Yoyos

Perfect Pixie's Note:

My Mummy pleaded with me to make these, her grandma used to make them and she hadn't had them in so long. I took one each for my neighbour and her daughter and they loved them, took them to school and my friends demolished them and it was a fight over the last one. These are a true kiwi recipe, out of the Edmonds cookbook

• Total Time: 35 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 16

• 175 g butter
• ¼ cup icing sugar
• 3 drops vanilla essence (few drops)
• 1 ½ cups flour
• ¼ cup custard powder

Butter Filling

• 50 g butter , softened
• ½ cup icing sugar
• 2 tablespoons custard powder

Directions:

1. pre heat oven to 180 degrees C.
2. cream butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy.
3. add essence.
4. sift flour and custard powder together, fold into creamed mixture.
5. roll teaspoonfuls of mixture into balls.
6. place on oven tray, gently flatten with a floured fork (not to hard, you still want a thick cookie and it does not rise when baking).
7. bake for 15-20 minutes, when cold sandwich together in pairs with butter filling.
8. to make butter filling:.
9. beat all ingredients until well combined.

Reviews

[livefit]

These are great! So easy to make - I had very very soft butter which made it easier to mix. Yummo! Will need to go for a long run now to work them off!!

[Missy Wombat]

This was a good recipe to make with my 7 year old. I helped by providing extra muscle as the dough must be creamed properly. Well worth the effort.

[tinctoria]

These were really nice! I did have to add a bit more butter than in the recipe though, as the mix was very crumbly.