Chocolate Christmas biscuits
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- plus cooling
- Easy
- Makes 50
Ingredients
- 270g plain flour
- 50g cocoa powder
- 120g icing sugar
- 150g butter
- 2 eggs
For decoration
- melted chocolate or piping icing, sugar pearls, sprinkles
Method
- STEP 1
Mix the flour, cocoa, icing sugar and a pinch of salt in a bowl. Rub in the butter and then mix in eggs. Knead quickly with your hands to a smooth dough. Wrap in foil, press into a flat disc and chill for 30 minutes.
- STEP 2
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Line a couple of baking sheets with baking parchment. Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured worksurface to about 3mm thin. Cut out shapes from the dough. Put the biscuits on the baking sheets – it’s best to put similarly sized cookies together. Bake for 7-10 minutes, depending on the size of the biscuits.
- STEP 3
Knead the off-cuts of the dough together and chill again for 15 minutes. Roll, cut and bake as before. Cool completely.
- STEP 4
When cooled, the cookies can be decorated with chocolate or icing and sugar pearls and sprinkles.
