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Chocolate Digestives

August 13, 2017 By Amy 8 Comments

Chocolate Digestives

Have you been watching Inside The Factory on BBC? It’s right up my little boys street, seeing as they want to know how everything in the world is made! The most recent one we watched was on Chocolate Digestive biscuits and of course, we had to try them for ourselves.

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If you have seen Inside the Factory you’ll know that the process behind the famous McVities Chocolate Digestives is quite a complex and hi-tech one, not something you’d be able to mimic at home! That being said, if you don’t have a chocolate river or a precise measuring system for your biscuits, fear not! Baking our Chocolate Digestives at home couldn’t be easier.

In fact, this was one of those recipes I was more than happy to bake with the kids. It’s a simple bung everything in the bowl, give it a mix, roll it, bake it and eat them! What more could you ask from in a biscuit?

Chocolate Digestives

Chocolate Digestives
2017-08-13 14:13:58
Yields 16
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Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
20 min
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
20 min
Ingredients
  1. 225g Wholemeal Flour
  2. 30g Caster Sugar
  3. 140g Butter
  4. 1 Egg (beaten)
  5. ½ tsp Vanilla (extract or paste)
  6. 100g Chocolate
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat your oven to 170°c and grease a couple of baking sheets with a little butter.
  2. Rub together the flour, sugar and butter in a large bowl until it resembles breadcrumbs.
  3. Add the egg and vanilla and mix together to form a dough.
  4. On a floured surface, roll your doigh to a few millimetres thickness and cut with a cookie cutter to your desired biscuit size (around 7cm is ideal).
  5. Transfer your biscuits to your pre-greased baking sheets and bake for 20 minutes until slightly golden and dry in appearance.
  6. Allow to cool on the tray for a short while before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
  7. Melt the milk chocolate in a small bowl (over a bain-marie or in short bursts in a microwave) and gently dip the bottom side of your biscuits into the chocolate - allowing the excess to drip away - before finishing with a squiggle decoration with a fork.
Notes
  1. The chocolate is really an optional extra. Should you wish to make normal digestives instead, just leave the chocolate off.
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Comments

  1. Donna says

    August 15, 2017 at 5:07 pm

    Oh my gosh these look incredible! x

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  2. Angela / Only Crumbs Remain says

    August 17, 2017 at 8:21 am

    I just love those ‘how to programmes’ too – they’re absolutely fascinating! I seem to have missed the one about digestives – and yet I think they’re one of my favourite biscuits even though there’s nothing particularly fancy about a plain digestive. Just loving the way you’ve finished the chocolate with the squiggles Amy! :-)
    Angela

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  3. Alyssa says

    August 18, 2017 at 2:04 pm

    What a great idea! This is the first time I’ve ever seen a recipe for these. Thanks!

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  4. Kat (The Baking Explorer) says

    August 27, 2017 at 2:29 pm

    They look fantastic and so neat!

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  5. Cat says

    September 1, 2017 at 7:36 pm

    These look better than shop bought ones! So tasty looking x

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  6. Sylvia says

    January 5, 2019 at 2:38 pm

    Just made these for the first time, left them plain because we’re not overly chocolatey and they are just a perfect biscuit. Will be making these again, for sure.

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  7. Sarah says

    March 15, 2019 at 4:30 am

    I absolutely love digestive cookies but they are so hard to find! Now I can make them myself!

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