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. For chocolate chips, fold roughly chopped chocolate into the biscuit dough until combined. To coat biscuits in chocolate, place the biscuits onto a raised wire rack and place a sheet of waxed. You can have Chocolate Biscuits using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Chocolate Biscuits
- Prepare 140 g of plain flour.
- Prepare 50 g of cocoa powder.
- You need 100 g of chocolate chips.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
- It's 150 g of unsalted butter.
- It's 175 g of granulated sugar.
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 1 of egg.
Cream together margarine and sugar until light and fluffy; stir in flour and cocoa powder. 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'. In a large bowl, cream together margarine and sugar until smooth.
Chocolate Biscuits instructions
- Preheat oven to 170oC.
- Line tray with baking paper.
- Mix melted butter and sugar in a bowl.
- Add egg and vanilla then mix again.
- Gradually add flour, cocoa powder and baking soda then mix again.
- 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).
- Slightly flatten each batter ball and bake for 8-10mins.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 30mins. They will be far too soft to handle at first and will harden when cooling.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 1week.
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. These Chocolate cookies are just to die for. I made a batch and they were gone so fast I had to make another one before I went to bed that night. I baked them off first thing in the morning and everybody had cookies for breakfast, We will make these a lot in our house.