Recipes Cookies & Biscuit Recipes Biscuits Bourbon Biscuits Back to Biscuits Bourbon Biscuits Total Time 1h 15m Prep Time 50m Bake Time 25m Serves 12 Skill Level Easy Dietary Needs Veg Vegetarian 5 Reviews 4 star rating Share These classic biscuits are simple to make and delicious to munch on or dunk in a hot drink. So go a little retro and bake these today! Keep the biscuits stored in an air tight container and consume within 2 days. Method In a food processor blend together the flour, butter, cocoa powder, sugar, golden syrup, bicarbonate of soda. 225g Allinson Plain White Flour 125g Butter (unsalted) (chilled ) 75g Cocoa Powder 125g Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar 2 tbsp Golden Syrup 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda Gradually add the milk until the mixture forms a dough. 3 tbsp Milk Wrap the dough in cling film and chill in the fridge for 10 minutes. Unwrap and roll out the dough out to a thickness of 1cm Cut out rectangles approximately 3x8cm and using a skewer make the traditional indents on the top of every other biscuit. Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and chill the biscuits in the fridge for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 180°C (160° fan gas mark 4). Bake the biscuits for 20-25 minutes then leave to cool. To make the filling, blend together the icing sugar, butter, custard powder and cocoa powder. 3 tbsp Custard Powder 100g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar 25g Cocoa Powder 75g Butter (unsalted) (softened ) 2 tsp Milk Once the biscuits are fully cooled, pipe the filling and sandwich the biscuits together. Let's Bake The easiest way to follow a recipe Vegetarian Reviews 07 September 2020 5 star rating The best biscuit recipe I use. They are very rich and chocolatey and the cream filling is made extra smooth and creamy by the custard powder (although I omitted this from the recipe for the fist 5 or 6 batches). I also use a mini round cutter to make bite size biscuits. This works well as the biscuits are soo rich. I get approx 30 filled biscuits using a small cutter. These look great and go down really well with a cuppa. 06 April 2020 1 star rating Not went well 04 February 2020 5 star rating Fantastic - you will never buy a packet again as they will never live up to this recipe. So rick and delicious. Custard powder nice (adds a creamy texture to the butter cream) but not essential. I also do these using the smallest round cookie cutter as they are soo rich and then they seem to go further. 21 April 2018 5 star rating Fantastic recipe. Made for the children who have said they no longer want shop bought bourbon biscuits ever again! 25 August 2017 5 star rating I was looking for a bourbon recipe that also shows you how to make the cream for a while. This recipe made about 25 bourbons that taste just like the ones you buy from a shop! I rolled the dough out much thinner and cut smaller rectangles so that they were the same size as a regular bourbon, but apart from that I followed the recipe exactly. Leave Your Thoughts Your Rating 5 stars4 stars3 stars2 stars1 star Email Your Review Ingredients Metric For the Biscuits 225g Allinson Plain White Flour 125g Butter (unsalted) (chilled ) 75g Cocoa Powder 125g Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar 2 tbsp Golden Syrup 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda 3 tbsp Milk For the Filling 3 tbsp Custard Powder 100g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar 25g Cocoa Powder 75g Butter (unsalted) (softened ) 2 tsp Milk