Canary Creams
Canary Creams are an invention of Fred and George's for their wizard joke shop. Make your own at home with a shortbread cookie and filling.
Servings 10 cookies
Calories 214kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
Cookies
- 12 tbsp butter softened
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup custard powder substitute cornstarch if needed
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
Filling
- 2 tbsp butter softened
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 drops yellow food coloring
- 1/2 tsp milk
Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 350F
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter with a stand mixer or electric hand mixer
- Add the powdered sugar and cream for about 3 minutes
- Mix in the vanilla extract
- In a medium mixing bowl, sift together the flour, custard powder (or cornstarch), and baking soda
- Slowly mix the dry ingredients into the creamed butter mixture until a dough forms
- Lightly flour a clean working surface and roll the dough out to 1/2" thickness
- Use a biscuit cutter or cookie cutters to make cookies
- Continue to make shapes by rolling the dough out multiple times as needed until all of the dough is used
- Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes, until they start to get brown
- Transfer to a cooling rack
Filling
- While cookies cool, cream the butter with a mixer
- Add in the powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and yellow food coloring
- Add the milk, as needed, if the filling is too thick
Prepare Canary Creams
- Put the filling in a piping bag and pipe onto half of the cookies
- Top the cream with the remaining half of the cookies to form sandwiches
Nutrition
Calories: 214kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 37mg | Sodium: 147mg | Potassium: 22mg | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 415IU | Calcium: 7mg | Iron: 0.7mg