Custard cream

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A custard cream is a type of sandwich biscuit popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland and parts of the Commonwealth. It consists of two embossed biscuits filled with a sweet, custard-flavoured cream. Traditionally, the filling was buttercream (which is still used in most homemade recipes) but nowadays cheaper fats have replaced butter in mass-produced biscuits. The filling has a vanilla flavour and as such is more akin to the taste of custard made with custard powder than egg custard. The precise date of the custard cream’s invention remains uncertain. Some sources claim it debuted in 1908 while others suggest 1913. Usually, they have an elaborate baroque design stamped onto them, originating in the Victorian era and representing ferns. Some British and Irish supermarkets produce their own brand versions, with flavour variations including lemon, orange, banana, chocolate, strawberry, coffee, tangerine, rhubarb & custard and coconut. There is a digestive cream version available, in which...

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