Thank you orange custard cream star biscuits

It was my birthday party last night. I was spoilt rotten. To say thank you to all my kalgoorlie friends I made them these star biscuits. Recipe adapted from Nigella's Custard Cream Hearts from Feast.

Makes 22 full biscuits (I doubled it to make 45)

Biscuits

175g Plain flour

3 tbsp custard powder

1 tsp baking powder

100g butter

3 tbsp caster sugar

1 egg

1 tbsp milk, plus extra to bind

Preheat the oven to 180C. In a food processor whizz up the flour, custard powder and baking powder. Then add the butter - chopped into lumps. Whizz until it looks like breadcrumbs. Add the sugar. Whizz again for 10 seconds or until incorporated.

Whisk together the egg and milk. With the motor running pour down the spout of the processor. Add gradually and stop when the mixture forms into a ball. Add more milk as required.

Plonk the dough on gladwrap, wrap up tightly and put it in the fridge to rest for 20 minutes (or until you have done the washing up!).

Roll out the dough to 4mm thick on a well floured table. Cut out your shapes and place onto a tray lined with glad bake. Re-form the off-cuts and roll again. Bake for 15 minutes or until just cooked. Do not let them get brown.

Sandwich two biscuits together with the orange custard cream.

Orange Custard Cream

1 tbsp custard powder

100g icing sugar

Finely grated zest of one orange

50g butter

boiling water - to bind

Whizz up the icing sugar, custard powder and zest in a food processor - this will break up any lumps. Add the butter and whizz again until smooth. Add boiling water slowly until it reaches desired spreading consistency. Mine didn't need any water.