Custard Creams

Name: Custard Creams
Yield: Makes 10
Ingredients: 120g all-purpose flour; 40g custard powder; 35g powdered sugar; ¼ teaspoon baking soda; 120g unsalted butter, cubed, at room temperature; 120g unsalted butter, at room temperature; 90g powdered sugar; ½ teaspoon vanilla paste

By Tom Parker Bowles

March 18, 2021

filled shortbread sandwich cookies next to a cup of tea

Photo by David Loftus

These are a very delicate take on a classic English sandwich cookie, and quite fragile too, which is why you need the piping bag. They are pure edible nostalgia.

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