Chocolate biscuits on a stick

 

Preparation time: 30 minutes plus 1 hour cooling

Difficulty: Middle

Yield: 20

 

Ingredients for the biscuits:

·       100 g butter

·       80 g corn sugar

·       2 egg yolks

·       ¼ tsp ground cinnamon

·       Pinch of salt

·       200 g spelt flour

·       1/8 tsp baking powder

·       30 g cocoa powder

 

Ingredients for the chocolate filling:

·       150 g dark chocolate (low fructose)

·       40 ml double cream

 

 

Also: 20 Cake pop sticks or lolly pop sticks

 

Directions:

1. Cream the butter and sugar together
2. Add the egg yolks, cinnamon and salt and beat further     
3. Sieve the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder together and add to the mixture
4. Carefully mix to a dough. If the dough is too sticky, add a bit more flour
5. Knead shortly with your hand and wrap the dough in clingfilm
6. Put the dough in the fridge for approx 1 hour
7. Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees and put greaseproof paper on a baking tray
8. Roll the dough out between 2 pieces of greaseproof paper, until it is 4 cm thick
9. With a biscuit cutter of your choice, cut out biscuits and place on the prepared baking tray
10. If you wish, you can use a biscuit stamp to personify your biscuits 
11. Bake the biscuits for approx. 12 minutes in the oven
12. Remove and leave to cool 
13. In the meantime, make the chocolate filling
14. Melt the chocolate with the cream in a water bath. Keep stirring and make sure the mixture doesn´t get too hot
15. Let the chocolate mixture cool down and then fill in a piping bag with nozzle
16. Pipe the chocolate mixture on the inside of half the biscuits
17. Add a wooden stick in the middle and carefully position another biscuit on top
18. Press lightly together
19. Leave the biscuits in the fridge to harden
20. Enjoy 😊