I make these every year and I thought some of you might like the recipe. It's taken me ages to get it just right to work with a Sawa biscuit maker (like an oversized icing tube) but you can roll out the dough and use a simple cookie cutter.
Ingredients:
6oz butter
6oz plain flour
2oz icing (powdered) sugar
2oz custard powder
Vanilla or almond essence to flavour
Method:
Beat all the ingredients together in a food mixer. If you have to do it by hand, cream the butter and sugar first, then add the custard powder, then the flour. You should have a nice pliable dough. If it's very soft, pop it in the fridge for a few minutes. Then either roll it out thin and use cookie cutters or use a biscuit maker to pipe it onto ungreased baking trays. I use a star shape. Bake them at 170 degrees fan for about fifteen minutes. I dredge them with a bit of icing sugar, but you could dip them in chocolate or add icing. They make a great little gift.
Happy Solstice!!
Ingredients:
6oz butter
6oz plain flour
2oz icing (powdered) sugar
2oz custard powder
Vanilla or almond essence to flavour
Method:
Beat all the ingredients together in a food mixer. If you have to do it by hand, cream the butter and sugar first, then add the custard powder, then the flour. You should have a nice pliable dough. If it's very soft, pop it in the fridge for a few minutes. Then either roll it out thin and use cookie cutters or use a biscuit maker to pipe it onto ungreased baking trays. I use a star shape. Bake them at 170 degrees fan for about fifteen minutes. I dredge them with a bit of icing sugar, but you could dip them in chocolate or add icing. They make a great little gift.
Happy Solstice!!