How to make Chocolate Orange Cream Biscuits

You will need:

For Biscuits:

250g Plain Flour

100g Caster Sugar

150g Butter

1 Egg

2 tbsp Cocoa Powder

For Filling:

175g Icing Sugar

50 Butter

1 Orange (or 1 tbsp orange juice)

Method:

1. Firstly, in a bowl, cream together your butter and sugar.

2. Then add the egg and mix together.

3. Then add the flour and cocoa powder and mix until it forms a dough.

4. Roll out your biscuit dough on a floured surface, until its about half a cm thick.

5. The cut out your biscuits, I used a 5cm circle cutter. You want to cut an even number of biscuits.

6. Place your biscuits on a tray lined with baking paper, leaving space between each biscuit as they will expand.

7. The in a pre-heated oven at Gas 4, 180C or 160 fan assisted bake for about 12 -15 minutes.

8. While the biscuits are cooling we will make the filling. In a bowl, add your icing sugar and grate the zest of the orange into it.

9. Then juice the orange and keep to one side.

10. Add your butter (at room temperature) and push down with a fork until it resembles breadcrumbs (you can use a mixer if you have one).

11. Then add 1 tbsp of orange juice and mix until creamy.

12. Once the biscuits are cooled, put a teaspoon of filling on a biscuit and press 2nd biscuit on top to sandwich them together.