This week Roy decided it was time to do some more baking. He has had a craving for a simple, old fashioned, chocolate flavoured biscuit, but there were surprisingly few simple recipes out there for just plain old chocolate biscuits! They all seemed to have nuts or chunks of chocolate, or dried fruit, or spices or some other flavour. As always, he decided to ask Grandma, figuring she might have some idea and lo and behold, she produced a recipe which she used to cook many, many years ago, but hasn’t made since. Roy gave them a try, and they were delicious, so this week Roy Creates Patsy’s Chocolate Biscuits.
Note: in case you are wondering, we don’t know who Patsy is! If you know, feel free to leave us a comment.The recipe came from a very old, English, Women's Weekly
You Will Need:
- 120 grams of margarine
- 60 grams of castor sugar
- ½ a teaspoon of vanilla essence
- 30 grams of drinking chocolate powder. Roy didn’t have any drinking chocolate, so he used 10 grams of cocoa and 20 grams of sugar and this worked well, but drinking chocolate gives a lighter biscuit.
- 120 grams of self-raising flour
- Optional: icing sugar for dusting.
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius and line biscuit trays with baking paper
- Put the margarine and sugar into a mixing bowl and use a wooden spoon to cream them together. If you want you can use electric beaters, but Roy found the wooden spoon worked just fine.
- Add the drinking chocolate and vanilla essence and beat them in with the wooden spoon.
- Add the flour and mix thoroughly until everything is well combined.
- Now, take a rounded teaspoon of the mix and use your hands to roll it into a ball. If your dough is very sticky, you can lightly flour your hands to stop it sticking.
- Put the balls of dough onto the prepared trays (they spread so don’t put them to close together)
- Use a fork dipped in water to gently flatten the biscuits.
- Put the trays of biscuits into the oven and bake for 10 minutes or until they are cooked.
- Let the biscuits cool on a cooling rack and store in an airtight container. You can sprinkle them with a little icing sugar before serving, if you like.
- These biscuits last well, if you can stop eating them!