Chocolate teddy biscuits

Last we time we had a certain 3-year-old on visit here we made chocolate biscuits using our new teddy cookie cutter. Did our 3-year-old visitor enjoy them? His response: one more please!

Chocolate teddy biscuits

Dry ingredients: 200 gr plain flour, 1 tablespoon cocoa, pinch salt

110 gr butter

110 gr sugar

beaten egg to mix

Sieve dry ingredients into a bowl.

Add butter in small pieces, rub into the mix with finger tips until crumbly.

Stir in sugar.

Add enough egg to bind the mixture to a stiff dough.

Knead on table top with sprinkled flour with a little cocoa blended in.

Roll and cut out shapes with cookie cutter.

Place on oven tray with baking paper.

Bake 10-15 mins at 190 C.

Cool on tray then rack.

Recipe from:

Marguerite Patten / Leila Howard. Step-by-step cookery. Paul Hamlyn, London, for the Australian Women's Weekly. 1964 edition.