Recipe: Delicious Chocolate Biscuits

Chocolate Biscuits. These chocolate biscuits have a unique, yet delicious light, chocolaty taste. They are crispy on the outside, and soft and chewy in the inside. When I was a wee little teenager a friend of mine made chocolate biscuits and chocolate gravy for breakfast one morning. It was a recipe from her step-mother's family and has been lost. Well that is what they said at the time then my daughter Jersey let me know later that crepes are actually better and everyone agreed.

Oh, well it is a good second place breakfast, trust me. Nigella Lawson calls these simple chocolate biscuits 'Granny Boyd's biscuits' after her editor's, Eugenie Boyd, granny - who gave her the recipe. And, as Felicity Cloake says in her article on how to cook the perfect chocolate biscuits , 'these biscuits are so fine-textured they actually melt on the tongue'. You can cook Chocolate Biscuits using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chocolate Biscuits

1. You need 140 g of plain flour.
2. You need 50 g of cocoa powder.
3. It's 100 g of chocolate chips.
4. It's 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
5. It's 150 g of unsalted butter.
6. It's 175 g of granulated sugar.
7. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
8. It's 1 of egg.

In a large bowl, cream together margarine and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until just blended. Cream together margarine and sugar until light and fluffy; stir in flour and cocoa powder.

Chocolate Biscuits instructions

1. Preheat oven to 170oC.
2. Line tray with baking paper.
3. Mix melted butter and sugar in a bowl.
4. Add egg and vanilla then mix again.
5. Gradually add flour, cocoa powder and baking soda then mix again.
6. Mix in the chocolate chips then divide the dough into 8 and place onto the tray (4 per tray so spaced out enough to expand).
7. Slightly flatten each batter ball and bake for 8-10mins.
8. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 30mins. They will be far too soft to handle at first and will harden when cooling.
9. Store in an airtight container for up to 1week.

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, vanilla, and molasses. (The mixture may look a little curdled, don't. 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. Chocolate fork biscuits These melt in the mouth chocolate fork biscuits are so simple they are the best, easy chocolate biscuits to bake with little kids.