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Chocolate Weetie Bickies

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I’ve always played with this biscuit recipe that my dear friend Georgie passed on to me years ago. I remember her saying it was from an old Marie Claire cookbook – remember those in a home kitchen!! Waaayyy back in the day 💫

The Chocolate Weetie Bickies has that OG biscuit base and then I added my little tweaks purely because I was missing one ingredient! Are you a baker who starts experimenting when you’re missing one or two ingredients? Comment below if you are ⏬

INGREDIENTS:

125g of melted butter *I tend to use salt reduced

1 cup of Brown Sugar

1 egg

1 tsp of Vanilla Essence or paste

1 cup of SR flour

1 cup of Plain flour

1/2 cup of crushed Weetbix

3 tsp of Cocoa

1 block of dark Cadbury or Nestlé baking chocolate, chopped roughly

METHOD:

  1. Preheat your fan-forced oven to 170 degrees celsius.
  2. Melt butter in the microwave or on stovetop, then mix through brown sugar.
  3. Add 1 egg and vanilla then stir through until it makes a golden paste.
  4. At the same time, add in both flours, Weetbix & cocoa. This is the stage where instead of Weetbix and cocoa, you’d usually add 1 cup of dedicated coconut 🥥 (OG Marie Claire recipe) but I didn’t have this handy so I experimented! (I don’t even sieve my flour and cocoa because I’m usually in a rush to make these but they always turn out great!)
  5. Mix all together 🥄 It’s going to look pretty dry but trust the process. It will come together to make the perfect consistency for bickies.
  6. Prepare a large baking tray with non-stick paper.
  7. Divide bickies into whatever size you like! I tend to enjoy a large, chunky and gooey bickie. I make around 12 or 16 depending on guests and/or my planned baked good delivery for friends.
  8. Bake for 20 minutes (*hint* I’ve found from years of watching Crumbs & Doilies – she’s EPIC, that biscuits actually keep baking after you’ve gotten then out of the oven and they need that time to set the outside crust to become gooey on the inside. So if you like a nice soft biscuit, get them out just a touch sooner than them going brown on top!)
  9. Allow to cool (as per previous *hint*) and serve once warmish. These are also epic with icecream … just saying 🍪🍦