After making custard creams last year it has always been my intention to adapt the recipe to make the long-gone biscuit Coffee Cream.
Coffee Creams were the biscuits that could only ever be found in the festive Foxs (or was it Jacobs) biscuit tins given to you by Grandma for Christmas. As I love anything coffee flavoured I always snaffled them up, but not before I had sampled all the other biscuits (especially the posh Jammy Dodgers) first. As any coffee lover will tell you, coffee flavoured sweets/biscuits/cakes are not loved by everyone and are more often than not left till last. This is when us coffee lovers swoop and have our last coffee hit.
Now after a bit of experimentation I admit I've sorted the icing, but haven't got the biscuit dough quite right and no I know they don't look like the originals. The biscuits are delicious in their own right, but don't taste exactly like the hallowed Coffee Creams. Although I put coffee in the biscuit dough you can't taste it. I'm going to work on the recipe and try and get it closer to the flavour I remember. I also need to work on extracting a stronger coffee extract. Any tips?
Coffee Creams
Makes 8 coffee cream sandwiches
For the biscuits
175g/6oz plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
100g unsalted butter, cubed
3 tbsp caster sugar
1 egg
1 tbsp strong coffee
For the coffee cream
100g icing sugar
50g unsalted butter, softened
1 tsp strong coffee
1) Preheat oven to 180oc (160oc fan). For the biscuits mix flour and baking powder. Add butter and rub until you get a crumble like texture. Beat coffee into egg in separate cup. Add sugar then gradually beat in egg/coffee mix (you may not need all the egg) until you have a soft dough. Wrap dough in clingfilm and rest in fridge for 20 min.
2) Roll dough to around 4mm and use cutter to cut out round. Place on lined baking tray and bake for 15 min. Cool on rack before sandwiching them.
3) To make coffee cream, beat together icing sugar and butter until you have a cream. Add coffee and beat again until you have a smooth coffee cream.
4) Sandwich each biscuit with about 1 tsp of coffee cream.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Coffee Creams - mk1
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Ooh they sound & look fabulous! I love anything coffee flavoured too, and in biscuit form even better! Definately snagging these!
ReplyDeleteMmmm Jules, these look worth a long car journey for!
ReplyDeleteI love coffee flavoured things too. Coffee flavour Revels... Can't stand it when you bite into an orange one. Why can't you buy coffee flavoured sweets anymore? Perhaps we need to look at that...
I did buy some coffee flavour biscuits in Waitrose recently but they would fail miserably in any coffee tasting contest.
These look great! I've had custard creams on my 'to bake' list for ages now but these are a cool variation. Maybe you could add some camp coffee powder (I think that's what it's called?!) to the dough to get more coffee flavour? Or maybe a darker sugar which will add a different sweetness, a 'darker' sweetness closer to sweet coffee?
ReplyDeleteMmm they look delicious! Custard creams have been on my Biscuit Mission for a while and I can't wait to try them.
ReplyDeleteVery delicious .I am a really coffee in food fan , though never drink it .Keep meaning to make some coffee and walnut cake
ReplyDeleteYum! I love anything coffee-flavored, as well.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you can try espresso powder? This is the stuff I have in my pantry: http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/pDetail.asp?p=230
mmm they look good. I also love those coffee iced biscuits you sometimes get, German I think.
ReplyDeleteOver on Chowhound there is a short thread suggesting you make coffee extract by steeping it overnight in cold water to reduce acidity and increase smoothness - might be worth a go. The link is: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/502443.
ReplyDeleteAnd your post has got me thinking to whether home made bourbon biscuits could be interesting (I know they are easy to buy but where's the challenge in that!)......
Anne - Glad I'm not the only coffee lover. Hubby hates the stuff.
ReplyDeleteAmanda - mmmmmmmm coffee Revels. Did they get rid of the coffee ones?
Mark - I never thought of using Camp coffee or a darker sugar. I'll have to try that next time.
Lucy - the custard creams are great to make...and taste so good!
Girl Interrupted Eating - I also mean to make that cake. My Aunt used to make a fab one.
quincyxarcher - I'll have to look out for espresso powder.
MsMarmitelover - I love those biscuits too.
goodshoeday - thank you for the chowhound link. Now boubons, I'll have to try them!
Love the sound and look of these biscuits!
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Maria - Thank you :)
ReplyDeleteThese would be dangerous in my house!
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