Bean to Bat Halloween Biscuit Recipe
Trick or treating might be off the menu this year, but our Halloween Bat biscuit recipe is something you can make and enjoy from home!
Created by Lucocoa team member Susan, we urge you to give these deliciously rich chocolate biscuits a go!
Post your creations using the tag #LucocoaBats for a chance to be featured on our Instagram page!
Ingredients:
50g of your favourite Lucocoa dark chocolate*
40g butter
55g coconut sugar
1 tsp molasses (optional, but it will make your biscuits nice and dark and crisp)
1/2 an egg
75g plain flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon
Break up the chocolate and melt it carefully in a little bowl over hot water. Take it off the heat to cool down a bit.
Line two baking trays with non-stick paper.
Weigh out the butter and sugar in one bowl. Add the molasses, if you are using it.
Break an egg and whisk it till it’s liquid enough to divide in half.
Sieve the flour, baking powder and cinnamon together.
Tip your slightly cooled chocolate into the butter and sugar, using a spatula to make sure you get every last precious drop. Beat your mixture till it’s smooth, then pour in the half egg and and the flour mixture and stir it all together thoroughly. Gather it all into one splodgy lump, wrap it in cling film and put it in the fridge for forty minutes. Coffee time.
Heat your oven to 175 degrees. Get your dough out of the fridge and roll it out thin between two sheets of non-stick baking paper.
Peel off one of the sheets of paper and cut out your bats. Slip a knife blade under each to lift them carefully onto the baking sheets. Next time you’ll make little hearts: much easier! But don’t worry if your bats come apart; just pinch them back together and the join will seal as they cook. Gather the dough and roll it out again for more. Use any leftover dough to roll into small balls and flatten them into little round biscuits to cook alongside your bats.
Put your biscuits in the oven. Check them after 7 minutes; they may need just one or two minutes more. Let them sit on their baking sheets for five minutes, then move them onto a rack to cool completely before you decorate them.
Store in an airtight container. Your bats should keep for a few days - but ours don’t get the chance. Happy Halloween!