Chocolate Christmas Trees Recipe

Chocolate Christmas Trees Recipe
  
The kids will love helping you decorate and eat these cute chocolate biscuit Christmas trees.

Preparation Time 15 minutes
Cooking Time 15 minutes
Makes 12
Equipment You'll need 12 paddle pop sticks and a tree-shaped cookie cutter.

Ingredients

1 quantity Basic biscuit dough ingredients (see related recipe)
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1 tablespoon milk
200g milk chocolate, melted
100g white chocolate, melted
Mini M&Ms, to decorate

Method

Follow step 1 of Basic biscuit recipe. Follow step 2, adding cocoa and milk with flour. Stir well. Complete steps 2 and 3.

Use a 12cm-long tree-shaped biscuit cutter to cut 12 biscuits from each circle of dough. Place onto trays. Refrigerate for 15 minutes or until firm. Bake for 15 minutes or until firm to touch. Stand for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Spread milk chocolate over flat side of each biscuit. Press 1 paddle pop stick onto 12 biscuits. Sandwich together with remaining biscuits. Refrigerate until firm.

Spoon white chocolate into a snap-lock bag. Snip off 1 corner. Pipe a zigzag pattern over trees. Decorate with M&Ms. Allow to set. Store in an airtight container.

Source
Super Food Ideas - December 2004, Page 47
Recipe by Dixie Elliott



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