Chocolate Biscuits ( makes 20)
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Start by roughly chopping the chocolate into shards of the kind of size you’d like to find in a biscuit.
  2. Put the butter in a food mixer and beat briefly to soften, then add the sugar and syrup and beat again on a medium speed for about 5 mins until nice and fluffy, scraping down the bowl as needed.
  3. Meanwhile, sift together the flour, cocoa powder and salt. With the mixer running on a low speed, add the dry ingredients and continue mixing until everything comes together into a dough.
  4. Roll the dough into a sausage shape about 5cm in diameter. Wrap well and chill for at least 30 minutes, and up to 10 days.
  5. Heat the oven to 180C (160C fan)/350F/gas 4 and line two baking trays with greaseproof paper. Cut the sausage into thin rounds and arrange, fairly well spaced out, on the trays.
  6. Bake for 25 minutes (for crisp biscuits; or 15 for squidgy, or 20 for somewhere in between), then leave to cool on the baking tray.