First things first – my recipe of Corn Pancakes - Cachapa got featured at Fiesta Friday #109. I cannot tell you, what an honor it is especially since I see so many great recipes over there every week. Thanks once again to Angie, Josette and Lily for featuring my simple corn pancake recipe 🙂 Onto today’s recipe – Custard Cookies.
I had been planning on making these simple, super tasty cookies since long and one evening, I decided enough is enough and got onto making these. Would you believe if I said it only took me all of 15 mins to make one batch of these delicious cookies?! The cookies turned out to be melt in mouth, soft yet crunchy, utterly butterly and totally awesome – if I say so myself. The vanilla custard powder gives a beautiful color and flavor to the cookies. After the entire family devoured these cookies, I saved a few for my sister and they were also gone in no time. There are some things I would change the next time however, only because I was stupid this time around. In spite of knowing that I should place the cookies not too close to each other, I placed them close before baking. Why you ask? I thought it would be convenient for me to take a pic. Gah. Mid-way through baking, they started melting into each other and that resulted in weird shapes. I am sure some of you can spot a pentagon as well, from my baking tray. Sigh. Also, in my attempts to make them pretty, I pressed them too flat. Don’t repeat the same mistakes I did and check out the notes for more points. Nevertheless, the cookies did turn out great – no proper shapes et al 😀
To make Eggless Custard Cookies
What I used –
- All Purpose Flour, ½ cup
- Vanilla Custard Powder, ¼ cup
- Powdered/Icing Sugar, ¼ cup
- Unsalted Butter, ⅓ cup (at room temperature)
- Vanilla Essence, ¼ tsp
How I made –
1. Preheat the oven at 180°C for 10 mins. Meanwhile in a bowl lightly beat the butter. In another bowl, mix the powdered/icing sugar, all-purpose flour and custard powder. Add half of this dry mixture to the butter. Mix well with a spoon.
2. Soon the mixture would come together. Add the remaining flour mixture and continue to mix well with the spoon. Add the vanilla essence and mix well. The dough would come together in a ball.
3. Line a baking tray with baking sheet. Make equal sized balls of the dough and slightly press them. Use a fork to give an impression and place each cookie with at least 2cm distance in between. Bake at 170°C-180°C for 8-10 mins. When the bottoms seem slightly browning, remove them from the oven. Let them cool down completely – they will harden up.
4. Store in an air tight container.
Note –
- Most of the recipes online called for equal amounts of flour & butter and equal parts of custard powder and powdered sugar. I reduced the quantity of butter and it worked.
- Butter has to be at room temperature. Put it out of fridge for atleast an hour for the dough to come together.
- I used vanilla custard powder but other flavors can be used. If custard powder is not available, add corn flour and increase the quantity of vanilla essence to ¾th
- These cookies tend to spread while baking. Make sure there is enough spacing between each cookie while baking.
- Don’t flatten the cookie like I did. Instead lightly press them and make an impression.
- The cookies on coming out of the oven would be very soft, almost breaking. Don’t disturb them at all as they harden up on cooling down.
- The oven time varies from one oven time to another. Keep an eye on the oven while making these as these can burn in a few seconds.
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I am taking these yumm cookies to Fiesta Friday #110 at Angie's. Hope the co-hosts for this week Jhuls @ The Not So Creative Cook and Apsara @ Eating Well Diary enjoy this 🙂
My Kitchen Area
wow..yummy cookies 🙂
CHCooks
Thanks Anandhi 🙂
Cathy
Looks simply divine!
CHCooks
Thank you Cathy 🙂
lynne hoareau
I love these 🙂 I have the identical recipe 🙂 They are amazing ! They absolutely do melt in your mouth. I haven't made them in quite some time, so am inspired to make them now...like...this weekend 🙂
Yours look lovely and unique by the way, that makes them perfect 🙂 x
CHCooks
Awww thank you so much Lynne 🙂 You are so sweet!
Aruna
Congratulations on being featured at FF #109! 🙂 Great cookies to celebrate with.
CHCooks
Thanks Aruna 🙂
Jhuls
I love custard and I love cookies. These must be so good! 😀 And congrats on being featured, CH! Happy Fiesta Friday. x
CHCooks
Thanks Jhuls 🙂
Osyth
I love this idea and I will certainly make some. I used to make a cake for my daughters using custard powder instead of flour and then slathered with chocolate icing made with golden syrup which drips pleasingly and then sets holding it's shape and the rainbow sprinkles that were compulsary when they were small in a sort of landslide on the top. This is a really lovely more grown up idea that I can share with my husband 🙂
CHCooks
Gosh, you had me drooling at the cake with your description 🙂 Do you have a recipe for it Osyth? I would love to try 🙂
Osyth
I do .... I'll dig it out and share it with you 🙂
CHCooks
Sure 🙂
Freda @ Aromatic essence
These cookies looking great dear! On my never ending to do list too ? Congrats for being featured on FF and winning the pancake challenge too 🙂
CHCooks
Thank you so much dear 🙂
apsara
I have also learned the hard way not to place cookie circles too close to each other while baking, LOL. Great idea to use custard powder here, I'm sure the whole house just smelled great after these were baked. Thank you for sharing at FF!
CHCooks
Nothing like learning the hard way 😀 Thanks for stopping by Apsara 🙂
Cooking For The Time Challenged
This looks great! We have a holiday coming up and this sounds perfect!
CHCooks
Hope you would love it as much as I did 🙂
Cooking For The Time Challenged
I want to try it.♨️
CHCooks
🙂
Chitra Jagadish
Scrumptious cookies Ch..... 🙂 🙂
CHCooks
Thanks dear 🙂
Rose @ Nish Kitchen
These are one of my favorite cookies. Yum!
CHCooks
Thank you Rose 🙂
Lynz Real Cooking
You had me at melt in your mouth--yumm
CHCooks
haha thank you so much 🙂
Lynz Real Cooking
🙂 yumm
CHCooks
Thank you Lynn 🙂
Lynz Real Cooking
🙂
The Girl Next Door
Do you know about Shrewsbury biscuits, that are a Pune specialty? Apparently, Kayani Bakery in Pune makes the best, as does German Bakery. Recenty, while in Pune, we wanted to pick up some Shrewsbury Biscuits from either of these places, but couldn't manage to do that, due to lack of time. We did manage to pick up a packet from the Pune airport kiosk - they were from New Poona Bakery. They tasted super-duper gorgeous!
Shrewsbury biscuits have a wonderful, interesting history too, if you care to read about it.
There are several different versions of Shrewsbury Biscuits - as many versions as there are bakers. Apparently, the first ever ones that were made contained lemon zest. The ones I got from New Poona Bakery, though, contained custard powder, milk powder, and butter, something similar to the cookies you have posted about here. They were light brown in colour, though, and not yellow. I would love to make something similar to those cookies at home some time. Was wondering if you think these (your cookies) are Shrewsbury Biscuits, that's why I imparted all this gyaan here. Pliss to excuse! 🙂
CHCooks
Wow, thanks for taking time to tell me about Shrewsbury cookies TGND. I had no idea about these cookies at all. I am now super intrigued to check them out 🙂 Given your description of the cookies at Pune Airport, I think this recipe would come closer to it though I didnt use milk powder. The reason my cookies are yellow in color is because of the store bought custard powder. If I had just used a bit of vanilla extract and corn flour, I guess the color would have been light brown too 🙂 You should definitely try this out at home, if not for anything but the buttery, vanilla-y fragrance filling the entire house 🙂
Bharani
Yummycilious ......love these..... already made these.... now working on my vegan version...
CHCooks
Looking forward to your vegan version Bharani 🙂