Easy bake melting moments are a quick and simple bake. We've filled ours with buttercream and passion fruit curd for a sharp twist.
Easy bake melting moments are a classic biscuit. These biscuits are not only simple to bake but they look impressive. Best of all you can fill them with your choice of flavours or just dip them in chocolate! Melting moments are simple shortbread type biscuits, usually filled with vanilla buttercream.
Filling the biscuits:
As well as the vanilla buttercream, we decided to add some homemade blackberry curd to add some sharpness and balance out the sweetness. You could also add some lemon zest to the buttercream and substitute the blackberry curd, for either passion fruit or lemon curd instead. Whilst we have made the curd fresh, a shop bought curd would work really well. If filling be sure to leave to cool, otherwise you will melt the buttercream filling.
You can also dip the biscuits in chocolate before sandwiching together with the butter cream. For a chocolate orange twist add some orange zest to the buttercream and add some orange curd in place of the blackberry. They look like they've taken a lot of effort but are one of the most simple bakes we have on our blog.
These biscuits are not that dissimilar to custard creams, without the yellow hue from the custard powder. A great bake for young children keen on getting into the kitchen. Just make sure you space them well in the oven as they do expand a bit when you bake them. Once the dough is made you can roll into small balls and press down gently with a fork. However if you want a prettier shaped biscuit pop the dough into an icing bag fitting with a star shaped nozzle. If you want to make them look extra special, you can paint some red food colouring down the inside of the piping bag. The result is simple but effective, a pretty two tone biscuit.
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Some other simple bakes to try:
If you like this recipe try our Simple Custard Creams our Chocolate Tiffin, our Chocolate & Hazelnut Cookies, our Chocolate & Pecan Brownies or our Tweed Squares Traybake. All easy straight forward bakes for children that require just a little supervision. If you enjoyed this bake have a look at our Ultimate Guide to Baking with Kids, full of great recipe suggestions for baking with children.
Melting Moments
Ingredients
Biscuits
- 250 g unsalted butter (softened)
- 60 g icing sugar (sifted)
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 250 g plain flour
- 50 g cornflour
Filling
- 125 ml milk (full fat preferably)
- 2 tablespoon plain flour
- 125 g caster sugar
- 125 g unsalted butter (softened)
- 4 tablespoon fruit curd
Instructions
Biscuits
- In a mixer beat together the butter and icing sugar until soft and fluffy. Add vanilla extract and continue to mix. Next add the sifted flour and cornflour and mix together until smooth. This will be a fairly thick consistency.
- At this stage you can form into balls on place on lightly greased baking sheet and press down with a fork to flatten or alternatively to achieve the look in the photo prepare a piping bag with a star shaped tip on the end. If you want to be decorative, you can paint strips of a paste/gel food colouring of your choice in the bag before adding the mixture. This gives the two-tone colour in the photo. Pipe onto the baking sheet in a circle to form a biscuit of your choice of size. You don't want them too large and they will be sandwiched together, about 4-5cm is good.
- Chill the biscuits for about 15 minutes in the fridge before baking so they hold their shape in the oven. Bake at 180C (160C fan) for about 12 minutes. You want them only to be a pale golden colour. Let rest on baking tray for 5 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.
Filling
- For the filling, heat the milk and flour in a small pan, whisking constantly until it reaches boiling and thickens. Cook until the flour is cooked out. Remove from heat. Take a piece of cling film and place directly on top of the mixture to stop a film from forming. Allow to cool completely.
- Once the flour mixture has cooled, beat together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add the flour mixture and continue to beat until light and creamy. Add half of the fruit curd and continue to beat together.
- Finally, take half the biscuits and add a small amount of the remaining fruit curd either with a spoon or piping bag. On the other half of the biscuits pipe the filling. Once all biscuits are topped place them together, one half filling and the other half passion fruit curd. Serve.
- These biscuits have a short shelf life and should be eaten within a couple of days, otherwise they loose their crispness and become soft.
Notes
• Please note that the nutrition information provided above is approximate and meant as a guideline only •
Jacqui : Only Crumbs Remain says
Oh wow these look amazing. I’ve just made blackcurrant cord it would be perfect for these
Michelle says
Jacqui sorry your comment got put into our spam! Thanks, I do love blackcurrants. I made all jelly this year and gutted I didn't save a little bit for some curd! Cheers, Michelle