After the chocolate cake, the next chocolate bake for my nephew and niece (S & S) was bourbon biscuits. I had bookmarked Nina's recipe as soon as it was posted. As with many other bookmarked recipes, it remained in the to-be-tried list. So when S & S was here, I thought this is the best time to give that a try. And it will surely be a hit with the kids. My niece was truly thrilled to see the look-alike of bourbon biscuits. He was falling short of words to express his feelings. For the first batch, I cut the dough into rectangles and sandwiched two bsicuits with chocolate cream. The second batch I cut with cookie cutter. In the hurry to make, I forgot to prick some holes and sprinkle sugar on top to resemble the store bought ones. For the second batch, I remembered coat with sugar. The glee on their eyes with the first bite said it all.
You need
All purpose flour - 1 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Butter - 1/4 cup
Baking soda -1/4 tspn
Honey - 1 tspn
Baking powder -1 tspn
Cocoa powder - 3 tblspn
Vanilla essence - 2 tspn
Cold milk - 4 tblspn
Method
Cream butter and suga until light and fluffy. Add essence, honey and baking soda. Seive together flour, cocoa and baking powder. Fold in the dry ingredients into butter vream mix. Bring together the dough. Roll into a rectangle on a lightly floured surface. Cut into bars of sixe 3 " x 1/2 ".
Bake in a preheated oven at 180 C for 15 minutes. Though the cookies are brown in color, you can make out from the color change from a dark to pale brown on cooking. The timings may change depending on the thickness of the cookies. Cool the cookies before filling with the chocolate cream.
For the filling
Butter -1/4 cup
Icing sugar -1/3 cup
Cocoa powder - 1 tspn
Vanila essence - few drops.
Beat all the ingredients together till its creamy. Sandwich two biscuits with the cream and press lightly. It sets very fast.
Have a look at the bookmarks made by my neice, S , for me.
