Coconut Custard Creams

Its hard to beat a classic custard cream biscuit, they are perfection, I can pop one in after the other, they are simply delicious and to be completely honest with you, they are so cheap in supermarkets these days. You can buy a pack of 50 for next to nothing, its incredible. So if there any real need to make your own?

Of course there is! You can beat homemade.

I did quite a bit of playing around with this recipe until I decided I had perfected a tremendous tribute to the Custard Cream and as you may have already guessed there is an addition of coconut to the biscuit, but I felt that the coconut gives the biscuit a real silky taste, its delectable!

I've had a few people taste this recipe now and I have had such good feedback that I couldn't wait to share this.

Coconut Custard Creams

100g Unsalted Butter, Softened

50g Caster Sugar

100g Plain Flour, plus extra for rolling out

1 Tin of Custard

25g Corn Flour

150g Icing sugar

18 Biscuits

• To make the biscuits beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Sift the flour into the mix and stir thoroughly.
• Now add 3 tbsp. of the tinned custard to the mix. Stir well, pop into some cling film and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
• While you wait, preheat the oven to 185 oc, prepare a baking tray with parchment and dust the work surface with flour.
• I didn't go with the classic sandwich filling for these biscuits, I made up an icing popping with produced a glossy and shinny, almost icy looking finish on the biscuits.
• For the icing and half of the tin of custard to a mix bowl and then add the icing sugar and give a good stir. You may think, 'this looks a bit thin'. put the mixture in the fridge, it will harden slightly by the time you come to decorate the biscuits but also once you decorate the biscuits and they dry, the icing will dry.
• Once the dough has spent 20 minutes in the fridge, roll out to the desired thickness and using a round cutter, cut out the biscuits and place on the baking tray.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes until golden.
  
  
  

  
  
• Once the biscuits are cool, dip top first into the mixture and place on the cooling rack. Repeat with all the biscuits.
  
  
  

  
  
• To finish dust with coconut shavings.
  
  
  

  
  
  Enjoy!