BISCUITS

BISCUITS

Ingredients:

• 150 grams of soft butter
• 1/2 cup of icing sugar
• 3 tablespoons of oil
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1/4 cup of corn flour
• 1 & 1/2 cups of flour

A slab of plain chocolate melted in the microwave for 40 seconds in a heatproof bowl ( make sure the chocolate are broken into pieces) take the melted chocolate out and stir gently until smooth. Do this while your baked biscuits are busy cooling off.

METHOD:

Preheat the oven to 170°C and line two baking trays with baking paper.

In a large bowl , with electric hand mixer, whisk the butter for 2 minutes, next add the icing sugar, oil and vanilla essence and whisk for 4 minutes . Next add the dry ingredients and whisk until just well combined .

Spoon mixture into a piping bag fitted with a star shaped nozzle . Pipe round rosettes in neat rows and 2 cm apart . Bake for 10-12 minutes or until you see the edges turn a golden brown . Remove from the oven and cool completely.

Next lay some baking or greaseproof paper on your table . Next to it your biscuits and your bowl of melted chocolate and a teaspoon. At this stage I sit down on my comfy chair and get started.

On the base of each biscuit place a teaspoons worth of melted chocolate and use the back of the teaspoon to spread the chocolate allowing a little to go over the edges of the biscuit . Place the biscuit , chocolate side facing you on the greaseproof paper . Repeat process with remaining biscuits ... Halfway through setting of the chocolate, take a fork and make a zig zag motion through the chocolate to create the pretty pattern . Allow to set completely , turn the biscuits around , and you got Love Bites . And serve .