Melting Moments with Custard Powder
These melt-in-your-mouth cookies are heavenly, made with a few ingredients yet so delicious. Perfect cookies to store in your cookie jar or make them as gifts
Servings: 14
Ingredients
- 125 gram/1/2 cup butter
- 1/4 cup/60ml icing sugar
- 1/4 cup/60ml custard powder
- 1/2 tspn vanilla essence
- 1/2 cup/125ml cake wheat flour plus 2 tablespoons
- glazed cherries for decorating
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper
- Using an electric mixer beat the butter until light and fluffy. Add the icing sugar and beat until well combined
- Add the vanilla essence and custard powder and mix well
- Add the half cup of flour and the extra 2 tablespoon flour if required. I used exactly half a cup of flour plus 2 tablespoon
- Beat the flour into the butter mixture for at least 5 minutes until it is light and creamy, almost like a whipped buttercream
- Drop a teaspoon full of cookie dough onto a the baking sheet. Decorate with a cherry and bake for 10 minutes or slightly longer, until you can smell the cookies. Remove from oven and let it rest for 5 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack. They are delicate so will break easily if removed too soon
- Dust with icing sugar once cool
Notes
- The beating for 5 minutes is necessary for that melt-in-your-mouth texture so do not skip this
- Cookies will appear soft when removed from the oven but they will harden a little once cool
- These cookies works great for kids too, add a little extra flour and the kids can roll them into balls and press them with a fork. Top up with sprinkles