About the bake
Get creative and wow your friends and family with these fun chocolate and vanilla chequerboard biscuits. These trendy biscuits are delicious and would be a great star bake to share at your next coffee morning.
Method
Step 1:
Sieve the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl and set aside. In a large bowl cream the butter and sugar until pale. Beat in the eggs one at a time followed by vanilla extract.
Step 2:
Add the flour to the butter mix and mix until just combined. Split the mixture into two and add the cocoa powder to one half.
Step 3:
Wrap both doughs in cling film and chill for at least an hour.
Step 4:
On 2 sheets of non-stick baking parchment draw a 7 x 5 inch rectangle and flip the paper over so the ink is facing down. Unwrap the dough and place in the middle of each rectangle. Place another sheet of baking paper on top of the dough and roll out the dough to fit within the marked rectangle. Use the edge of a knife to push the dough into the shape of the rectangle and try to ensure it is flat, even and as neat as possible. Do this for both doughs.
Step 5:
Remove the top parchment and cut each rectangle into 3 equal strips, cutting across the long edge. Place 3 strips of dough on top of each other, alternating with vanilla and chocolate dough so you end up with 2 long slabs of dough, 3 strips high. Cut each slab again long ways into 3 equal strips. Remove the centre strip from each slab and place into the other slab so you have 2 slabs forming 9 small alternating rectangles cross-wise. Wrap each slab in cling film and chill for another 30 mins.
Step 6:
Preheat the oven to 170°C (150°C fan, gas mark 3). Remove the dough from the fridge, unwrap and slice each log cross-wise into biscuits, approx. ¼ inch thick.
Step 7:
Place your biscuits onto a non-stick baking parchment and bake for 12 mins per batch. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a wire rack.
Ingredients
- 180g Butter (unsalted) (softened)
- 200g Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
- 2 Egg(s) (free range) (medium)
- 1 tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
- 400g Allinson's plain white flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1 tsp Salt
- 3 tbsp Cocoa powder
Utensils
- Sieve
- Bowl
- Cling film
- Baking parchment
Recipe Reviews
These biscuits were delicious and looked great! They were quite time consuming but definitely worth it. I halved the recipe and got 26!
I had spare dough so I made extra cookies 🍪 to
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Looks interesting I'm going to try them
Hard!!
Harder than it looks! I had lots of spare dough so I made 14 usual cookies and cooked them for 8 minutes 🍪✅
Ingredients
- 180g Butter (unsalted) (softened)
- 200g Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
- 2 Egg(s) (free range) (medium)
- 1 tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
- 400g Allinson's plain white flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1 tsp Salt
- 3 tbsp Cocoa powder
Utensils
- Sieve
- Bowl
- Cling film
- Baking parchment