Biscuit Selection Pack 1

    Cookie fest!!!! I made these beauties to give to my Dad and tried to use flavour ingredients that I knew he liked. So here we have, from left to right, Dark Fruit n Nut Chocolate biscuits, Toblerone Biscuits (Based on a Dan Lepard Recipe), and Chocolate fudge Biscotti (Based on this AllRecipes recipe). All of these worked quite well, apart from the fudge bit, which to be honest I would have been better off making a plain Biscotti and nibbling on a finger of Fudge inbetween bites lol. I chopped up Fudge fingers for these but sadly they bubbled and baked apart during their time in the oven, and disappeared. No fudgyness :( But in the end, they were very edible, very tasty, and looked nice :) Feel free to leave them naked, or clothe them in a drizzling of white chocolate as shown.


Dark Fruit & Nut chocolate biscuits.

Ingredients:

• 125g Unsalted butter (Room Temp)
• 90g Light brown sugar
• 1 Tsp Vanilla extract
• 1 Large free range egg
• 90g Self raising flour
• 50g Wholemeal flour
• 30g Cocoa powder
• 1/4 Tsp Baking Powder
• Pinch of salt
• 50g Dark Chocolate
• 100g Cadbury's Fruit n Nut 
• 3 TBSP Milk

Preparation:

• Prep 2 baking trays with baking paper or cake release spray
• Add the butter, sugar and vanilla to a large bowl and mix well (I used my Kenwood)
• Beat the egg, then add and continue mixing.
• Sieve the flours, cocoa, baking powder and salt and then slowly add to the bowl whilst mixing.
• Add the milk and mix.
• Chop up the chocolates into fine chunks and add to the mixture. I mixed these in by hand as they get a bit mashed by the paddle in the Kenwood.
• Chill in the fridge of freezer for a while until the dough is slightly hardened
• Preheat the oven to 190c.
• Take large teaspoons full of the mix and shape into rough balls and place on the baking tray leaving room for them to spread when they bake.
• Press the top of each one down slightly with the back of the teaspoon.
• Bake for about 15mins or until the edges are slightly browning.
• After 5 minutes hardening on the tray, transfer to a cooling rack.
• Eat!

Toblerone Biscuits:

Ingredients:

• 50g unsalted butter (Room Temp)
• 175g Golden caster sugar
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract
• 1 Free range egg
• 100ml Sunflower oil
• 150g plain flour
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 100g rolled oats
• 30g chopped almonds
• 200g Toblerone (Variety of your choosing)

Preparation:

• Add the butter, sugar, vanilla to a mixing bowl and mix well until light and smooth.
• Add the egg and continue mixing.
• Add the oil and continue mixing.
• Add the oats and almonds and continue mixing.
• Sieve the flour and baking powder and add the the mixture. Mix in well
• Chop up the the toblerone into small chunks (I blitzed mine in the processor and it was a bit too fine)
• Add the Toblerone bits and mix in.
• Cool the dough in the fridge of freezer so it hardens slightly
• Preheat the oven to 170c
• Teaspoon out lumps of the and make them roughly ball shaped.
• Place on a prep'd baking tray, leaving room to spread, and press down slightly with the back of the teaspoon.
• Bake for about 15 mins, or until the edges start to brown slightly.
• Cool on the tray for a while until they harden slightly then transfer to a cooling rack.
• Eat!

Chocolate Fudgey Biscotti.

Ingredients:

• 75g Unsalted Butter (Room temp)
• 135g Golden caster sugar
• 2 Free range eggs
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract
• 100g Dark chocolate
• 1 pack (85g) Dr Oetker Fudge chunks, or similar. (Cadbury's fudge didn't work!)
• 220g Plain flour
• 30g Cocoa powder
• 2 tsp Baking powder
• 1 TBSP Water
• 1 Free range egg (For an egg wash)

Preparation:

• Preheat the oven to 190c
• Add the butter, sugar and vanilla to a mixing bowl and mix together until light and smooth.
• Add the 2 eggs one at a time and mix well.
• Sieve the flour, baking powder and cocoa and add slowly whilst mixing. Mix together well.
• Chop up the chocolate into fine chunks.
• Add the chocolate and fudge chunks to the mixture and stir in well.

Chopped up Fudge Fingers look nice, but don't work!

• Prep a large baking tray or 2 smaller trays with baking paper. (I just used cake release spray, and afterwards remembered that I wanted to lift them from the tray to cut. Ooops)
• Divide the dough equally into 2 and form 2 'loaves' on the baking tray about 9" x 3" x 1"

Mmmmmmmm!

• Beat the egg and brush all over the tops of the loaves (Look lovely don't they! lol)
• Bake for about 20 mins.
• Remove from the trays onto a cooling rack and allow to cool for no more than 10 mins or they get a bit crumbly. I left mine about 7 mins and a few of them were getting crumbly.

You can see where the fudge has just melted and bubbled out to nothing. 

• Using a sharp knife, cut into slices about 2 - 2.5cm thick.

• Return them to the baking tray and cook for 7-10mins (Don't burn them)
• Turn each one over and cook for another 7-10mins.
• Take them out and transfer to a cooling rack to cool.
• Eat! 

WobbleWobbleWobble!!!! Masterchef Synaesthesia by @swedemason

Of course, if I ate too many of these I would become........tada! Half Man Half Biscuit - Trumpton Riots.

Mr Cookie Monster shows how to eat cookies properly. 

And for no link whatsoever to biscuits - A triple play of the Manics! Manic Street Preachers - Stay Beautiful. (From 21yrs ago!!! aaaaargh!)

Suicide is Painless (Theme from M.A.S.H.)

Motorcycle Emptyness.

Did I say triple-play? lol Design For Life

If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next

Awh, they won't let me have Little Baby Nothing :(

So, I'll finish with, um...... Some Kind Of Bliss  with little Kylie :)

Happy Biscuiting!