Pudsey bear biscuits and real hot chocolate

1 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
150 grams Plain flour
50 grams Caster sugar
½ teaspoon Ground cinnamon
Grated rind of 1 orange
100 grams Softened butter; cut into cubes
1 small Piec ready-to-roll icing
Few drops of red food colouring
Flour; for dusting
1 can Fresh squirty cream
1 pint Milk
1 pinch Ground cinnamon
100 grams Good quality dark chocolate
2 tablespoons Sugar

Directions

FOR TWO SERVINGS OF HOT CHOC

Preheat oven to 350f/180c/Gas 4.

1 For the Biscuits: Place the flour, sugar, ground cinnamon and grated orange zest into a mixing bowl and combine together with a fork.

2 Add the pieces of cut-up butter to the flour and rub in with clean fingers, until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Work the dough until it comes together in a ball and turn out onto a floured surface.

3 Roll the dough out thinly (2-3mm thick) and use a cutter to cut out as many Pudsey Bears as you can. Gather together the trimmings and re-roll, until all the dough is used up. Put on a baking tray with a fish slice and bake in the oven for eight minutes.

4 Measure the milk into your mugs, leaving room for the chocolate, and pour into a small saucepan. Add a pinch of cinnamon, place the pan over a gentle heat and bring to the boil.

5 Grate a little of the chocolate onto a plate and set aside. Roughly chop half the remainder with a knife and set aside a few of the pieces to make Pudsey's nose and buttons.

6 Whisk the chocolate pieces and sugar into the milk, until the chocolate is all melted. Remove the biscuits from the oven and carefully transfer them to a cooling rack with a fish slice.

7 Pop the pieces of chocolate into the warm biscuits to make Pudsey's nose and buttons - don't worry about the shape as the chocolate will melt into a neat circle. Using the ready-to-roll icing and food colouring, make Pudsey's eye, feet and spotty scarf and place onto the biscuits.

8 Pour the hot chocolate into a mug, pipe a swirl of cream on top, sprinkle with the grated chocolate and serve with the biscuits on a plate dusted with grated chocolate.

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NOTES : Makes 6-8 biscuits

Recipe by: Can't Cook Won't Cook Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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