Delices and Gourmandises’filled biscuits

The filled biscuits are one of the little pastries that are appreciated by little and big children. Delices and Gourmandises proposes delicious varieties of filled biscuits. One of them is covered with soft chocolate cream, perfect of tea time and children ‘snacks.

Short story of the filled biscuits by Delices and Gourmandises

Those tender or crispy shortbread biscuits gently filled with a smooth aromatized cream exist for about two centuries. They are presented as little sweet sandwiches proposed in various shapes: round, square, heart-shaped, smiling face, etc. They are sold in France since they were created and, necessarily most of the French children have found them in their snack bags for school some days. Many brands have developed their own recipes. The most popular are those filled with chocolate, strawberry or vanilla cream, but other flavors have their fans too. In several varieties, fruit jellies are used to fill the biscuits instead cream.

A cream filled biscuit recipe form Delices and Gourmandises

Delices and Gourmandises offers you an easy recipe of cream filled chocolate biscuits that you can make at home if you like baking. For 12 round biscuits, prepare a sanded down past biscuits with:

- 100g softened butter
- 125g sugar
- 1 egg
- 1ml vanilla extract
- 100g cocoa powder
- 250g flour
- 2,5g baking powder
- 2g salt
- ¼ cup of milk

For the cream you will need
- 25g softened butter,
- 175g icing sugar,
- 1 spoon of milk,
- 1 drop of vanilla extract

Put all the ingredients in a bowl and use an electric mixer for beating until you have a homogeneous mixture. Put the cream in the fridge for 2 or 3 hours. You can replace the vanilla extract with other fruit extract, fruit jelly or jam.