Do that fundamental recipe for fail-safe biscuits each time. Make a batch of chocolate chip cookies, or adapt it to incorporate nuts, fruit or your favorite sweets
- Prep:25 minutes
- Prepare dinner:10 minutes – 15 minutes
- 250g softened
- 350g or chopped chocolate chunks, or 400g for elective dipping (select your favorite kind)
- STEP 1
Beat the butter and sugar along with an elective pinch of sea salt in a bowl till mild and fluffy, then beat within the eggs one by one. Sift over the flour and cocoa powder and beat into the butter combine, then fold via the chocolate chips. The combo might be made as much as 2 days forward and chilled or frozen for a month, or used immediately.
- STEP 2
To bake, warmth oven to 190C/170C fan/gasoline 5. If the combo is at room temperature, place evenly spaced spoonfuls on parchment-lined baking sheets, permitting 2 tbsp for every cookie. If the combo is fridge chilly, you possibly can roll it into 40g balls earlier than baking. The balls might be frozen and the biscuits baked from frozen, however they’ll want a couple of minutes extra. Bake for 12-15 minutes till unfold out and crusty across the exterior. Go away to chill barely and luxuriate in heat, or go away to chill fully and eat chilly. The biscuits will preserve in a tin for 3 days.
- STEP 3
As an elective additional, the biscuits might be dipped in chocolate. To do that, soften your chosen kind of chocolate in a bowl over a pan of simmering water or within the microwave. Go away to chill just a little, then dip half of every biscuit within the chocolate and go away them on parchment-lined trays someplace cool to set. Once more, the dipped biscuits will preserve for as much as three days in a tin or lidded plastic container.
