Print

Nana Grace's Yo Yo's

My mum was an amazing cook, anything she turned her hand to was always delicious. Her Yo Yo biscuits/cookies never lasted long, so it was always such a treat when she baked them.

Category: Baking, Snacks

Style: Australian

Keyword: Biscuits, Christmas Cookies, Mum's Recipes, Yo-Yo, Yo-Yos

Author: sbaskitchen

Ingredients

• 225 g / 8 oz butter
• 115 g / 4 oz custard powder
• 115 g / 4 oz icing sugar
• 2 - 2 1/2 cups plain flour

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 160˚C/320˚F (fan-forced).
2. Line two baking trays with baking paper.

3. Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.

4. Add sifted dry ingredients and mix to a dough like consistency.
5. Roll teaspoonfuls of the dough into small balls and place on the prepared baking trays, leaving room for a little spreading.

6. Use a fork to gently flatten (dip the fork into some plain flour every now and then to prevent it from sticking to the biscuit).

7. Bake in preheated oven 15-20 minutes.
8. Join together with a little icing (see note below).

Notes

While many choose to join their Yo Yo's together with a butter icing, we always made a simple icing using icing sugar, a small piece of butter, probably about half to one teaspoonful, a little vanilla, and just enough boiling water to mix to a nice consistency.

The instructions for the recipe in mum’s recipe book were limited…

Cream butter and sugar add sifted dry ingredients roll into small balls & place on slide press with fork.  Join with butter icing and roll in castor sugar.

 I have expanded the instructions a little and you will see from my note in the recipe that we didn’t use a soft butter icing, and we don’t roll the biscuits in caster sugar, as guided by my mum.