Recipe for Iced Chocolate Biscuits

A super treat for the kids on birthdays and other special occasions.

Ingredients:

110 grams Butter
60 grams Castor Sugar
110 grams Self Raising Flour
pinch of Salt
3 grams Sweetened Chocolate Powder

For Glace Icing:

450 grams Icing Sugar
1 Egg White
Food Colouring

Method:

Set the oven to 190 degrees Celsius.
Soften the butter in a bowl.
Work in the sugar with a wooden spoon.
Beat until light.
Sift the flour with a pinch of salt and the chocolate powder.
Sift the powder mixture a second time and then stir it into the butter mixture.
Roll the dough into small balls. When flattened these should be biscuit-sized.
Place the balls well apart on a greased baking tray and flatten with a wet fork.
Bake for 10 minutes.
Leave the biscuits on the baking tray for a further 2 minutes and then lift onto a wire rack to cool.

Glace Icing:

Sift 225 grams of icing sugar into a bowl and mix to a stiff paste with a little water. The water should be added 1 teaspoon at a time.
Stand the bowl in a basin of hot water and stir gently until the icing thins a little.
Coat each biscuit with the icing and leave it to set.

Decoration:

Sift the remaining icing sugar into a bowl.
Mix the egg white with a fork.
Beat in enough sifted icing sugar to give a very stiff mixture.
Mix in a bit of food colouring.
Pipe onto the biscuits.

Scrumptious!