Chocolate walnut biscuits
125g butter
¾ cup sugar
3 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk
100g dark chocolate
1¼ cups flour
¼ cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 cup chopped walnut pieces
Soften butter and place in a bowl with sugar and condensed milk. Break up chocolate and melt in the microwave or in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Do not allow the bowl to touch the water. Add melted chocolate to butter mixture. Mix until well-combined. Sift flour, cocoa, baking powder and baking soda over butter mixture. Add vanilla essence and walnut pieces and combine. Break off tablespoons of mixture. Roll into balls and place on a baking paper-lined oven tray. Press tops of biscuits with the back of a fork. Bake at 180 degrees C for 20 minutes or until cooked. Cool biscuits on a wire cake rack. When cold, drizzle chocolate over one side of each biscuit. Leave to set.
Makes 29
Drizzle
100g dark chocolate
Melt chocolate. Place in a small, plastic resealable bag. Snip one corner off the bag and use it as a piping bag to drizzle chocolate over biscuits.
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