Yo Yos

After my totally rustic looking yo-yos last week I thought I'd try again this weekend while relaxing down at the farm!
Last week I used a Donna Hay recipe which tastes perfectly satisfactory, but seemed to be very crumbly and didn't form very regular circular shapes. This week I used a different recipe from the internet allrecipes.com.au and the results were much better. The dough rolled very nicely into a ball that was then easy to squish with the fork to make pretty lines on top. My m-i-l has the teaspoon size scoop too with which to make balls that were more similar in size

It's interesting to note that some recipes for YoYos require the use of cornflour while others use custard powder. I wonder if that's what made the difference with my 2 batches as generally the other ingredients in each recipe are exactly the same. To add an extra dimension to the dough next time, I think I'd add a few drops of vanilla. You know me, I can't help myself with the tweaking of the recipes ;-)


I stuck the biscuits together with some very tangy lemon icing, and, although as you can see they are still quite rustic and not particularly uniform in shape, I think they taste OK!

Another thought for next time is to use the pulp of a passionfruit in both the icing and the dough, or perhaps a little lemon zest or orange zest in both icing and dough....my goodness the possibilities go on and on!

Clearly I'll be practising yo-yo recipes for quite some time!