Thursday, January 21, 2010

lola's late lollies

this recipe came from the december issue of 'favourites' a magazine someone bought lola to keep her occupied in the run up to christmas. we'd been planning to make the biscuit lollipops on christmas eve morning but as it turned out i was otherwise engaged as i was in the throes of labour! so lola ended up making them with chris, lucy and mum in the gap between christmas and new year and we enjoyed eating them at elsie's birthday party.

ours were christmas trees as per the recipe but we have since made them as hearts, snowflakes and clouds (we are eating a fair few biscuits to ward off the cold weather!). We have stopped sandwiching them together to make lollipops because, to tell the truth, it makes them disturbingly large! they are lovely as a single layer but if you do want to lollipop them use a bit more melted chocolate to stick 2 biscuits back to back with a lollipop stick (or a wooden coffee stirrer from a coffee shop) inbetween.
ingredients
225g self raising flour
100g caster sugar
3 tbsp cocoa powder
100g butter or margarine
5 tbsp milk
3 drops of vanilla extract
100-200g milk chocolate (depending on if you're making lollipops)
100g white chocolate
2 tubes of smarties or similar

method
1. preheat the oven to 190c and grease 2 baking trays
2. mix the flour, sugar, cocoa and rub in the butter.
3. add the vanilla and milk and mix well, combine the mixture with your hands and then knead on a lightly floured surface to form a dough.
4. roll the dough so its 0.5cm thick and use the cutters to make the biscuit shapes.
5.bake on the preprepared trays for 8-10 minutes. cool on a wire rack.
6. gently melt the milk chocolate, coat each biscuit- pair them up with the sticks if you are making lollipops, and let them set.
7. decorate with melted white chocolate and smarties.





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