Cute Valentine’s Day chocolate biscuits from only four ingredients!
A quick search for easy chocolate biscuit recipes turned up this one over at allrecipes. The original recipe suggested rolling the dough into small balls and pressing them down with a fork before baking. I went a little fancier in my decoration in honour of Valentine’s Day. But whether you make your chocolate biscuits heart-shaped or not, you’ll only need four ingredients.
Ingredients (makes approx. 12 biscuits – double up if you have hordes to feed!)
- 100 g / 3.5 oz margarine or butter
- 50 g / 1.7 oz caster sugar
- 100 g / 3.5 oz self-raising flour (plus a little for dusting your board/rolling pin/biscuit cutters)
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
Method
Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees C (160 fan)/ Gas Mark 4 / 350 degrees F. Grease and line two baking trays with greaseproof paper.
Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. If using an electric mixer or hand beaters, this should take 2-3 minutes.
Sift the flour and cocoa powder together. Add to the butter and sugar mix and stir until combined into a soft dough.
At this point, how difficult you make things for yourself if up to you. You can simply divide the dough into twelve, roll each piece into a ball, place them on the baking tray and flatten them slightly using a fork.
Or, you can divide your dough, roll these smaller pieces out and cut them into shapes using cookie cutters. With Valentine’s Day coming up, I decided to use my heart-shaped cutters. I also decided to debut the fantastic cookie stampers which Secret Santa got me.
A warning: the dough is soft and sticky. If you’re going to roll it and cut it out, you’ll need to flour your surface and cutters generously.
Put your raw chocolate biscuits onto your baking trays and bake for 10-15 minutes until they have started to brown and are firm round the edges.
Take the chocolate biscuits out of the oven and leave to cool on the tray for about 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling completely.
As I’d stamped my chocolate biscuits, I decided to “colour in” the letters with icing. I used white water icing (icing sugar plus water), piped through a small writing tip. I put a bit of red food colouring into some of the icing to decorate the hearts.
Store your finished chocolate biscuits in an airtight container. They should keep a few days, but best to eat them quickly!
Looking for some other biscuit recipes? Try these!
Two-colour heart-shaped and flower-shaped biscuits.
Melting moments – custard powder biscuits.
Claire Huston / Art and Soul
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They look wonderful, Claire 🙂
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Thank you. They were *almost* too cute to eat. But once I ate one the others were polished off pretty quickly! haha!
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I’m not surprised ;-D
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I love those cookie stamps! They definitely make for great Valentine cookies. 😀
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Secret Santa scored a big hit there – they’re great! 🙂 They’ll probably work even better with a slightly stiffer dough too.
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I can imagine, although they still look great with this recipe as well.
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Yum! And your only 1 follower away from 1,000 Claire!! Can’t wait to see it happen 🙂🙂🙂🙂
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Thank you and thank you!
I know!! I would have hit 1000 today but someone unfollowed me 😦 Obviously now producing the cake quickly enough!! 🙂
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Why would anyone unfollow you?! Hope you get there soon, I know you will 😃
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These are adorable 💕
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Thank you! They tasted great too 🙂 Almost too cute to eat!
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Everything looks adorable!
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Thank you 🙂
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I need those in my life, with a good book and the fire, for Valentine’s day!
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That sounds perfect! 🙂
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Who needs a Valentine’s on a special day? :p Cookies will do!
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Awww they look so cute, love the little message on them! Will have to make these next Valentine’s!
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Thank you 🙂 I’m really pleased with how well the stamper worked.
I hope they turn out well for you and you enjoy them 🙂
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We certainly will!
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yumm..will give it a try 😀
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I hope they turn out well for you too 🙂
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