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Gypsy Creams Recipe

April 23, 2022 by Michelle
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How To Make Gypsy Creams

Crunchy, golden and chewy cookies sandwiched between a decadent vanilla buttercream. This gypsy creams recipe is so satisfying and is incredibly easy to make.

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Gypsy creams recipe

Delicious oat biscuits sandwiched between homemade vanilla buttercream. They’re like Fox’s crunch creams biscuits but taste even better!

If you love cookies with a buttercream filling, then these gypsy creams will be your new favourite. The biscuits are filled with oats for a crunchy and chewy texture, which contrast perfectly with the velvety smooth buttercream filling.

They’re perfect served with a hot drink or eaten on their own. Plus, they’re great for tea parties, birthdays and mini gatherings.

Gypsy creams biscuit

What Are Gypsy Creams?

McVities’ gypsy creams are two rounded biscuits with oats, sandwiched with a cream cheese chocolate filling. The biscuits are traditionally chocolate flavoured.

Are Gypsy Creams Still Made?

If you have a look in your local supermarkets, you’ll notice gypsy creams are nowhere to be found. That’s because McVities discontinued these biscuits in 2005!

Despite this, there are so many similar biscuits with cream in the middle that you can buy now a days like Fox’s crunch creams golden biscuits.

The closest biscuits to gypsy creams are Romany creams, they’re usually chocolate oat biscuits with a chocolate filling. They are called Romany to carry on the gypsy connotation.

Easy gypsy creams

Why You’ll Like This Recipe

  • So simple and easy.
  • Delicious oaty biscuits with creamy vanilla buttercream in-between.
  • A way to make gypsy creams (even though these biscuits are discontinued)!
  • Great for bake sales and tea parties.

Gypsy Creams Recipe Ingredients

Below the few ingredients needed to make these gypsy creams.

  • Butter: Use unsalted butter or stork butter
  • Baking Powder: Encourages the biscuit dough to spread out.
  • Sugar: Use caster sugar.
  • Plain Flour: Use plain flour and not self-raising flour.
  • Porridge Oats: Rolled porridge oats are best to use.
  • Vanilla Extract: The addition of vanilla extract is optional but adds a nice flavour to the biscuits.
  • Boiling Water: Boil the water (be careful with handling hot water)
  • Golden Syrup: Add sweetness and helps bind the ingredients together.
  • Buttercream: A mixture of butter, icing sugar and vanilla extract are whisked together to create a light and smooth buttercream.

How To Make Gypsy Creams

Below is a step-by-step guide on how to make homemade gypsy creams, full recipe ingredients are on the recipe card at the bottom.

Step One:

Whisked butter and sugar

Preheat your oven to 180°C (gas mark 4, 350°F) and line a baking tray with parchment paper.

Place butter and sugar into a large mixing bowl and whisk together until light and fluffy.

Step Two:

Whisked butter mixture

Add boiling water, syrup and vanilla extract into the mixing bowl and whisk until combined.

Step Three:

Gypsy creams biscuit dough

Then add flour, baking powder and oats into the mixing bowl and whisk together until a biscuit batter has formed.

Step Four:

dough rolled into balls

Scoop a heaped teaspoon amount of dough, place it into the palms of your hands and roll the dough into a ball. Place onto a lined baking tray and gently flatten with your hands.

Bake the biscuits in the oven for 15 minutes to 20 minutes or until golden. Once baked, leave the biscuits to cool down.

Step Five:

Homemade vanilla buttercream

Whilst the biscuits are cooling, it’s time to make the buttercream. Add icing sugar, butter and vanilla extract into a mixing bowl and whisk together until a light buttercream is made.

Step Six:

Homemade Gypsy creams

When cool, assemble the gypsy creams! Sandwich the biscuits with buttercream and enjoy.

How To Store And Freeze

Place the cooled gypsy creams in an airtight container and eat within 4 to 5 days.

To Freeze: freeze the buttercream and gypsy cream biscuits separately.

After the biscuits have cooled down, store in a freezer-safe container and freeze for up to 3 months. You can also freeze the buttercream separately. When you’re ready, take the buttercream and biscuits out of the freezer. When defrosted assemble and enjoy!

My Top Tips

Make sure the biscuits have cooled down completely before sandwiching them with the buttercream filling. If the biscuits are still warm, then the buttercream will start to melt.

Try to get the size of the dough as equal as possible, you could weigh them. This is so that the biscuits will bake in the oven at the same time.

Don’t forget to line the baking tray with parchment paper, this will make removal of the biscuits so easy. The biscuits won’t stick to the baking tray and it will reduce the likelihood of the biscuits breaking during removal.

Recipe Variations

Change the buttercream filling! Instead of vanilla extract you can add almond extract. You could also make the buttercream chocolatey by adding melted milk, dark or white chocolate.

Make Romany biscuits by adding 30g of cocoa powder to the Gypsy cream biscuit mixture. You can also add cocoa powder to the buttercream or use melted chocolate.

Leave the buttercream out if you want, you’ll be left with incredibly tasty Gypsy cream biscuits.

Add flaked almonds or ground almonds to incorporate even more flavour and texture.

More Biscuit Recipes

Below are even more delicious biscuit recipes for you to try next:

  • Oat Biscuits
  • Empire Biscuits
  • Chocolate Chip Fork Biscuits
  • Lemon Biscuits
  • Coffee Kisses
Homemade Gypsy creams

Gypsy Creams Recipe

Michelle
Here's how to make gypsy creams with this easy recipe. They are delicious oat biscuits with cream in the middle that taste great!
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 15 mins
Total Time 25 mins
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine British
Servings 15 Sandwiched Biscuits
Calories 288 kcal

Ingredients
 
 

  • 225 g Plain Flour
  • ½ tsp Baking Powder
  • 75 g Porridge Oats
  • 225 g Unsalted Butter
  • 100 g Caster Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 2 tbsp Boiling Water
  • 1 tbsp Golden Syrup

Vanilla Buttercream

  • 75 g Butter
  • 150 g Icing sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 180°C (gas mark 4, 350°F) and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
  • Place butter and sugar into a large mixing bowl and whisk together until light and fluffy.
  • Add boiling water, syrup and vanilla extract into the mixing bowl and whisk until combined.
  • Then add flour, baking powder and oats into the mixing bowl and whisk together until a biscuit batter has formed.
  • Scoop a heaped teaspoon amount of dough, place it into the palms of your hands and roll the dough into a ball. Place onto a lined baking tray and gently flatten with your hands.
  • Bake the biscuits in the oven for 15 minutes to 20 minutes or until golden. Once baked, leave the biscuits to cool down.
  • Whilst the biscuits are cooling, it’s time to make the buttercream. Add icing sugar, butter and vanilla extract into a mixing bowl and whisk together until a light buttercream is made.
  • When cool, assemble the gypsy creams! Sandwich the biscuits with buttercream and enjoy.

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Nutrition

Calories: 288kcalCarbohydrates: 33gProtein: 2gFat: 17gSaturated Fat: 10gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 43mgSodium: 49mgPotassium: 40mgFiber: 1gSugar: 18gVitamin A: 500IUCalcium: 18mgIron: 1mg
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  1. Susan Segota

    November 8, 2022 at 6:53 pm

    Hi Michelle,
    I am a bit confused. The instructions say to use a teaspoon when scooping out the cookies to bake, but this made about 100 individual cookies (very tiny). I was wondering how many cookies is this recipe supposed to make?

    Reply
    • Michelle

      November 8, 2022 at 7:36 pm

      Hi Susan, thanks for commenting 🙂
      You’ll want to scoop a ‘heaped’ teaspoon of dough. This makes 15 sandwiched biscuits for me (30 individual biscuits).

      Reply
  2. Lauren

    November 9, 2022 at 3:30 pm

    5 stars
    Really tasty, thank you.

    Reply
    • Michelle

      November 9, 2022 at 6:01 pm

      Hey Lauren, I’m glad you found the gypsy creams tasty.

      Reply

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