Bitter after Dinner Bites

Name: Bitter after Dinner Bites
Yield: Makes 50–60 Small Biscuits
Ingredients: 120 g unsalted butter, at room temperature; 130 g plain flour; 100 g caster sugar; a pinch of table salt; 30 g cocoa powder; ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda; 80 g very high cocoa content (85% if possible) chocolate, grated or very finely chopped; demerara sugar for sprinkling; 2 tsp milk

Preparation info

Makes
50–60
Small Biscuits

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Vegetarian Kitchen

By Prue Leith and Peta Leith

Published 2019

About

These are very grown-up chocolate biscuits – dark and intensely cocoa-y, with a crunchy topping of demerara sugar to make them just sweet enough. This recipe makes a lot, but they freeze brilliantly, so it’s worth keeping a roll of raw dough in the freezer for next time the need strikes.

Ingredients

120 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
100 g caster sugar
130

Vegetarian
Cookies

Method

Cream the butter and caster sugar together in a bowl just until smooth, then add the flour, cocoa powder, salt and bicarbonate of soda. Mix to form a crumbly dough, then add the milk and stir to incorporate.
Mix in the dark chocolate, and stir just enough to distribute it evenly through the dough. Do not work the dough any more than necessary.
Roll th