In this video tutorial I am going to share with you this chocolate biscuit recipe for cutters. Making biscuits from scratch is fun and simple. It’s also a great thing to bake with kids. .

You can make it a day ahead and put it in the fridge to get ahead of other things if you have guests coming over.

Ingredients

• 170 grams softened butter
• 170 grams caster sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 large egg
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 280 grams plain flour
• 20 grams cocoa powder

Method for chocolate biscuit recipe for cutters

• Cream the butter and sugar together
• Add the vanilla extract
• Add the egg and mix
• Finally add the flour, cocoa powder and salt and mix well into a dough ball.
• Put the dough in cling film, and flatten it, put it in the fridge until it firms up and becomes easy to roll
• Dust your work surface with cocoa powder/flour and roll out your dough then cut out your shapes with a biscuit cutter
• Gather up all remaining chocolate biscuit dough and shape into more biscuits until all your dough is used up
• Put them on a biscuit tray and put them in the fridge to firm up before baking.
• Ten minutes before they are ready preheat the oven to 180 Celsius and then bake the biscuits for 10-12 minutes. Check on them so that they do not brown too quickly
• Put the biscuits on a cooling rack to cool completely