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|description=Shortbread sandwiches with a sugar cream filling. Recipe added by Leigh Lingard from Australia
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A [[Shortbread|shortbread]] [[Sandwich|sandwich]] [[biscuit]] (Cookie).
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|TotalCalories = 1417
|PortionCalories = 118
|DatePublished=18th January 2013
|Author=Chef
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|Servings = Servings: 12 - Makes 24 biscuits - 12 Yo-Yos.
|Difficulty = 1
|TotalTime = 30 minutes
|PrepTime = 15 minutes
|CookTime = 15 minutes
|Image = [[Image:Yoyos recipe.jpg|middle|none|alt=Electus]]

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====Best recipe review====

''Yo Yo''

3.67/5

Sounds like a New York greeting, not a biscuit!

 [[User:Klapaucius|Klapaucius]] 
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{{RecipeIngredients
|'''Yo-Yos'''
| 4oz. [[Butter]] - at room temperature
| 1.5 oz [[Icing Sugar]] (Powdered [[Sugar]])
| 4oz [[Self-raising flour|self-raising flour]]
| 2oz [[Custard]] Powder (Bird's [[Dessert]] Mix - US/Canada)
|'''Vienna or [[Butter]] Icing'''
| 1.5oz [[Butter]] - at room temperature
| 1.5oz [[Icing Sugar]]
| 1/2 a teaspoon of Essence or 1 tablespoon of [[Fruit juice|fruit juice]]
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===[[Mise en place]]===

* 350° (moderate [[Oven|oven]]).
===Method===

{{RecipeMethod

| Requirements: Two basins, [[Sieve|sieve]], wooden spoon, fork, moderate [[Oven|oven]], [[Oven tray|oven tray]], spatula, [[Cake|cake]] cooler.
| Yo-Yos:
| Collect requirements and ingredients.
| Grease [[Oven tray|oven tray]] and prepare [[Oven|oven]].
| Sift [[Flour|flour]] and [[Custard|custard]] powder.
| [[Cream]] [[Butter|butter]] & sift [[Icing Sugar|icing sugar]].
| Add dry ingredients gradually, mixing to a stiff [[Dough|dough]] with [[Hand|hand]].
| Roll into small balls and place on [[Oven tray|oven tray]]. Press with back of fork.
| Cook in a moderate [[Oven|oven]] 15-20 minutes until pale fawn in colour.
| Lift on to [[Cake|cake]] cooler.
| When cold join together with [[Butter]] Icing and store in an airtight tin.
| Vienna or [[Butter]] Icing:
| Sift [[Icing Sugar|icing sugar]].
| [[Cream]] [[Butter|butter]], add [[Icing Sugar|icing sugar]] gradually.
| Add essence and mix thoroughly.
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===Serving suggestions===
I use [[Vanilla extract|vanilla extract]] or [[Lemon juice|lemon juice]] in the icing mixture.
===Recipe source===
* Approach To [[Cookery]], An Elementary [[Cookery]] Book For Post Primary Schools by a sub-Committee of The Home Economics Teachers' Group, Melbourne Australia, MacMillan 1965.
* Recipe added by [[User:Leigh Lingard|Leigh Lingard]], by [[User:Chef|proxy]].
===Variations===
I have recently seen a recipe for Yo-Yos on the internet where [[Nutella]]® was used for the filling.
===Chef's notes===
This recipe is copied from my younger sisters' year 8 Home Economics book from 1965. I remembered my Mother making them for us in the early 1950's, I saw the recipe in her cook book & somehow acquired the book.

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