chocolate biscuits with soft chocolate centres
dessert recipes | serves Makes 30 biscuits
This is a great recipe to do with kids, as it’s very simple and good fun putting the top circle over the chocolate and squashing the edges gently together to stop the chocolate escaping when it cooks. This is quite a dry mixture, but don’t worry, they are meant to look a bit cracked and rustic, so you can’t really go wrong! If you eat these when they have just been cooked the chocolate is quite runny, and if you eat them cold they are nice and gooey. You’ll need two cutters, one about 4cm/1½ inches and the other about 5cm/2 inches.
Grease a large baking sheet. Cream the butter and sugar together until pale. Beat in the egg yolks, then add the flour and cocoa powder to make a dough. Turn out and knead, then pop it into the fridge for a while. Preheat the oven to 190ºC/375ºF/gas 5.
On a lightly floured surface, roll about a third of the dough out thinly, then cut out about 30 circles with the smaller cutter (you can do fewer if you want the biscuits bigger). Spread them out on the baking sheet and put a square of chocolate in the middle of each one – make sure you use all the chocolate however many you do. Then roll the rest of the dough out (I always add the leftovers from the first lot of cutting to it and knead it a bit). Cut out the same number of circles with the larger cutter and pop them on top of the chocolate, pressing gently all the way round to seal the edge and keep all the chocolate in.
Cook in the preheated oven for 10 minutes, and eat them hot or cold.

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I will try it!!!
My brothers must love them,thanks!
i could never bake only burn and yet these came out "ok" (for a first attemp! BUT they tasted yummy! the little ...and big kids scoffed them in minutes!
Only i think i left it too long in the fridge and it was a bit dry to roll but managed well. ;)
im thinking of putting bounty chocolate pieces in next. its experimenting!
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What are you talking about? Are you saying that the METRIC system is different from country to country? You are crazy, lady. Just because it isn't a round number doesn't mean it does not exist in "our" metric system. I can't believe I read that. Serisously.
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I guess the dough was too dry, but you all don't seem to have encountered any problems, to can anyone help? Thanks!
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This week I'll try the chocolate biscuits with my students. They all know you very well and we visit your site a lot.
Can you please tell me, when you say to put the dough into the fridge for a while, how long must i leave it in there?
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when you say to put the dough in the fridge for a while, how long is a while? :)
im from germany but ive spend half a year in england/leeds..
i know that the english do have such bad eating habits, its unbelievable!
but i think that u really have changed a lot, i adore ur recipes and ur style and even the way u cook the meals haha
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the recipe makes about 30 servings
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MISS CHOCOLAT, Sorry you did not say what country you are from?
CASTER SUGAR is known in USA as SUPERFINE SUGAR, its really like regular sugar but finer grains, which makes it easier & quicker to dissolve when beating (creaming) with butter or eggs & especially when making a meringue (egg whites & sugar) like for a pavlova You can easily use regular sugar, just make sure the sugar is dissolved in your mixture you might have to cream (beat) a little longer there should not be a grainy texture
I just want to say that I think your a great cook!
Your recipes are so simply and easy that anyone can cook!
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I'm niw going to try and make the chocolate biscuits with chocolate centres..
Hopefully it won't go wrong lol!
I Really Like Your Recipes And I Love Cooking.
I Was Just Wondering If You Could Give Me A Recipe To Make A Chocolate Mousse,
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Jessica
Can you explane Caster sugar ?? is it the same sugar you use to sweeten your coffee or is it a special sugar ?
(Our sugar is made of sugar beets, maybe there's a difference ???)
fome lizzie