Posts Tagged icing
Melting Moments
About a year ago, i started making Melting Moments. If you haven’t had one, go out and try one now, because everyone loves these things! I make them fairly often because they’re quick and easy to knock up. This is a recipe i put together after fine tuning a bunch of other recipes into one big super recipe. After all, thats how secret recipes are born, by ‘borrowing’ other recipes and tuning them to your liking!
Anyway, i hope you can make these and i hope they turn out awesome. If you do end up making them, let me know what you think in the comments, along with any suggestions you might have for fine tuning the secret recipe 
Makes 18-20 finished biscuits
Ingredients
- 250g butter, cubed and softened
- 260g (1 3/4 cups) plain flour
- 60g (1/3 cup) icing sugar, sifted
- 60g (1/3 cup) custard powder
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste (or vanilla essence)
Filling
- 150g (2/3 cup) icing sugar, sifted
- 45g butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
Method
- Preheat oven to 150°C and line some baking trays with non-stick baking paper.
- Beat together the sifted icing sugar, butter, and vanilla bean paste in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy. Sift together the flour and custard powder, then add this to the butter/icing sugar mixture and mix on low speed. After a while you’ll see it will form a dough. Roll the dough into small balls. It will help to flour your hands a little because the dough can be a bit sticky. Place the balls on the baking trays about 3cm apart. Once your done making all the balls, grab a fork and then gently press it on top of each to flatten them out a little. This should give you a disc around 3.5cm in diameter and about 1cm thick. Now, bake them in the oven for around 15 minutes or until cooked. I find mine usually need around 17-18 minutes. When they are done, they should be golden underneath and firm to touch. Once they’re cooked, cool them on a wire.
- For the filling, beat the vanilla essence, butter, lemon juice and icing sugar in a small bowl with and electric mixer until creamy. Sometimes my filling is a bit runny, so i sift in a little more icing sugar as i go. Refrigerate the filling until you’re ready to assemble the biscuits.
- To assemble the biscuits, spread the base of one biscuit with filling and then join with another. Now eat them!
