Melting Moments Biscuits/cookies

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 180 g unsalted butter
• 60 g icing sugar (sifted)
• 60 g custard powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 180 g plain flour (all purpose)
• 100 g butter (softened)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
• 1 cup icing sugar (sifted)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180c fan forced and line two oven trays with baking paper.
• 2 for biscuits, cream butter and for two minutes in an electric mixer with paddle attachment and then add icing sugar and custard powder and mix until combines.
• 3 sift the baking powder and flour together and then add to the dough and mix well.
• 4 roll dough into 40 grams balls, place on the baking paper lined trays and press each ball with a fork to leave an indent.
• 5 bake biscuits for 15 minutes or until light golden.
• 6 stand trays for 5 minutes to cool and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
• 7 for buttercream - whisk butter and vanilla until smooth and the add icing sugar and beat until mixture forms a paste, the consistency is thick icing.
• 8 spoon into a piping bag fitted with a small star (i just spread the mix on with a knife and consequently had some left over even though i put a fairly thick layer on).
• 9 to assemble, pipe buttercream in a circle onto the base of one half and then gently press the other half of onto the cream to make a full biscuit and to form a melting moment.
• 10 dust with icing sugar just before serving.