As luck would have it Bear has had her heart set on making star biscuits over the past few days so we used her idea as inspiration for dessert for our picnic.
Rather than the usual sweet biscuit dough that we have used before the girls and I went through the Martha Stewart Cookie app that we have and chose a chocolate cookie recipe. The same recipe is here on the Martha Stewart website. We topped the star shaped biscuits with a simple chocolate icing (see my post on cupcakes for a basic icing recipe) and silver balls or silver and gold sanding sugar. A perfect accompaniment for all the twinkling lights we saw in the parade.
Chocolate Star Biscuits
Recipe from Martha Stewart
Makes 24
Ingredients
1 1/4 cups plain flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt (we left this out)
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 large egg
Directions
1. In a large bowl, mix together flour, cocoa powder and baking soda.
2. In a small bowl, whisk melted butter, sugar and egg.
3. Add the butter mixture to the flour mixture and mix until a dough forms.
4. Divide the dough in half and roll each half out between 2 sheets of non-stick baking paper.
5. Refrigerate dough for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius and line 2 baking trays with non-stick baking paper.
6. Use star shaped cutters to cut out star biscuits from dough and place on lined baking trays.
7. Bake biscuits for 8 to 10 minutes, rotating trays halfway through.
8. Cool biscuits on cooling rack before topping with icing and sprinkles.
Makes 24
Ingredients
1 1/4 cups plain flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt (we left this out)
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 large egg
Directions
5. Refrigerate dough for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius and line 2 baking trays with non-stick baking paper.
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