Today I decided chocolate would be a good solution and did a bit of baking, adapted from a recipe given by The Tiny Marmalade.
Here you go. My version, because I only had one bar of dark chocolate in the cupboard. I am not sure whether they are cake or biscuit really. Somewhere in between. They crack in a very pleasing way as they bake and are good dunkers. And they definitely fulfil the need for a chocolate hit.
Ingredients
60g of butter
100g of dark plain chocolate
3 eggs (although one was a weeny one)
130g of sugar
Two tablespoons of cocoa powder
200g self raising flour
A few tablespoons of icing sugar
Melt the butter and chocolate together. Set the pan aside till the mixture has cooled down.
Mix sugar and eggs to a foam. Mix in lukewarm chocolate and butter. Add sifted flour and cocoa.
Cover the bowl and shove it in the fridge for a few hours.
Put the oven on at 170˚C. Use a couple of desert spoons and excavate clods of the stiff mixture. Using your hands, roll the mixture into balls a bit bigger than a large walnut, and then roll them in icing sugar. The mixture is quite forgiving and easy to roll. If it gets sticky, put it back in the fridge for a while.
Put on a baking sheet and bake for 12-15 minutes - don't over do them.
Makes about 24, depending on how big your balls are :)
