Powder Puffs

This is  not their true culinary name but when Mum made them , we as children thought they looked like her powder puff that she applied her make up with, they were called Powder Puffs from then on. A light and fluffy little cake filled with cream.

Ingredients

• 125 gm butter
• 110 gm castor sugar
• 1 egg
• 50 gm Plain flour
• 35 gm S.R. flour
• 100 gm cornflour
• 35 gm custard powder

Vienna Cream filling

• 60 gm butter
• 120 gm icing sugar
• 2 teaspoons milk

Method

• Beat butter and sugar in small bowl with an electric mixer till smooth and creamy
• Add the egg and beat only till combined
• Stir in sifted dry ingrdients in two batches
• Spoon mixture into a piping bag with a 1cm tube
• Pipe 3cm diameter rounds onto greased trays, leave room for spreading
• Bake in two batches in a moderately hot oven for 10 minutes or until lightly browned
• Loosen biscuits and cool on trays
• When join with Vienna Cream then dust tops with icing sugar

Vienna Cream

• Beat butter till it is as white as possible
• Gradually beat in half the sifted icing sugar then the milk, then the remaining icing sugar