Chocolate Digestive Biscuits
Homemade chocolate digestive biscuits, a true British classic! Whole wheat biscuits with a rich chocolate topping. Easy to make and even easier to enjoy.
Servings: 12
Equipment
Ingredients
- 225 g Wholemeal Flour (Whole Wheat Flour)
- 30 g Caster Sugar (Superfine Sugar)
- 140 g Butter or Block Margarine cold
- 1 Free-range Egg beaten
- ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
- 100 g Milk Chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 170°c (150°c for fan-assisted ovens, Gas Mark 3 or 350°F) and grease a couple of baking sheets with a little excess butter/margarine.
- Rub together the flour, sugar and butter/margarine in a large bowl until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add the beaten egg and vanilla and mix together to form a dough.
- On a floured surface, roll your dough to a few millimetres thick and cut with a cookie cutter to your desired biscuit size - around 7cm (3-inch) is ideal.
- Transfer your biscuits to your pre-greased baking sheets and bake for 20 minutes until slightly golden and dry in appearance.
- Allow to cool on the tray for a short while before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- 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
- See my Tips for Biscuit Success above for more tips for the perfect Chocolate Digestive biscuits.
- Chocolate Digestive biscuits are best enjoyed the day they are baked, but they can be stored in an airtight container for a few days. The texture may change over a few days - this is normal for home-baked biscuits.
- If you want to freeze your Chocolate Digestives, I recommend freezing the dough before baking. You can freeze the entire dough or divide it into batches. Remove the dough from the freezer and defrost it at room temperature before baking. Then bake and finish with chocolate as normal.
- See the Free-from & Vegan box below for tips on how to make your Chocolate Digestive cookies vegan or free-from.
