Cookies & biscuits · Original adaptation
Vanilla Custard Sandwich Biscuits Recipe
Crisp custard-powder biscuits paired with a simple vanilla buttercream for an approachable home version of the week's technical idea.
Inspired by The Great British Bake Off, Season 14, Episode 2
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Vanilla Custard Sandwich Biscuits
- Prep
- 35 min
- Bake
- 14 min
- Total
- 49 min
- Makes
- 12 sandwich biscuits
Ingredients
- 175 g plain flour
- 40 g custard powder
- 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
- 140 g unsalted butter, softened
- 70 g caster sugar
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 75 g unsalted butter, softened, for the filling
- 130 g icing sugar, sifted
- 1 tablespoon whole milk
Method
Whisk the flour, custard powder, and salt together. In a second bowl, beat 140 g butter and the caster sugar until smooth, then beat in the egg yolk and half the vanilla.
Mix in the dry ingredients just until a dough forms. Flatten into a disc, wrap, and chill for 30 minutes.
Heat the oven to 180 C, or 160 C fan, and line two baking sheets. Roll the dough to 4 mm thick and cut 24 rounds with a 5 cm cutter.
Arrange the rounds on the sheets, prick each once with a fork, and chill for 10 minutes. Bake for 12 to 14 minutes until the edges are pale gold, then cool completely.
Beat the filling butter with the icing sugar, milk, and remaining vanilla until light. Pipe or spread the filling over 12 biscuits and top with the remaining biscuits.
Before you start
- This is an original Baking Show Guide home adaptation inspired by the challenge brief, not a contestant recipe or an official show recipe.
- The straightforward buttercream avoids the hot-syrup filling used in the televised technical and is better suited to a casual home bake.
- Keep the unfilled biscuits airtight for up to four days; fill them on the day they will be served for the crispest texture.
From the episode
Biscuits
This adaptation starts from the episode's biscuits brief and reshapes it for ordinary home equipment and a manageable batch.
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The sources below document the episode challenge. The quantities and method on this page are independently written by Baking Show Guide; they are not copied from a contestant or broadcaster recipe.
