Custard biscuits
These delicious custard biscuits with white chocolate are a great bake for little kids. There’s no need for rolling pins or cutters, simply get your hands messy and roll them out by hand.
Custard biscuits are a tasty homemade version of my favourite biscuit – the classic custard cream.
The custard powder makes them deliciously soft and melt in the mouth (like all good biscuits should be). And we’ve added some white chocolate chips to make them an extra bit special – they’re almost a cross between a custard cream and a white chocolate chip cookie.
If I could eat a biscuit every day, i’d probably choose these. Or, you can find our recipe for custard creams.
How can kids help make custard biscuits?
These custard biscuits are a fun bake for kids to make and are a great way of getting you and your kid’s hands a bit messy. Once you’ve measured out the ingredients and mixed them together to form your cookie dough, you simply roll little balls of dough with your hands.
My kids always love getting to make things with their hands – it’s a great tactile experience for kids of all ages. It also means you don’t need any special equipment like rolling pins or cookie cutters to make these.
I find custard powder, like when I bake with icing sugar, can get a little messy. It’s definitely worth it (when you try these i’m sure you’ll agree), just make sure you have a cloth or some wet wipes handy to wipe up any mess!
Other white chocolate recipes
If you liked this white chocolate cheesecake, you’ll love some of our other white chocolate recipes:
Raspberry and white chocolate cookies
White chocolate chip cookies
Raspberry and white chocolate brownies.
White chocolate and raspberry cheesecake
White chocolate fudge
White chocolate millionaires shortbread
Difficulty: Medium
Time: 40 minutes + 15 minutes baking
Serves: Makes 18 biscuits
Ingredients
175g (3/4 cup) caster sugar
140g (1/2 cup) butter
1 egg
½ tsp vanilla extract
225g (1 3/4 cups) self raising flour*
85g (2/3 cup) custard powder
85g (1/2 cup) white chocolate, chopped into small chunks
* If you don’t have self-raising flour, use 1 3/4 cups of all-purpose or plain flour plus 2 tsp of baking powder.
How to make the white chocolate biscuits
Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan / 350F and prepare your baking trays.
Get your toddler to put baking paper down on 2-3 baking sheets. I find these biscuits spread a bit in the oven so the more space you have to spread them out the better.
Mix the sugar and butter
Get your child to help measure out the sugar (175g) into a bowl, and add to a stand mixer or large mixing bowl.
Measure the butter (140g) and chop into a few small pieces before adding to the bowl. It’s easier to mix if you use slightly softened butter (leave it out the fridge for a while before you use it or pop it in the microwave for a few seconds, but not enough to melt it). In addition, the softer the butter the easier it is for your toddler to practice their cutting with a blunt knife – one of Lewis’ favourite things to do!
Mix the butter and sugar together until it looks light and fluffy.
Add the egg and vanilla extract
Get your toddler to crack the egg into a separate bowl before adding it, into the sugar/butter mixture. If you are doing this yourself or your child is a bit older you might want to add the egg straight in but I find it’s easier to fish out stray shell from a separate bowl though if any makes it in when the kids crack eggs! If this does happen, simply fish it out with a larger piece of shell, (shell sticks to shell better than your fingers.)
Add the vanilla extract. My kids like to hold the measuring spoons while I pour in the vanilla as younger kids probably don’t have the coordination to do it all themselves.
Sieve in the flour and custard
Weigh out the flour (225g) and custard powder (85g) then add to your mixture. You can use a sieve here if you want, although if your little one is anything like mine it might just add to your mess! If you don’t want the extra mess, just add the flour and custard powder straight in without sieving it – the biscuits will still be delicious!
Pulse your mixture together (ie mix it slowly and not too much) until it comes together into a bit of a dough.
Add the chocolate
Add the white chocolate chips or chop the chocolate (85g) into small chunks, then get your toddler to add it into your biscuit dough. Stir them in with a spoon/spatula or by hand.
Form the custard biscuits
You and your toddler can do this bit together: grab little bits of your biscuit dough and roll them into balls. They are supposed to be about the size of a walnut but I think ours always end up a little bit bigger … It doesn’t really matter, as long as they are all roughly the same size and you keep an eye on the oven when they’re baking. I find it works better if I get the right amount of cookie dough and then give that to my kids to roll, otherwise the sizes aren’t very consistent.
Place them on the baking sheets, a little apart as they’ll spread in the oven. Press each biscuit down lightly with your fingers so they end up slightly squashed balls.
Bake your custard biscuits
Bake your biscuits for 12-15 minutes until they are a light golden brown colour. If yours have ended up a little uneven in size, just keep an eye on them in the oven and move your baking sheets around if you have to.
Remove your custard and white chocolate biscuits from the oven and leave them to cool on their baking trays for a few minutes before popping them on a wire rack to cool completely.
Custard biscuits
Ingredients
- 140 g butter
- 175 g caster sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 225 g self raising flour
- 85 g custard powder
- 85 g white chocolate chopped into small chunks
Instructions
Pre-heat the oven to 180C/160C fan and line some baking trays with baking paper
Mix the sugar and butter
- Measure out your sugar into a bowl, or mixer if you’re using one. Measure the butter and chop into a few small pieces before adding to the bowl.
- Mix together until they look light and fluffy.
Add the egg and vanilla extract
- Crack the egg into a separate bowl before adding it, along with the vanilla, into the sugar/butter mixture.
Sieve in the flour and custard
- Weigh out the flour and custard powder then add to your mixture. Pulse your mixture together (ie mix it slowly and not too much) until it comes together into a bit of a dough.
Add the chocolate
- Chop the chocolate into small chunks then add it into your biscuit dough. Stir them in with a spoon or by hand.
Form the custard and white chocolate biscuits
- Grab little bits of your biscuit dough and roll them into balls (about the size of a walnut).
- Place them on the baking sheets, a little apart as they’ll spread in the oven. Press each biscuit down lightly with your fingers so they end up slightly squashed balls.
Bake
- Bake for 12-15 minutes until they are lightly golden.
- Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
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Stephanie says
My kids love these but is there a way to make them without egg? allergies currently stop the whole family from enjoying them
cookingwithmykids says
The egg will be binding it together so you could try swapping it out for a bit of milk to bring the dough together. Best wishes, Helen
MMT says
I am definitely going to give these a try with the mouse! She loves a bit of midweek baking and we have no plans tomorrow!
Thanks for sharing with #CoolMumClub
cookingwithmykids says
Great, let us know how you get on!
Angela / Only Crumbs Remain says
These sound so good Helen! One of my favourite biscuits is a custard cream, and I can just imagine how good these must be with the whicte chocolate chips! Serious Yum! I love seeing your little ones helping out baking – they’ll be appearing on Junior Bake Off before we know it 🙂 Thankyou for sharing with #BakingCrumbs,
Angela x
cookingwithmykids says
Thanks. I used to make these all the time so it was nice to revisit them. I don’t think I’ll leave it so long next time!
Jo Allison / Jo's Kitchen Larder says
These are so nice and simple and looking delicious! Perfect rainy (or sunny lol) day bake with the kids! My youngest who just started school last week would go bananas for these. Will have to make them as our little after school or weekend baking session. Thank you for sharing with #BakingCrumbs 🙂