Monday, February 23, 2009

Choc Tipped Biscuits

Ingredients
115g Butter
3 Tablespoons Icing Sugar (sifted)
150g Plain Flour
Vanilla Essence
75g Chocolate (broken into small pieces)

Equipment
1 Sieve
1 Mixing Bowl
1 Wooden Spoon
1 Baking Tray
1 Piping Bag with Large Star Nozzle (optional)
1 Wire Rack
1 Baking Tray
1 Pan (1/2 filled with water with a glass bowl inside to melt the chocolate)

The Good Bit
  1. Pre heat your oven too 180c 350f gas 4. Mix the butter and sugar together in the bowl until soft and then mix in the flour and a few drops of vanilla essence. Pipe onto the baking tray, you should get about 10x5 inch biscuits. Cook for 15-20 minutes until golden
  2. Allow the biscuits to cool slightly before moving them onto the wire rack, Melt the chocolate in a bowl that is being warmed gently in a pan of hot water, stir the chocolate until it is a thick creamy consistency then remove from the heat. Dip both ends of your biscuits into the chocolate then set back on the wire rack to set.