Easy Jam Biscuits

These delightful little biscuits go down a treat, wonderful for afternoon tea or kiddies parties. But it won't be long before you are making more as they don't last very long ---

everybody loves them.

Ingredients:
80g butter at room temperature
80ml caster sugar
30ml milk
2ml vanilla extract
250ml flour
5ml baking powder
80ml custard powder
strawberry jam

Method:
Preheat the oven to 180C. Line 2 baking sheets with baking paper.

Cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until the mixture is light and creamy. Add the milk and vanilla extract and beat until well combined. Add the custard powder and flour a little at a time, folding in until all is blended together with the butter mixture and you have a soft dough.

Taking a heaped tablespoonful of dough, roll it into a little ball and place it on a baking sheet. Press the end of a wooden spoon into the center of each to make a small indentation, making sure it does not go all the way through the dough. Fill the indentation with strawberry jam. Repeat the process until all the dough is used up. Make sure there is enough space between each dough-ball for it to spread.

Bake in the oven for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow them to cool slightly on the tray before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.