It's very rare I buy biscuits for the house as I usually make them, apart from boring digestives for things like cheesecake. If I do buy biscuits I adore Green & Blacks ginger biscuits. Unfortunately I can't find them anywhere and they no longer feature on the G&B website. They were crispy biscuits with a strong ginger kick and dipped in 70% dark chocolate. With a sweet craving, that a horrible microwave jam sponge wasn't going to hit, I decided to play around with some store cupboard ingredients to try and emulate the delicious G&B biscuit.
Not in the mood for faffing around with dipping the biscuits I chopped up a 70% G&B bar and stirred it into the biscuit dough. They worked well even if they do look a bit ugly. They have a noticeable ginger taste, but I would be quite happy to double the amount of ginger and even try it with stem ginger. You'd never guess I like my ginger! I've enjoyed these with my mid morning cuppa...and have been trying to sneak some while Hubby isn't looking.
Ginger & Dark Chocolate Biscuits
Makes approx 20
115g softened butter or margarine
50g granulated sugar
70g muscovado sugar
1 egg
125g plain flour
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp ground ginger (double if you like lots of ginger)
75g 70% dark chocolate, chopped
1) Preheat the oven to 180oc. Beat together butter and the two sugars until light and fluffy. Then gently beat in the egg, flour, bicarb and ginger. Fold in chocolate.
2) On a lined baking tray, blob teaspoons of the mixture. As these spread leave about 3cm between each biscuit. Bake for 10, until golden.
3) After baking, transfer straight away to a wire rack to harden. You'll probably need something like a fish slice to move them as before they have hardened they are quite floppy.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Ginger & Dark Chocolate Biscuits
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Looks scrummy
ReplyDeleteThese look lovely! I'm a big ginger fan too :)
ReplyDeleteHave you ever had the dark chocolate covered ginger biscuits from M&S? I wholeheartedly recommend them, utterly mouth watering :D
Katie xox
Pass them over here RIGHT NOW! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of ginger in these cookies.
ReplyDeleteLooks yumm too.
I bet these taste wonderful. I love the green and blacks biscuits too. My favourite is the coconut one dipped in chocolate, but like you have found, they are almost impossible to find now. I wonder y? They r so good.
ReplyDeleteI used to love thos G&B biscuits too, chocolate and ginger is such a great combination.
ReplyDeleteThese look lovely, not ugly at all!
Mmm they look so delicious, I love choc ginger combo
ReplyDeleteDelicious with the addition of the ginger in there!
ReplyDeleteThey look delicious. I have added them to my recipes I want to try links section - plan to bake these soon - will try doubling the ginger! My boyfriend loves ginger biscuits and dark chocolate so combining the two is a must bake.
ReplyDeleteThose look fantastic. I never thought of that combination but I bet it's yummy.
ReplyDeleteI'm getting worried that your diet consists entirely of baked goods.....tho every single one always looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteThank you for all your comments. If anyone has a go at baking these, let me know how you get on.
ReplyDeleteKatie - I'll have to try the M&S versions.
Heavenly Housewife - I'm wondering if they have discontinued them as they are no longer on the website :(
Goodshoeday - mmm it does look like I only eat cake/biscuits! I promise I do eat other things, but they are boring and more often than not at the moment I've blogged about them before.
yum!
ReplyDeleteI adore ginger too - how scrumptious these biscuits look.
ReplyDeleteUgly? No way! Rustic and delicious more like...
ReplyDeleteJust keep on trying.. but this one already look so good.. keep up the good work..
ReplyDeleteI think I'm on the same mission Jules. The biscuits I'm trying to emulate are Borders Dark Chocolate and Ginger biscuits. They're sold in Sainsburys and are perfect - really nice and hot ginger enrobed in lovely dark chocolate. This should hopefully work as a web address if you copy and paste - it's for Sains website http://www.sainsburys.com/groceries/index.jsp?bmUID=1243269138895
ReplyDeleteSadly I haven't yet managed to make something similar, but I'll jot down your recipe to try! Were they crispy once they'd cooled?
J.Danger, Antonia, beach houses - Thank you :)
ReplyDeleteAlex - I'm liking the word "rustic" ;)
C - I haven't tried the Boarders ones. I wouldn't describe these biscuits as being as crunchy like a ginger nut. They do begin to soften a few days after baking.
These look lovely Jules!
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