another biscuit.
- Repeat the biscuit assembly, using remaining biscuits and custard.
- Enjoy!