Custard & white chocolate biscuits
By Mary Cadogan
Cooking time
Prep: 15 mins Cook: 12 mins - 15 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Makes about 25A chocolate chip cookie and custard cream in one - super-simple and they'll keep in the biscuit tin for a fortnight
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
Nutrition per biscuit
- kcalories
- 132
- protein
- 1g
- carbs
- 18g
- fat
- 6g
- saturates
- 4g
- fibre
- 0g
- sugar
- 9g
- salt
- 0.2g
Ingredients
- 140g butter, softened
- 175g caster sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 225g self-raising flour
- 85g custard powder
- 85g white chocolate, chopped into small chunks
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Method
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line 2-3 baking sheets with baking parchment. Put the butter and sugar in a food processor and whizz until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla, and mix well. Sift together the flour and custard powder, then tip into the bowl and pulse to mix into a dough. Scrape out the food processor and work the chocolate in by hand.
- Roll the dough into balls a little smaller than a walnut, then place on the baking sheets, a little apart to allow for spreading. Press each biscuit down lightly with your fingers.
- Bake for 12-15 mins until lightly golden. Remove and cool on a wire rack.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2012
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
i'm a fussy cook/baker and my family are fussy eaters, i wouldnt give this full marks if it truly didnt live up to it! it does!!!! we've made this about 27 times! is a regular and a favourite. they are the absolute best on day 2 and 3. if you're making something to impress people over coffee etc then do these the day before. they look plain and boring maybe but the taste is utterly gorgeous!!!! i've tried custard powder in recipes before and the results have not been very good. this is wonderful though. superbly easy, lob the lot in food processor and then make small balls and squidge flattish onto parchment. simples! ;-) i dont do solely white chocolate chips, i do half those and half either milk choc chips or chocolate coated caramel buttons. they come out floppy from the oven so use a wide palette knife to put on cooling rack, then they firm up when cool of course. also gorgeous served pushed into the side of a few scoops of decent icecream in a small bowl. ;-)
I loved these - great flavour, and the smell when they were in the oven was amazing! It took me about an hour but I haven't baked for a while and have never used a food processor before, although in hindsight I wish I'd had a bigger bowl, as there seemed to be slightly too much for it to cope with. My mixture was quite sticky (and I forgot how big walnuts are meant to be), which made me panic a bit, but I ended up with 29 crispy, golden-brown cookies, so I'm happy.
Just baked these for a group I'll be going to tonight. After reading the comments saying they were very sweet I decided to reduce the sugar content. However, I misread the recipe! So instead of reading 175g, I saw 75g. And I reduced it to 50g! And guess what - they are scrummy! And still rather sweet, actually! I did up the custard powder a bit as I had already cleaned my weighing bowl, so I added about 112g (1.5x75g sachet). But they are delicious, and still really rather sweet!
