Flake Biscuits

For a very long time I’ve been drooling over the Flake Biscuits that I see all my fellow bakers posting on social media. I believed it was time I attempted them for myself.

Flake Biscuits

I’m not positive who the unique creator of this recipe is, whoever it’s, thanks for the inspiration.

My hubby has a candy tooth and something that has chocolate is at all times a winner for him. When he noticed these his eyes lit up and he was having tea each night simply so he can eat a number of.

Possibly I’m bizarre however I’m not loopy about candies. I’ve a few my favourites and I stick with these.

Flake is on my checklist of favourites and I liked these biscuits. Nevertheless, for me it’s every little thing sparsely.

I want I may say the identical for my candy loving husband. I assume that’s why we’re married as a result of opposites appeal to…haha!

Of late, I’ve been baking rather a lot. It’s a part I am going via.

There are occasions I’m tremendous enthusiastic about baking and I bake virtually on a regular basis. There’s occasions when weeks go by and I don’t wish to even take into consideration baking.

I see lots of bloggers that say they’ve a schedule and so they plan what they’re going to work on. I’m the exact opposite, spontaneous is what I’m.

If I get up within the morning and I’ve a recipe in my head I’ll go straight to the kitchen and begin baking. Properly, if it doesn’t work out then I attempt once more that very same afternoon.

While I’m within the temper I really feel like I’ve to maintain going or I’ll lose “momentum”. So should you see an entire lot of baked items on my house web page you already know why.

For these Flake Biscuits I used the same recipe to my Date Roll Biscuit as a result of I liked that texture and I felt it would work nice for this recipe too.

I’m not a fantastic decorator. Nevertheless, I do love fairly and neat wanting biscuits or cookies.

It’s one of many the explanation why I stick with easy. If I do know I can totally deal with the talent degree of sure baked items then I’ll try it.

There’s some issues I wish to attempt however the complexity of it places me off. It’s why some recipes by no means make it to my weblog.

Possibly sooner or later I’ll shock you and make extra extravagant bakes. I do know I can if I actually set my thoughts to it.

I hope I can even create a cookbook with easy however decadent bakes. As a result of I do know what a battle baking might be for a few of us.

Getting a writer to publish my e book will likely be a problem I assume. I’ve labored on a e book for a very long time and I feel I’ve carried out fairly nicely on my weblog.

So I assumed it will be straightforward to discover a writer however that’s proving to be fairly a problem. Nevertheless, I’m not giving up that simply.

If all else fails I’ll take into consideration self-publishing. That will likely be a activity, contemplating the primary writer I despatched my stuff to advised me to not waste my time capturing my very own pictures as they received’t use them.

Now I remorse listening to her. I ought to have continued with my images and simply possibly I might have been midway there.

My ardent followers would know I’m not a quitter so sometime I’ll strike this dream off my bucket checklist. The whole lot in life occurs when it’s meant to occur.

On that observe let’s get to my flake biscuits

Substances Required

For these flake biscuits you will have butter, sugar, cake wheat flour, cornflour,cocoa, vanilla, flake chocolate and a few regular chocolate for sticking the flake

Tips on how to make these biscuits

You cream the butter and sugar till gentle and fluffy. Add cocoa, cornflour and the cake wheat flour.

You then roll out the doing and minimize them right into a sq. form. Reduce them into little finger shapes.

To stop them from spreading I pop them again into the fridge for about quarter-hour. It’s then baked, cooled and adorned.

Sadly flake doesn’t soften in addition to different candies. You due to this fact will want some plain chocolate for adorning.

I used some Cadbury dairy milk chocolate and it labored effective. I received about 52 little biscuits from this small amount of dough.

Flake Biscuits

A chocolatey biscuit topped with decadent flake chocolate

125 gram butter
1/2 cup icing sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
2 tbsp cocoa powder sifted
1/4 cup cornflour
1 cup cake wheat flour
6 flake candies
200 gram chocolate, I used Cadbury dairy milk for dipping the biscuit

Preheat oven to 160 levels celsius
Beat butter and sugar till gentle and fluffy
Combine within the vanilla essence and sifted cocoa. Add the cornflour and cake wheat flour and blend till you kind a agency however pliable dough
Divide the dough into 3 items. Roll every one into an oblong form
Reduce them into little rectangular shapes. I minimize mine about 1.5cm in width and about 11cm lengthy. It does not must be the scale I minimize them. Roughly is ok
Place the biscuits on a baking sheet and refrigerate for quarter-hour
Bake for 10 minutes or till you’ll be able to odor them
Permit them to chill fully on a cooling rack. Soften the chocolate at 30 second increments within the microwave. Combine it nicely and dip every biscuit into the chocolate. Should you can, minimize the flake in half down the center, and divide them into three items. In the event that they crumble sprinkle the crumbs on high of every biscuit
Retailer in an hermetic container for as much as every week

I at all times use salted butter in my baking. I do know some want unsalted as a result of salt content material. I personally do not suppose it makes such an enormous distinction
You’ll be able to double this recipe as I made a small batch
I used the traditional sized flake candies however you should utilize the mini ones. Woolworths shares them, nevertheless this time I could not discover any
I used Cadbury’s dairy milk