Basic Biscuit Recipe

These are a lovely light basic biscuit recipe. I sandwiched them with some chocolate filling. They are a nice easy biscuit to make and enjoy.

Basic Biscuit Recipe

1 ½ cups self-raising flour
Pinch of salt
½ cup custard powder
½ cup sugar
125g margarine
3 tablespoons rice milk

Chocolate Filling
1 cup icing sugar
2 tbspoons cocoa powder
2 tbspoons margarine
2 tbspoons hot water


Prepare two flat baking trays with baking paper.

Sift flour salt and custard powder into a bowl.

Add sugar

Add butter and rub in with tips of fingers until the mixture is like coarse breadcrumbs

Add milk and mix very firm by hand.

Turn onto a floured board and roll round with hand to coat lightly with flour

Roll out thinly with floured rolling pin.

Cut into desired shapes using a 4cm flutted cookie cutter.

Bake at 160c for 20 minutes

Transfer to a wire rack until cool.


Chocolate Filling
To make chocolate filling sift icing sugar and cocoa powder then combine wet ingredients and stir.