Dark Chocolate Orange Bourbons

9th February, 2015

Its been a while. I felt a real need to bake this week. I've been craving chocolate all weekend so I found a nice chocolatey recipe for biscuits in Crumb.

Things started off well and was fairly easy. Mix the flour and cocoa powder, rub in the butter, and stir in the remaining dry ingredients caster sugar and orange zest.

Aaaaaaand with the next step I really messed up the recipe. I misread the quantity of milk as 300ml instead of 30ml. Fortunately I only added 100ml to begin with and immediately noticed my mistake. No biscuit dough should be that runny! Doh! In an attempt to save the recipe I mixed up a third more of the original dry ingredients to stir in but this only helped a little. I used a small amount of corn flour to stiffen it a little more and wrapped the runniest biscuit dough of all time into cling film as best I could. I resolved to leave this for an hour to chill.

In the meantime I mixed the butter icing for the middle of the biscuits, which consisted of butter, cocoa powder, orange zest and icing sugar. This, incidentally, is very tasty and I could have easily just eaten it all with a spoon.

As the dough was still quite runny I decided to bake one large biscuit on a tray and cut it up after baking. It was, however, firm enough that spreading it out onto the tray was slightly tricky. The "biscuits" baked for 12-15mins and were left to cool on a cooling rack.

I cut up the cooled biscuit into roughly bourbon sized pieces, noticing that some were really thin and some much chunkier. After another epic fail with the piping bag, (this time I at least assembled it correctly, but the mixture was far too runny and just came straight out the other side!), I just poured on the icing and shoved it all in the fridge to chill and set while I went out. I had no idea what to expect when I got in.

Sooooo, that happened. I got a B grade from my boyfriend. He said: 

"So this stuff is neither cake nor biscuit but the icing is delicious so I'm giving it a solid B grade."

And he's right. They're definitely satisfying my chocolate needs right now but I must do better next time!