This week, Roy wanted to create some delicious afternoon tea biscuits for some friends who were coming around. One of his favourite types of biscuits are melting moments and he wanted to share the recipe. These biscuits are similar to radio biscuits (or yoyos) but have a delicious citrusy filling. Traditionally, they are sandwiched together with a citrus butter icing, but Roy likes a lighter icing made with a little less butter (and for a warm Australian afternoon, the icing is more reliable!) So this week, Roy Creates Melting Moments.
You Will Need:
- 180 grams of plain flour
- 180 grams of soft butter or margarine
- 60 grams of custard powder
- 60 grams of icing sugar. If you use pure icing sugar, you will need to sift it because you don't want lumps.
Icing:
- 3 tablespoons of icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon of butter or margarine
- The finely grated rind and juice of half a lemon (or enough to make the icing a good consistency). Roy chose to use a little lemon oil to boost the flavour of the icing. You could also use lemon essence.
- Optional: A drop or two of yellow food colouring
Method:
- Cream the butter and sugar. You don't really need electric beaters for this. In fact, they probably weren't invented when this recipe was first made! Just make sure your butter is soft and use a wooden spoon.
- Add the flour and custard powder to the butter mix, and beat it in. You want a soft, smooth dough.
- Now, you will be rolling the dough with your hands, so make sure they are clean! Take small lumps and roll them into balls (Roy uses about a teaspoon of dough at a time).
- Put the balls onto a prepared baking tray and gently squish them with a fork. You want to have an even number of biscuits because you will be sandwiching two together.
- Bake for about 20 minutes. They should be a pale yellow and don't worry about the orange flecks - it's the custard powder.
- Put the biscuits onto a rack and let them cool completely.
- Cream together the icing sugar and butter. Add the lemon rind, lemon juice and, if you are using it, the yellow food colouring.
- Spread a little icing on one side of half the biscuits and gently press a second biscuit on top. A little twist helps the icing be distributed evenly
- Allow the icing to set, serve and enjoy. You can sprinkle the biscuits with icing sugar if you like before serving.