Double Chocolate Freckle Cookies (Biscuits)

Ingredients

• 125 g butter, softened
• 165 g brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 225 g plain flour
• 35 g self raising flour
• 35 g cocoa
• 200 g eating dark chocolate
• 85 g rainbow nonpareils (hundreds & thousands in Australia)

Directions

1. 1

   Place butter, sugar and egg in a small bowl and beat with electric mixer until combined. Sift together both flours and the coco. Stir sifted ingredients into mix, in 2 batches.

2. 2

   Knead dough on floured surface until smooth. Roll dough between 2 sheets of baking paper until 3-5mm thick. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

3. 3

   Preheat oven to 180 deg C, 356 deg F. Grease & line trays with baking paper.

4. 4

   Cut 14 rounds using each of the 3 sized cutters (42 total). Place the 3cm cookies all on 1 tray. Place the remaining cookies on other trays.

5. 5

   Bake small cookies for about 10 minutes and larger cookies for about 12 minutes. Cool on wire racks.

6. 6

   When cool, melt chocolate by your preferred method. Spread tops of each cookie with chocolate and sprinkle with the candy. Place aside to set.