Four ingredient custard cookies
Simple and easy melt-in-your-mouth cookies made with custard powder
Ingredients
- 35 grams or 1/4 cup custard powder
- 75 grams or 1/3 cup salted butter at room temperature
- 90 grams or 3/4 cup all purpose flour or maida
- 30 grams or 1/4 cup icing sugar or powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract optional
- Pinch of salt if using unsalted butter
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 C / 350 F. Grease a cookie sheet with butter or line with parchment.
- In a bowl, mix together well or whisk the flour, icing sugar and custard powder (with salt if using).
- Add the butter (and vanilla if using) , mix together until a soft dough forms. You can use your hands to bring the dough together.
- Divide the dough into equal sized balls (about 2 cm diameter).
- Place on cookie sheet and press down slightly with a fork to make lines on the cookie. You can press the fork down again in the other direction to form the crisscross pattern.
- Bake for 16- 20 minutes until the cookies are firm. The edges may slightly brown and the bottom will turn a light brown.
- Cool on the cookie sheet for a couple of minutes and then completely on wire rack.
Notes
This recipe makes 20 cookies of about 4 cm diameter. You can double the recipe if you wish.
The cookies do not spread much so can be placed on the cookie sheet with only an inch or so gap between them.
If using salted butter , taste the final dough and add more icing sugar if you want . Some brands of butter have more salt than others.
The cookies do not spread much so can be placed on the cookie sheet with only an inch or so gap between them.
If using salted butter , taste the final dough and add more icing sugar if you want . Some brands of butter have more salt than others.