Yo Yo Biscuits Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 170°C.
• Cream butter and icing sugar until light. Add sifted flour and custard powder. Mix well until forms into smooth dough.
• Roll dough into logs and cut it up into small pieces same size about 30g each.You should have about 24 pieces.
• Form into balls and place on tray and press with a fork.
• Bake for about 15 minutes. They should be very pale almost no color.
• Tip: Don't over bake them they will be dry.
• For butter-cream:.
• With electric mixer whip the softened butter with icing sugar until light and fluffy. Add lemon juice and zest and more or less up to your taste.
• When biscuits are cooled join together with butter cream.
• Tip: If you prefer chocolate butter cream omit lemon juice and zest and add 2 tablespoons cocoa powder and 1tsp. vanilla extract.

Steps:

• Cream the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy; add the sifted self-raising flour and custard powder and mix to a firm dough; fold in the slivered almonds (if using).
• Taking a teaspoonful of the mixture, roll into balls and place onto a baking paper lined oven tray; press lightly with the back of a fork (see TIP below) and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C/350°-375°F/4-5 gas mark for 10-12 minutes.
• Make the butter cream by beating the butter and icing sugar together until the mixture is light and fluffy; add 1-2 drops of food colouring (if using) to make the cream pale pink; join the biscuits together with butter cream.
• TIP: When making the pattern with the fork, dip the fork in plain flour to prevent it sticking to the biscuit mixture.