Chocolate Biscuits
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Preheat oven to 190ºC / 375ºF / Gas 5. Cream sugar and butter. Sift flour and cocoa powder together and add to butter mixture. Mix well. Using floured hands, roll quite small amounts of mixture into approx 36 balls. Place well apart (to allow for spreading) on a lined baking sheet and squash slightly to make a squat flat circle. Bake for 8 minutes. Leave to cool in tin for 5 minutes, then place on a cooling rack.
Preheat oven to 190ºC / 375ºF / Gas 5. Cream sugar and butter. Sift flour and unsweetened cocoa together and add to butter mixture. Mix well. Using floured hands, roll quite small amounts of mixture into approx 36 balls. Place well apart (to allow for spreading) on a lined baking sheet and squash slightly to make a squat flat circle. Bake for 8 minutes. Leave to cool in tin for 5 minutes, then place on a cooling rack.
Introduction
Delicious melt-in-the mouth biscuits that are quick and easy to make.
Delicious melt-in-the mouth biscuits that are quick and easy to make.
Ingredients
Serves: 36
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Cups
- 100 grams caster sugar
- 220 grams butter (softened)
- 220 grams self-raising flour
- 4 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 3½ ounces superfine sugar
- 7¾ ounces butter (softened)
- 7¾ ounces self-rising flour
- 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
Method
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Show more commentsQuite a dry, crumbly biscuit. Baked for 12 minutes as I saw someone recommended bake for 15 (my oven is quite new so very hot and they'd started 'catching' around the edge). Next time I may try reducing the amount of flour to allow for the cocoa powder.
These are my go-to biscuits for my grandson who has an egg allergy. Sometimes I replace the cocoa with 2 tablespoons each of custard powder and rice flour - this gives a lovely vanilla shortbread-like biscuit. I've also added lemon zest or currants or lavender for a different option. A great, versatile recipe. Thanks for posting it here.
Also, add an egg to soften the mixture. It helped as well.
Try baking it for 15 mins. I tried that and it worked.
Very soft after baking for 8 mins and very very crumbly?
My cookies are still very soft after baking for 8 minutes...is that the right consistency to take out of the oven?