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Easy chocolate biscuits

Barney Desmazery

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Prep: 25 mins
Cook: 10 mins - 15 mins

Easy

Makes 25 biscuits

Try this basic recipe for fail-safe biscuits every

time. Make a batch of chocolate chip cookies, or
adapt it to include nuts, fruit or your favourite
sweets
Vegetarian

Nutrition: Per serving

kcal fat saturates carbs

243 12g 7g 29g

sugars fibre protein salt

18g 1g 4g 0.35g

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Ingredients

250g butter, softened

350g light soft brown sugar

2 large eggs

350g self-raising flour

100g cocoa powder

200g chocolate chips or chopped chocolate chunks,

or 400g for optional dipping (choose your favourite
type)

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Method
STEP 1
Beat the butter and sugar together with an optional
pinch of sea salt in a bowl until light and fluffy, then
beat in the eggs one at a time. Sift over the flour and
cocoa powder and beat into the butter mix, then fold
through the chocolate chips. The mix can be made up
to 2 days ahead and chilled or frozen for a month, or
used straight away.

STEP 2
To bake, heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. If the
mix is at room temperature, place evenly spaced
spoonfuls on parchment-lined baking sheets, allowing
2 tbsp for each cookie. If the mix is fridge cold, you
can roll it into 40g balls before baking. The balls can
be frozen and the biscuits baked from frozen, but
they’ll need a few minutes more. Bake for 12-15 mins
until spread out and crusty around the outside. Leave
to cool slightly and enjoy warm, or leave to cool
completely and eat cold. The biscuits will keep in a tin
for three days.

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STEP 3
As an optional extra, the biscuits can be dipped in
chocolate. To do this, melt your chosen type of
chocolate in a bowl over a pan of simmering water or
in the microwave. Leave to cool a little, then dip half
of each biscuit in the chocolate and leave them on
parchment-lined trays somewhere cool to set. Again,
the dipped biscuits will keep for up to three days in a
tin or lidded plastic container.

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RECIPE TIPS

ADD YOUR FAVOURITE BITS

Use the easy recipe as a blueprint for adding any of
your favourite biscuit bits. Any chopped nuts or bits of
toffee, honeycomb or chopped dried fruit would work
well.

GIVE YOUR BISCUITS A 'FLORENTINE’ FINISH

After dipping you can give the biscuits a ‘Florentine’
finish by scattering the wet warm chocolate with
flaked almonds or chopped pistachios or bits of dried
fruit.

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Heather Zavaďák-Wyche
2 weeks ago

I agree with other commenters regarding the extreme

dryness of the mixture - even after adding a third egg I
was unable to stir it properly myself, and had to ask
my husband to help! If you're stronger than me, or
have a mixer, you might find putting together the mix-
ture easier, but if not, you… More

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Heather Zavaďák-Wyche
1 week ago

To add: on the day of baking the cookies were

soft and quite gooey, on the second day
they'd hardened and crisped up a bit. Both
very tasty.

rachaelpollard7717234
1 month ago

Easy, delicious and very reliable recipe. I added a tea-

spoon of almond extract and some glacé cherries
too…family love them!

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HamblinSJ
3 months ago

I agree that these are not truly cookies, having a cake

like texture. However, the family love them…. I’m go-
ing to make them again but next time I’ll cook them as
a tray bake rather than biscuit and see how that’s re-
ceived.

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Heather Fleming 3
9 months ago

These are not cookies. With self raising flour and 2

eggs they come out as little cakes. Still quite tasty but
really not cookies

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Heather Zavaďák-Wyche
2 weeks ago

Agreed, they are very soft, but very tasty. And

to HV1: having read all of your comments on
this recipe (and on other recipes, for that
matter) you seem to either be having a lot of
fun trolling other people (which is rather pa-
thetic, if that is the case) or the original au-
thor of this recipe being… More

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The500chef
9 months ago

Made these today for Forces Veterans Coffee Morning

tomorrow. Absolutely delicious. Split the batch in half
and added white chocolate chips to one half and milk
chocolate chips to the other half.

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HV1
6 months ago

Did you know white 'chocolate ' has never

ever encountered a chocolate bean?

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