Chocolate and Walnut Biscuits
3 hours 35 min
These are the perfect Christmas biscuits. They're flavoured with chocolate, walnuts, cloves, allspice and almond extract, baked and then dipped in chocolate.
Brigitte
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Ingredients
Makes: 50 approximately, depending on size
- For the Biscuit Dough
- 100g dark chocolate
- 100g walnuts
- 125g plain flour
- 75g caster sugar
- 125g cold butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 good pinch ground cloves
- 1 good pinch ground allspice
- 4-6 drops bitter almond extract
- butter to grease the baking tray
- For the Topping
- 150g dark chocolate
Method
Prep:1hr20min ›
Cook:15min ›
Extra time:2hr setting ›
Ready in:3hr35min
- Finely chop 100g chocolate and walnuts together. Set aside.
- Form a mound of flour, sugar, butter and spices on a work surface.
- Chop all the ingredients together with a knife, then knead with your hands to form a firm dough. Roll the dough into logs of 2.5-3cm in diameter.
- Cover and chill for at least 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 200 C / Gas 6 and grease a baking tray.
- Cut the dough logs into 1cm thick pieces and lay onto prepared baking tray.
- Bake for approximately 15 minutes. Let biscuits cool in the tin for 2-3 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool fully.
- Melt 150g chocolate in a double boiler and dip biscuits half way in. Transfer to a sheet of greaseproof paper and allow to set.
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?? Haven't made theses but don't quite understand the instructions, the biscuits are dipped in chocolate? The don't look like chocolate dipped biscuits in the picture? - 26 Oct 2012