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Now, add the vanilla. If your kids are still quite young, you might need to hold the spoon while they pour in the vanilla or vice versa. Older children should be able to do this themselves. Cream together the butter, icing sugar, custard powder, vanilla and milk. Beat until smooth, pale and the consistency of spreadable butter.

Preheat your oven to 180C / 160C Fan / 350F and line 2-3 baking trays with baking or parchment paper. Cream the butter and sugar Using a hand held mixer or the k-paddle of your free-standing mixer, mix the icing together. Start very slowly and put a clean tea towel over the top if you can, to stop it getting too messy. Once the icing sugar has mixed in, you can turn the speed up and leave it mixing for a few minutes until it is nice and fluffy. Using the k-paddle of your mixer, a hand held mixer or wooden spoons, beat the butter and sugar until it is nice and smooth. Step Two: Pour in the milk and vanilla and bring together into a dough. Remove the bowl from the mixer and knead the dough gently in the bowl with your hands. Flatten the dough into a disc but take care not to overwork it. Cover the dough with clingfilm and put it in the fridge to chill for one hour. There is something very satisfying about mastering a classic biscuit recipe like the beloved Custard Cream. Once you know how easy it is to make one of the nation's favourite biscuits at home you can whip up a batch (or two) and keep them stashed in your biscuit tin. British classicRoll small pieces of dough (the size of a walnut or teaspoon’s worth) into round balls. Place on your prepared baking trays, leaving space between them for spreading. I find it works best if I give the kids the right amount of dough, and they roll it, otherwise the biscuits all end up different sizes. If you don’t have any self raising flour (it’s popular here in the UK, but less so in other countries), you can swap it for an equal amount of plain or all-purpose flour and add 1 ½ teaspoons of baking powder and a pinch of salt. What other easy biscuits can I make?

Bake the biscuits in the oven for around 12 minutes. They’re ready when they have started to turn a little golden brown at the edges. Fit an electric mixer with the paddle attachment and sift the flour, baking powder, custard powder and icing sugar into the bowl. Mix to combine then add in the cubed butter and mix until the ingredients look like fine sand. Follow the steps below to learn how to cut and shape the Custard Cream dough, use the step by step photos and video in the recipe card to help you.

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Get your kids to measure out the sugar and butter and add them to a large mixing bowl or free-standing mixer. The butter needs to be soft so that it mixes in so if yours isn’t cut it into a few pieces and pop it in the microwave for 10 seconds or so, until it has softened (but not long enough to melt it). Jump to Recipe Custard creams Custard creams are a classic biscuit in the UK. They’re a delicious crumbly biscuit sandwiched with custard flavoured buttercream icing, and this easy recipe means you can make them at home.

Step One: Fit an electric mixer with the paddle attachment and sift the flour, baking powder, custard powder and icing sugar into the bowl. Mix to combine then add in the cubed butter and mix until the ingredients look like fine sand.

Melt in the mouth Custard Creams perfect with an afternoon cuppa. These delicious homemade biscuits are so simple to bake you'll never want to buy shop-bought ones again!

Get your kids to measure out the flour and custard powder and add them to your mixing bowl. Mix it all in, so it comes together nicely in a ball of biscuit dough. Custard creams are a great recipe for kids to help with. There are a lot of easy steps that even young children or toddlers can get involved with. The biscuits themselves are one of the simplest things you can make with your kids. Once you’ve measured and mixed all the ingredients to make the biscuit dough your kids can help roll pieces in their hands to make the biscuits and press them down with a fork. Press the biscuits down a little with your hands or a fork. If your kids are too young to help rolling the balls, this is a great step for them to help with instead. Or if you have more than one child helping you, give one the job of rolling the balls while the other does the flattening.

When all the egg white or as much of it as possible has been removed from the yolk, tip the egg yolk into your mixing bowl.