My ‘Melting Moments’ With Lemon Cream. Melting moments are similar to a shortbread, but instead of using rice flour, they use corn flour (cornstarch). This results in a similar dry and crisp texture like shortbread, but they are much more melt in the mouth. Traditional melting moments are super buttery and are two cookies joined together with a buttercream filling.. The classic flavour is lemon, as in. Mix softened Butter, Sugar and Custard Powder until smooth and well combined.
Add Plain Flour and Lemon Zest and mix well.
Pistachio Melting Moments with Lemon Cream This year, instead of buying presents for family and friends, I decided to bake Melting Moments for everybody.
I prefer my melting moments with lemon curd however some people put jam or icing between them.
You can have My ‘Melting Moments’ With Lemon Cream using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of My ‘Melting Moments’ With Lemon Cream
- Prepare 250 g of Butter *softened.
- You need 1/2 cup of Icing Sugar.
- You need 1/2 cup of Custard Powder.
- Prepare 2 cups of Plain Flour *1 cup is 250ml.
- It's of Zest of 1 Lemon.
- You need of <Lemon Cream>.
- It's 60 g of (*1/4 of 1 block) Butter *softened.
- Prepare 1 of & 1/2 cups Icing Sugar.
- It's 1 tablespoon of Lemon Juice.
It's up to your tastes I guess. I like the lemon curd as it is more savoury. Melting Moments with Lemon Curd Recipe. . In a mixing bowl cream the butter and icing sugar together.
My ‘Melting Moments’ With Lemon Cream instructions
- Preheat oven to 160℃. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper..
- Mix softened Butter, Sugar and Custard Powder until smooth and well combined. Add Plain Flour and Lemon Zest and mix well. Use your hands to bring the dough together in the bowl..
- Divide the dough in half, so that it would be easier to manage. Roll out the dough on a floured surface until 8mm thick and cut out discs. (*I used 4.5cm round cutter.) Repeat with the remaining dough..
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, swapping trays halfway through cooking. Set aside on the trays for 10 minutes to cool before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely..
- To make Lemon Cream, place all ingredients in a bowl and mix well until smooth..
- Place heaped teaspoonful of Lemon Cream on a cookie and sandwich together..
- *Leftover Lemon Cream: If you ever have leftover Lemon Cream, why don’t you make a mug cake? Add Egg (OR Milk) and mix well, then add Self-Raising Flour to make cake batter. Half fill a mug and cook in the microwave. My microwave cooks in 90 seconds at high power..
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Place a tablespoon of mixture onto greased tray. LEMON CREAM: Beat butter until smooth, gradually add icing sugar. The only difference with melting moments is the use of custard powder in the recipe. In the UK, a particularly popular version of melting moment is made with coconut shavings and a sugar-glazed cherry on top of the cookie.