African Vanielje on Jun 11 2008 at 10:54 pm | Filed under: baking, chocolate
Biscuits are one of the things I most enjoy making. Not least because I love to bake. Biscuits are versatile, varied and generally very easy. A delicious batch can be knocked up in no time from ingredients I almost always have on hand.
Most cookie doughs are not only addictively yummy eaten raw, but for those of you who do not follow the Stefanie Plum school of cookie (non)baking, biscuit dough also stores excellently in the freezer. This means that you can make a double batch and store half to be whipped out to prove your goddess like domesticity at the drop of your dkny flip flops, ready to add grace, panache and basic chocolate yumminess to a school coffee morning, an after dinner party espresso, or your #1 daughter’s after school Strawberry Sundae.
Fun cookie cutters are also a great way to get kids interested in helping you out in the kitchen. Well that’s my story anyway, and I’m sticking to it. For these Bitter Cocoa Butterflies I picked the summery motif for a biscuit which packs such punch it only needs to be served in bite size portions. This biscuit dough would also make fabulous round biscuits to sandwich your ice cream between. I love them with homemade strawberry, but a luscious vanilla, a coffee gelato or even a mint choc chip would all get my vote too.
Click here for the recipe for bitter cocoa biscuits or check out the vanielje kitchen cook book (vkcb) in the side bar.
I’m hoping one of those bitter cocoa butterflies fly my way!
I’m definitely going to try these, if I can get my hands on some good cocoa. I’ve never tried freezing cookie dough sounds like a clever domestic goddess trick to have up your sleeve - except we’d probably get through the double batch anyway, without leaving anything over to freeze!
Oh Inge - how gorgeous are those?! I never seem to bake pretty cookies - just kind of chunky ones. I keep dreaming that one day I will have a bigger kitchen and room for toys like cookie cutters…
Oh I would love to find those butterfly cutters, they would transform many types of cookies into real show stoppers. I’m of the “freeze for later domesticity goddess impressing” school too. It makes for and easier way of impressing drop in company, too.
Hello,
I like your website…, are you a professional pastry chef?
Butterfly cookies look really pretty. Same like you, I always make a double batch of dough, then freeze the other half. It become handy when my sister’s kids come over!
Jeni, they left last week, are they there yet?
Kit, I ate half a pound of raw dough before I went to gym the other day. It kind of defeats the purpose but was very yummy. I tend to eat less once they are baked, although they are just as yummy.
Jeanne, chunky cookies are good too. Kody baked some peanut butter shortbread cookies today. Remember the kind that you roll into a ball and squash down with a fork. They tasted pretty good.
Marla, send me your address and I’ll see if I can’t find some butterflies for you.
Hi Elra, welcome, and thanks for visiting. I am a chef, yes, but here I stick to stuff I make and eat at home. Cookies are always a good bonding thing to do with nephews and nieces.
I love these! I made some homemade graham crackers for kyrie with butterfly cutters…but chocolate..you know that is my weakness.
Our time is almost up..he leaves next week..so I should be back to my usual verbosity then.
Sorry I have been scarce. Oldest son is home for a month before he leaves for Japan for 3 years.
I am still a kid at heart because I adore cookies with whimsical shapes! Those cocoa butterflies look delicious!