These simple chocolate biscuits are the right Christmas deal with that each children and adults will love. Get the entire household concerned with ornament

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:30 minutes
  • Prepare dinner:10 minutes
  • plus cooling
• Simple
• Makes 50

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Components

• 270g plain flour
• 50g cocoa powder
• 120g icing sugar
• 150g butter
• 2 eggs

For adornment

• melted chocolate or piping icing, sugar pearls, sprinkles

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Technique

• STEP 1

  Combine the flour, cocoa, icing sugar and a pinch of salt in a bowl. Rub within the butter after which combine in eggs. Knead rapidly together with your palms to a clean dough. Wrap in foil, press right into a flat disc and chill for half-hour.

• STEP 2

  Warmth the oven to 180C/fan 160C/fuel 4. Line a few baking sheets with baking parchment. Roll out the pastry on a frivolously floured worksurface to about 3mm skinny. Reduce out shapes from the dough. Put the biscuits on the baking sheets – it’s greatest to place equally sized cookies collectively. Bake for 7-10 minutes, relying on the dimensions of the biscuits.

• STEP 3

  Knead the off-cuts of the dough collectively and chill once more for quarter-hour. Roll, lower and bake as earlier than. Cool fully.

• STEP 4

  When cooled, the cookies will be embellished with chocolate or icing and sugar pearls and sprinkles.