Work catering week 5: Yo! have a Yoyo!

This week for work catering, I made Yoyos! a.k.a. Melting moments a.k.a Ladies kisses (in Italy =p). They are usually quite big when sold in cafes/bakeries but this time I made mini ones ^^ The two flavours I made were lemon and chocolate.

Yoyos
Recipe adapted from BlueBakeBlog

Ingredients
Biscuit
175g butter, softened at room temperature
1/4 cup icing sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 1/2 cups plain flour 
1/4 cup custard powder
*1/4 cup cocoa powder (for chocolate yoyos)

Lemon buttercream
50g butter, softened at room temperature
1/2 cup icing sugar
zest of 1 lemon
juice of 1/2 lemon

Chocolate buttercream
50g butter, softened at room temperature
1/2 cup icing sugar
50g melted chocolate

1. Preheat oven to 180oC. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
2. Beat butter and icing sugar with electric beater until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and beat well. Sift flour and custard powder into mixture and mix well. (add in cocoa powder for chocolate yoyos)
3. Roll teaspoonfuls of mixture into balls. Place on tray and flatten with a fork. Bake for 15-20 minutes.
4. For buttercream, beat butter and sugar. Add lemon juice or melted chocolate and beat.
5. Sandwich two biscuits together with buttercream

plate of yoyos ^_^

close up of yoyos

I also made some Butterscotch brownies with a fun marbled topping :) 
You can find the recipe here.

chocolate swirly topping~~

cut up into squares

BITE sized

Close up of brownies

Hmmm.. almost running out of ideas >.< maybe I can recycle some =p