These custard creams are delightfully crispy cookies with a filling of luscious rich butter cream. One bite of these and you will be totally blown away.

Rich cream sandwiched between two buttery crumbly cookies and what a treat it is 🙂 These are my all time favorite growing up from our neighborhood bakery and it was called custard cream biscuits.

Closeup shot of homemade mango flavored custard creams in a white plate

Of all the cream biscuits available, custard creams are my favorite. These cookies or biscuits are so delicious, flavorful and so crispy. These are the best holiday treat you can put up for the kids right after the exams or for house parties. The best kind of cookies with afternoon tea 🙂

These homemade custard cream biscuits are super easy to make, no need for any special equipment and no piping skill required 🙂 Straight from my kitchen to yours 🙂

with very few simple pantry staple ingredients and time you can make these cookies and enjoy:) You can keep this recipe as base and make different flavored cookies as well as cream.

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About This Recipe

What are custard creams?

Custard creams are popular British biscuits from UK. These are tiny crispy, crumbly buttery custard flavored cookies with a rich butter cream filling.

The crunchy biscuits have distinct and delightful custard flavor from the custard powder. I have used Birds custard powder and you can use any of your favorite brand.

Custard powder is essentially a mixture of corn or maize starch, flavoring and sometime milk powder. It is the vegetarian variation for classic custard sauce made with eggs and can be used in making ice creams, fruit custard, French toasts, puddings. In this recipe we are using it for flavor and crispiness.

These biscuits were a fun treat while growing up tp gobble them fresh as soon as they were baked from our local bakery.

You will find so many flavors of custard cream biscuits in bakeries and even in grocery stores. I prefer the homemade ones or from a trusted local baker than the mass produced packs from stores any day.

Out of all the flavor variations I just love mango, pineapple and orange flavored cookies and I am sharing mango flavored ones with you today.

Why This Recipe Works?

These homemade custard biscuits are super easy to make and you can get really creative with flavors and shapes.

This is an eggless recipe and needs no much of prep work. Juts make the cookie dough, chill, bake and use butter icing and fill the cookies. Easy!

This recipe yields one of the finest melt in mouth biscuits that are super crumbly, light and absolutely delicious.

These cookies are excellent option for gifting during holiday season, excellent for Elevensies, afternoon tea, after school snack etc.

I have kept the recipe super simple with minimum ingredients and straight forward steps so that even beginners can also make this with ease.

The recipe is super detailed with step by step instructions, tips tricks and variations.

Do try these tasty homemade custard creams or sandwich biscuit and enjoy! These are

homemade from scratch

super simple to make;

delicate, crumbly and melt in mouth

rich, delicious and flavorful

Delightful treat for children

Fun treat at family gatherings.

rose flavored custard creams stacked in a plate with coffee in the background

Ingredients For Custard Cream Biscuits

Here is a breakdown of ingredients you will need to make custard creams at home.

Butter– softened butter at room temperature is what we need for this recipe. You can use salted or unsalted for cookies but only unsalted for filling. Also use vegan butter if you want to make this recipe vegan. You will need butter for both biscuit and filling.

Sugar– I suggest you use very fine granulated white sugar or caster sugar for biscuits or cookies and icing sugar for the filling.

Flour– plain flour or all purpose flour but you can easily swap it with wheat flour. The biscuits will be a bit dark and dense in texture but tasty.

Custard powder– Use any of your favorite brand. It comes in many flavors you can choose the same flavor as your filling or go for contrast ones like vanilla flavored cookies with chocolate cream or orange cream. I have use vanilla flavored Birds custard powder here.

If custard powder is unavailable simply use corn starch or corn flour instead of it.

Flavoring– I have used vanilla extract for cookies and mango puree for filling.

That’s it. I do not use any baking powder or baking soda here but you can add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda if you prefer.

How To Make Homemade Custard Creams

Begin by beating together butter and sugar along with vanilla in a large mixing bowl until they are light, creamy and fluffy.

Icing sugar and butter in a large bowl for creaming.

You can use your electric beater or stand mixer or a wired whisk for this. Add vanilla and beat together. Using a large bowl cream them well by scrapping the sides as required.

Sift flour custard powder, salt (if using unsalted butter) together in a separate bowl.

sifting flour, custard powder and salt for making custard creams recipe

Add the sifted dry ingredients to the butter sugar mixture and mix well with a wooden spoon.

dry ingredients sifted over the butter sugar mixture

Bring the dough together by adding few 3-4 teaspoons of milk if required. Cover the dough well and refrigerate for 30 minutes to 3 hours.

When you are ready to bake the cookies, preheat your oven at 180C or 350 F. Grease 2 large baking trays with some butter or cooking spray. Alternately you can line the cookie sheets with parchment paper.

Roll the dough into a circle of 1/4 inch thickness. Cutout cookies using a round or any other shaped cookie cutter.

dough rolled out for making custard creams

Arrange in the greased baking tray and prick some holes on the top. I have used two different cutters for 2 batches

Bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes. The cookies will slightly change color. Go by the flavor as these cookies will be soft on removing from oven and turn crispy on cooling. Cool the cookies in a wire rack thoroughly before filling with buttercream.

To make custard creams filling, combine soft salted butter, sugar, vanilla and thick mango pulp in a bowl. Using a electric beater or handheld one, beat until light and creamy.

Ingredients for mango flavored butter cream for custard creams recipe

To assemble the biscuits simply spread some cream on a cookie with a piping bag or palette knife and close with another cookie.

Store these custard cream biscuits in a clean dry jar. They keep well for 3-4 days at room temperature and 2 weeks in refrigerator.

homemade classic custard creams for snack

Variations

Add few drops of rose color or 2 tablespoons rose syrup to the filling for rose flavored custard creams.

Add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder and few drops of chocolate flavor for chocolate flavored cream. It tastes terrific with vanilla cookies.

Pineapple flavored custard creams are a classic and all time favorite.

I even make coffee flavored ones by adding 2 teaspoons instant coffee powder to the cookie dough.

Tips For Making Custard Cream Biscuits

The dough for these are best chilled for at least 30 minutes before baking.

If custard powder is unavailable you can easily use corn starch in this recipe.

If you do not want to roll and cut the cookies, use a teaspoon as measure, remove portions of dough and flatten slightly. You can also use a fork to make patterns.

Storage

These biscuits keep well for 3-4 days at room temperature. You can refrigerate for 2 weeks and freeze for longer time.

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