Practising New Techniques
Hello! Sorry its been a while, I've been busy recently (shocking I know!). I decided to try something a little different this time and make some stained glass effect biscuits. These are quite easy to make!
I wanted to make some Christmas biscuits so I used some round and snowflake shaped cutters and cut out some chocolate biscuit dough. I then used a smaller star shape and pointed shape (not sure what it was, looks a bit like a squashed star) to make holes in the biscuits. I then smashed (extremely good as a stress relief) some lollipops (or you can use hard boiled sweets) and filled these holes with the crumbs!
When the biscuits go in the oven (for about 9 minutes at 180C), the sweet crumbs melt and form a lovely stained glass effect in the middle of the biscuit!
I also made some huge heart ones!
I think they turned out pretty well! However, some of them had little bits of biscuit trapped in the sugar! I think this may have been caused by the cocoa powder melting when the sugar got really hot. Next time I think I will try using a gingerbread recipe instead and see if that makes a difference!
In the next few days I will be updating again with some more Christmas biscuits, so stay tuned!
Thanks for reading!
