Chocolate coconut spider- web biscuits

Butter softened 120 g

Caster sugar 120 g
Plain flour 150 g
Cocoa powder 30 g
Milk 30 ml
Coconut 50 g
Dark chocolate 50 g
Icing sugar 200 g
Lemon juice 15 ml
Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to 175°C and line a baking tray with silicone paper.
2. In a round bottomed bowl beat the butter and sugar together.
3. Sieve the cocoa powder and flour together.
4. Add the flour, coconut and milk and mix well until you form a dough.
5. Turn out on to a lightly floured surface and roll out to a thickness of 3 mm.
6. Using a 7 cm round cutter cut the dough and place onto the baking sheets.
7. Bake of 15 – 20 minutes or until golden brown and crisp. Lift onto a wire
rack and leave to cool.

To decorate.

8. Mix the icing sugar with the lemon juice and a little water to create a thick
paste.
9. Melt the chocolate and place into a piping bag.
10. One biscuit at a time spread the top with the icing so that it is evenly covered
then using the chocolate start and the middle and make a chocolate spiral
stopping at the edge of the biscuit.
11. Take a knife, place the point on the outside of the biscuit and pull through the
chocolate and icing stopping at the centre of the spiral. Repeat six times.
12. Repeat until all the biscuits are iced.
13. Let the icing set.
14. Taking the chocolate, pipe eight legs and make a chocolate ball in the middle
to look like a spider.