Chocolate Brownie Biscuits

Chocolate Brownie Biscuits

These biscuits have a crackly crust and a heavenly chewy, fudge centre and will become one of your favourite chocolate treats! Make sure to bake these with a good quality chocolate with at least 70% cocoa solids.

220g dark chocolate, finely chopped (I used coffee flavoured chocolate, you don’t have to but do make sure that your chocolate has at least 70% cocoa solids)
90ml butter, melted
190ml brown sugar
62ml white sugar
2 eggs
190ml flour
60ml cocoa powder, sifted
10ml espresso coffee powder
1,2ml salt

Preheat your oven to 180℃ and line 2 baking sheets with baking paper.
Add the chocolate and butter to a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir every now and then until the chocolate is melted and the mixture has amalgamated. Take the bowl from the heat and set aside.
Add the eggs, brown sugar and white sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.
Beat the mixture together at high speed for 3 – 4 minutes.
Turn the mixer speed down to low and pour in the chocolate mixture with the machine running.
Add the flour, sifted cocoa powder, baking powder and salt to a mixing bowl and stir together until well mixed.
Remove the mixing bowl from the stand mixer and add the dry ingredients. Fold through with a spatula.
Spoon about 15ml of the batter onto the prepared baking sheet, leaving room for the biscuits to spread.
Bake for 10 minutes.
Cool the biscuits on the baking sheet before storing/serving.

Chocolate-Orange Biscuits

Chocolate-Orange Biscuits

These biscuits do not look like much but they are soooo good! They have a wonderful snap and the chopped chocolate adds a sharp and delicious chocolatey fabulousness!!

125g butter
175g caster sugar
225g flour
10ml baking powder
80g dark chocolate, finely chopped BUT NOT SHAVED
the grated zest of 2 oranges
15ml fresh orange juice

Preheat your oven to 180℃ and line two baking sheets with baking paper.
Add the butter and sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat together on high speed. The mixture should be fluffy and airy.
Remove the bowl from the mixer and sift the flour and baking powder into the bowl. Stir together.
Add the chopped chocolate, orange zest and orange juice to the mixture and mix together with a spatula.
Flour a work surface and roll the dough to a 0,5cm thickness.
Cut out with a biscuit cutter of your choice and place on the prepared baking sheets.
Bake the biscuits for 20 minutes.
Remove the baking sheets from the oven and leave the biscuits on the sheets for 5 minutes before cooling it completely on a cooling rack.
Store the biscuits in an airtight glass jar.