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MY MUM'S CHOCOLATE CONCRETE BISCUITS

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Serves: 6-8

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a local ledgedary school pudding where i grew up was 'chocolate concrete and pink cement' - basically a very hard crunchy chocolate biscuit served warm with pink custard. This is my mums take on the recipe which i have recently rediscovered and am now addicted to making you can roll the dough to normal biscuit thickness and make as cut out cookies or leave it thicker and cook in a baking tray to be sliced up and served warm out of the oven

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Ingredients

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  • 1 packet chocolate blancmange powder (other flavours could be used if you wanted)
  • 225 grams plain flour (I'd reduce this by however much your blancmange powder weighs - mine is usually about 55g so I use only 170g flour)
  • 140 grams butter
  • 55 grams caster sugar

Method

  1. Mix the blancmange power and the flour together, rub in the butter until it is breadcrumb consistency add it the sugar and form into a rollable dough.
  2. Roll out and shape as you wish - bake at 190 degrees for 15-20 minutes - leave a little longer than normally would for biccies - they do harden on cooling but the idea is they are really crunchy.
  3. Serve warm with custard or cold as normal biscuits as you wish - nostalgia heaven for me!

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