Custard Creams

Name: Custard Creams
Cuisine: Scottish
Ingredients: zest of 1 lemon; 2 tsp lemon juice; ½ tsp vanilla extract; pinch of salt; 200 g icing sugar; 100 g butter, softened; 50 g custard powder; 175 g plain flour; 50 g icing sugar; 175 g butter, softened

Preparation info

Makes
20

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

About

These traditional biscuits might seem rather old-fashioned, but they taste so much better than the shop-bought variety. Lovely and buttery, they keep very well in a tin until you are ready to stick them together with icing.

Ingredients

175 g butter, softened
50 g icing sugar
175 g

United Kingdom
Cookies
Vegetarian
Scotland

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C/150°C fan/gas mark 3. Grease a baking tray with butter.
In a bowl, cream together the softened butter and icing sugar, then add the flour, custard powder, vanilla extract and salt and mix to get a stiff dough.
Roll t