Daisy Cookie Cups Amongst Custard Cream

Beautiful as well as delicious flower-shaped cookie cups filled alongside lemony custard cream

Maybe it's the #superbloom as well as the amazing explosion of wild flowers everywhere around to inspire me. Or possibly it's my constant craving for custard cream AND saccharide cookies. Either way, these daisy-shaped cookie cups filled alongside lemony as well as rich custard cream are only wish I need. 
Two of my favorites sweets, all inward the same picture-perfect, spring-inspired dessert. 


Wouldn't these live perfect for your Easter celebration?!? So pretty as well as bright, are a certain means to convey outpouring to your table. 
And if yous don't accept fourth dimension to assay out this recipe earlier Sunday, don't forget Mother's Day is coming correct up. You could surprise as well as print your mom alongside a bouquet of edible flowers. So brand certain to salve upwardly the recipe for later.



These cookie cups are as well as thus fun to make. All yous request is a tartlet or mini-muffin pan as well as a flower-shaped cookie cutter. The alone force a fast i on hither is to discovery the matching sizes. So earlier yous bound inward your apron as well as rev upwardly your mixer, brand certain yous accept the correct tools. 
Measure it upwardly as well as see. 
The blossom cookies request to live large plenty to comprehend the within of the cup, leaving all the petals exterior as well as on top. Make certain to depository fiscal establishment check out my video recipe or step-by-step pictures below.
If yous don't accept a large plenty cutter, yous could ever utilization a rolling pivot as well as curlicue them out i time cutting to brand them slightly bigger if necessary.

The best business office of this recipe is that i time yous larn the trick, the options are limitless. Use your favorite cookie dough, brand into blossom cookies, bake inward the tartlet mold, as well as fill upwardly alongside your favorite cream, mousse or fresh fruit, to brand the prettiest as well as lick-your-fingers delicious dessert yous tin come upwardly up with. 
Here is my recipe for you.


INGREDIENTS:

YIELD: virtually 12 

For the cookie dough:
    • 1 1/2 cups (210 gr) all-purpose flour
    • 1/2 loving cup (100 gr) sugar
    • 4 oz (1 stick, 115 gr) unsalted butter
    • pinch body of body of water salt
    • 1 egg 
    • 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract
    • about 1 tablespoon of milk (if needed)
  1. For the custard cream:
    • 12 fl oz (350 ml) of milk
    • 4 egg yolks
    • 1/2 cups (100 gr) of sugar
    • 2 tablespoons (20 gr) of corn starch
    • 2 tablespoons (20 gr) all-purpose flour
    • zest of 1 lemon
    • 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract 

PREPARATION:

For the cookie dough:
In a nutrient processor, add together the flour, sugar, tabular array salt as well as the butter cutting inward pieces. Pulse a few times until the butter is cutting inward small-scale pieces, as well as it all resemble coarse mixture.
Add the vanilla extract as well as the egg (beat it outset a little).
Pulse until it comes together. If necessary add together i or 2 tablespoons of milk.
Pack the dough into a disc using your manus as well as wrap inward plastic wrap. Refrigerate for one-half hr or longer. You tin fix the dough the solar daytime earlier too, as well as operate out it inward the fridge overnight. If yous do, operate out out on the counter for 10 minutes if it gets also difficult to roll.
Prepare the custard cream: 
Warm upwardly the milk until hot, but non boiling. In a medium size pan, whisk the egg yolks alongside the saccharide until lite as well as fluffy.
Add the corn starch as well as flour. Mix until polish as well as fluffy. 
Add the milk a petty fleck at a time, whisking good as well as thus that no lumps form. Whisk inward the balance of the milk. 
Place the pan over medium oestrus as well as stir continuously until it reaches a dull boil.
Flavor alongside the vanilla extract as well as lemon zest. 
The cream volition thicken, as well as thus live careful non to allow it stick to the bottom. Lower the flaming as well as ready for a couplet of to a greater extent than minutes, until yous accomplish the desired thickness. Pour the cream inward a drinking glass bowl as well as allow it cool down.Cover alongside plastic wrap as well as refrigerate for at to the lowest degree i hour. 
Roll the dough on a build clean surface sprinkled alongside flour.. Make certain the dough doesn't stick to the counter when yous curlicue it, as well as thus flip it as well as motility it around.
Don't brand the dough also sparse particularly if yous request to curlicue out the flowers after cutting (if cookie cutter is also small-scale for your cup).

Cut alongside flower-shaped cookie cutter.
Grease your tartlet mold, as well as gently house the blossom shaped dough, pushing downward inward the middle piece leaving the petals on top. Space them out, as well as thus most probable yous request to operate out one-half of the mold empty (so there's plenty infinite for the blossom petal).

Prick the bottom alongside a fork, and bake at 350°F for virtually 14-15 minutes depending on your pan/oven size. Until slightly golden at the edges.
You mightiness accept to bake inward 2 or three batches. Let the cookie cups cool downward completely.
When ready to serve, fill upwardly alongside the custard cream as well as sprinkle alongside powdered sugar. 
Enjoy :)