Royal Creams

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 8 ounces butter
• 1/2 cup caster sugar (see note)
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup cornflour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 cup icing sugar
• 2 ounces softened butter
• 1/2 teaspoon almond essence
• pink food coloring (optional)

Recipe

• 1 cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• 2 add eggs and vanilla essence to creamed mixture, beat a little longer (2 minutes or so).
• 3 sift dry ingredients, add to mix and make dough.
• 4 roll and cut small identical sized biscuits, or roll small even-size balls and flatten slightly with hand or use a biscuit-press (which is what i use for these).
• 5 bake at 170°c or 325°f until slightly golden at edges - or lift up the biscuit, if it is light brown under it's done.
• 6 cool on rack.
• 7 once cold sandwich together with 'icing' and sprinkle with castor sugar.
• 8 icing: cream together with mixer.
• 9 note: castor sugar is finer than granulated sugar (in the us look for superfine sugar).