Chocolate Freckle Cookies
I just posted this on FB, but they are too yummy not to share with everyone.
Ingredients
125g butter, softened
3/4 cup (165g) brown sugar, firmly packed
1 1/2 cups (225g) plain flour
1 egg
1/4 cup (35g) SR flour
1/4 cup (35g) cocoa
200g dark eating chocolate, melted (I just used cadbury choc chips)
hundreds & thousands
Method
- beat butter, sugar and egg in small bowl with mixer until combined. Stir in sifted dry ingredients, in two batches.
- knead dough on floured surface until smooth. Roll between sheets of baking paper until 5mm thick. Cover and refrigerate for 30 mins.
- preheat oven to 180deg/60deg fan forced. Line trays with baking paper.
- Using 3cm, 5cm and 6.5 cm round cutters, cut 14 rounds of each size from dough (cut as many as you can, then you need to re-knead a little bit and roll out and refrigerate again, but only for 10 minutes). Place 3cm rounds on one tray and larger ones on other trays.
- bake small cookies about 10 minutes and larger ones for 12. cool on wire racks
- when completely cool, spread tops of biscuits with melted chocolate and sprinkle with 100s & 1000s and set at room temp. (we made these on a really warm day, so I popped in the fridge for 10-15 minutes to set and they were fine.
Makes 42.
(I only used a 4cm and 5cm cutter and got 40 biscuits, but mine were a little thicker than 5mm)
