The custard cream - like many other biscuits - was a product of the industrial revolution. She explained her theory: “Custard powder was made by a chemist, Alfred Bird, whose wife was allergic ...

Custard creams The smell of these cute little biscuits put me at ease immediately - a gentle scent of vanilla body wash and ice cream drifted towards me and I breathed a sigh of relief.

Fans have gone wild over the latest edition of the iconic British biscuits. Sainsbury's is selling the all-new Hot Cross Bun flavoured Custard Cream biscuits for just 65p. Bargain hunters and ...

It's sweet but perfectly balanced by savory biscuits, a bit of whipped cream ... In the case of the Grand Lady, it's a fluffy custard cream. A great convenience is that you can use ready-made ...

Dust a clean work surface with flour and roll out the dough to the thickness of 7.5mm/⅓in. Use a 6.5cm/2½in round cutter to cut out biscuits. Collect the off-cuts, roll again and cut out more ...

Sprinkle over crushed ratafia biscuits and level gently with the back of a metal spoon. 4 Carefully pour over the custard. 5 Decorate with blobs of softly whipped cream and sprinkle with flaked ...

This year, M&S has brought out a giant, chocolate egg versions of customers' favourite biscuits - their 'outrageously chocolately' biscuit and 'outrageously chocolately' custard cream. One ...