Yo-Yo Biscuits

Delicious, fine texture, buttery biscuits join together with sweet lemony butter cream or chocolate butter cream. Sometimes called Melting Moments here in Australia.

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Yields: 12 biscuits

Ingredients

• For biscuits

• 185  g butter, softened
• 75  g icing sugar
• 225  g plain flour
• 75  g  custard powder or 75  g cornstarch
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract

• For butter cream

• 130  g butter, softened
• 165  g icing sugar
• 1  teaspoon lemon juice
• 1  teaspoon lemon zest

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 170°C.
2. Cream butter and icing sugar until light. Add sifted flour and custard powder. Mix well until forms into smooth dough.
3. Roll dough into logs and cut it up into small pieces same size about 30g each.You should have about 24 pieces.
4. Form into balls and place on tray and press with a fork.
5. Bake for about 15 minutes. They should be very pale almost no color.
6. Tip: Don't over bake them they will be dry.
7. For butter-cream:
8. With electric mixer whip the softened butter with icing sugar until light and fluffy. Add lemon juice and zest and more or less up to your taste.
9. When biscuits are cooled join together with butter cream.
10. Tip: If you prefer chocolate butter cream omit lemon juice and zest and add 2 tablespoons cocoa powder and 1tsp. vanilla extract.