Chocolate & Vanilla Marble Biscuits
Ingredients
Chocolate Dough:
60g Unsalted Butter - Cold
25g Icing Sugar
Pinch of Salt
1 Egg
20g Ground Almonds
85g Plain Flour
10g Cocoa Powder
Vanilla Dough:
60g Unsalted Butter - Cold
25g Icing Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract or equivalent
Pinch of Salt
1 Egg
20g Ground Almonds
85g Plain Flour
Method
For this recipe we make two separate flavoured doughs and then combine then to make the final biscuit.
Chocolate Dough:
1. Cut the cold butter into cubes.
2. Put the flour into a mixing bowl, add the cubed butter and then rub it in with your fingers until you get a mixture that looks like breadcrumbs with no visible lumps of butter.
3. Next you beat the egg in a cup with the salt and put this into the mixture, and mix together.
4. In a separate bowl, mix the ground almonds with the icing sugar and the cocoa powder.
5. Combine all the ingredients together, mix thoroughly until it forms dough.
6. Place the dough onto some cling film, press gently until it forms a disc. Wrap and place in the fridge to rest and chill for at least 30 minutes.
Vanilla Dough:
1. Cut the cold butter into cubes.
2. Put the flour into a mixing bowl, add the cubed butter and then rub it in with your fingers until you get a mixture that looks like breadcrumbs with no visible lumps of butter.
3. Next you beat the egg in a cup with the salt and the vanilla extract, and then place this mixture into the butter and flour mixture, and mix thoroughly.
4. In a separate bowl, mix the ground almonds with the icing sugar.
5. Combine all the ingredients together, mix thoroughly until it forms dough.
6. Place the dough onto some cling film, press gently until it forms a disc. Wrap and place in the fridge to rest and chill for at least 30 minutes.
Combining the mixtures and BAKE!:
1. The oven needs to be preheated to 180 C/Gas Mark 4 (drop the heat a little if using a fan oven)
2. Make sure you prepare your baking tray with some baking parchment or thoroughly greasing it, you don’t want your biscuits to stick.
3. Now the exciting bit as you combine the vanilla and chocolate dough together.
4. First grab a piece (doesn’t have to be weighed or perfect) of chocolate dough and roll it into a at little sausage, then do the same with a piece of the vanilla and squash them together! Next, another chocolate, another vanilla and so on until everything is squashed together in a multi-coloured lump.
5. Take your multi-coloured lump of dough and roll it into a neat, fat sausage. Don’t worry about any gaps, and treat it all gently. This doesn’t need to be kneaded like bread, just gently squashed & rolled into shape.
6. When you have something that looks like a salami, then cut little, equal sized discs from this sausage and place them on to the baking tray. You’re looking for biscuits about 2.5 cm in diameter, but the shape is really up to you, there are no rules apart from making sure they are about 0.5cm thick.
7. Finally you are ready to bake. Depending on the thickness, they should take between 10-15 minutes to bake.
8. When baked, turn these lovely cookies onto a wire rack to cook.
9. Eat & Enjoy!
