Yoyos Recipes

YO-YO BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 160 degrees celsius (fan-forced).
• Line two baking trays with baking paper.
• Sift the icing sugar into a large bowl.
• Add the butter and vanilla essence.
• Beat with a stand mixer or hand-held beaters until smooth and creamy.
• Sift into the bowl the self raising flour, plain flour and custard powder. Stir well to combine.
• Roll mixture into teaspoonful sized balls and place 5cm apart on the prepared baking trays.
• Press the tops of the balls lightly with a fork.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes or until just ever so lightly golden.
• Leave to cool on the trays for 10 minutes before moving to a wire rack to cool completely.
• To make the filling, beat the butter, vanilla essence and lemon juice until smooth and creamy.
• Slowly add the sifted icing sugar, beating well in between additions.
• When the mixture is completely combined and smooth, add one drop of pink food colouring and beat until the colour is evenly dispersed.
• Join two biscuits together with 1tsp of filling.
• Preheat oven to 160 degrees celsius (fan-forced). Line two baking trays with baking paper.
• Measure the self raising flour, plain flour and custard powder into the TM bowl and sift on Speed 3 for 30 seconds to combine. Place the flour mixture into a separate bowl and set aside.
• Place the butter, vanilla essence and icing sugar in the TM bowl. Beat on Speed 4 for approximately 1 minute or until the mixture is pale, fluffy and smooth.
• Add the flour mixture and combine on Speed 1, slowly increasing to Speed 4 until smooth and completely combined (if your mixture is too sticky, add a little more flour).
• Roll mixture into teaspoonful sized balls and place 5cm apart on the prepared baking trays. Press the tops of the balls lightly with a fork.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes or until just lightly golden. Leave to cool on the trays for 10 minutes before moving to a wire rack to cool completely.
• To make the filling, combine the butter and icing sugar on Speed 4 until pale and smooth. Add the vanilla essence, lemon juice and one drop of pink food colouring. Beat for 1 minute, Speed 6, or until smooth and fluffy.
• Join two biscuits together with 1 teaspoon of filling.

YOYO'S BBQ BEANS

Steps:

• Cook and stir the ground beef in a large skillet over medium-high heat until evenly browned; drain. Combine the onion and garlic in the skillet with the beef, and cook until the onion becomes transparent, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir the salt , pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and parsley into the beef mixture; cook 1 to 2 minutes.
• Stir the canned beans into the beef mixture. Add the mustard, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, and barbecue sauce and stir until blended. Taste and season with additional salt and pepper, if desired. Lower heat to medium-low and simmer mixture for 30 minutes to thoroughly combine flavors.

YOYOS

Steps:

• pre heat oven to 180 degrees C.
• cream butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy.
• add essence.
• sift flour and custard powder together, fold into creamed mixture.
• roll teaspoonfuls of mixture into balls.
• place on oven tray, gently flatten with a floured fork (not to hard, you still want a thick cookie and it does not rise when baking).
• bake for 15-20 minutes, when cold sandwich together in pairs with butter filling.
• to make butter filling:.
• beat all ingredients until well combined.

EDMONDS YOYOS

Steps:

• Cookies:.
• preheat oven to 180C or 350°F.
• cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy and add vanilla essence.
• sift the flour and custard powder and mix sifted ingredients into butter mix.
• roll small teaspoons of dough into balls and place on greased tray. flatten balls slightly with a fork.
• bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes. remove from the oven and allow to cool.
• Filling:.
• Beat all filling ingredients together until combined.
• Assembly:.
• Sandwich two cookies together with a little butter filling and serve.