Melting Moments and Chocolate Butter Cream

So our twin group get together has come around again and after several weeks of making kiddie fun food I wanted to make something that the Mamas could enjoy as well. I knew my week was going to be a hectic one so it had to be something uber delicious but with very little effort so I decided on melting moments.

I love melting moments, I think it's all that butter! It's also slightly magical the way the biscuit just crumbles and melts that makes it so much fun to eat.

I had a recipe that made the most stellar biscuits but I lost it. It was scribbled on a piece of paper that is normally tucked in a cook book but it's gone. I am terrible disorganised in the way I have my recipes kept. Some are scribbled on pages within cookbooks, some are just torn bits of paper from note pads and none are in a folder or any kind of smart system. I'm just chaos and one day I will get around to making my cooking life easier. But until then this recipe from taste.com.au will have to do. It's delicious.

Melting Moments with Chocolate Butter Cream

250g butter (room temperature)
1/3 cup icing sugar (sifted)
1 and 3/4 cup plain flour
1/3 cup cornflour
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Chocolate Butter Cream
65g butter (softened)
2/3 cup icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 heaped tablespoon cocoa powder

1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees and line a couple of baking trays with baking paper.

2. Beat the butter, icing sugar and vanilla essence until fluffy and pale and creamy.

3. Sift the flour and cornflour into it and mix on low until well incorporated and a crumbly soft dough forms.

4. With your floured hands roll small balls and place them on lines tray about 5cm apart. Dip your fork into the flour and flatten the balls into a flat but not too thin biscuit.

5. Bake for 15 minutes. Don't bake too long as you want to retain the pale colour of the biscuit and baking too long will make the edges brown. Cool on tray before putting icing.

6. To make chocolate butter cream simply add all ingredients and mix well.

7. When biscuits are completely cool put chocolate cream on one half and sandwich with another biscuit.