5 Dec 2016

Mint Chocolate Biscuits + A Joseph Joseph Christmas Giveaway

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Mint Chocolate Biscuits | Patisserie Makes Perfect

There’s only a few weeks to go until Christmas! I’ve been busy making edible gifts, coming up with ideas to make use of my homemade mincemeat and the tree needed putting up yesterday! There just isn’t enough time to get everything done.

I made these mint chocolate biscuits a few weeks ago and they taste so good, I might have to make another batch. I love mint and chocolate, it’s such a great pairing and these biscuits are quite bitter from all of the cocoa and not very sweet, so they work perfectly with the sweet mint fondant filling.

Mint Chocolate Biscuits | Patisserie Makes Perfect

I’m sure all of you are as ridiculously busy as I am at the moment, pressures to spend more time with friends and family. workplace social commitments, gifts to buy, wrap and not to mention all the shopping and food preparation for Christmas Day.

I’ve teamed up with Joseph Joseph to offer you a bundle of Christmas gadgets that will help make your food preparation that bit easier, this bundle includes a clip timer, so you can socialise with family while the dinner cooks and you don’t have to be chained to the kitchen to hear the timer.  There is a thermobaste to keep your bird moist and a complete carving set to help you carve the bird.

Finally a set of tongs to help you dish up all of the sides and those delicious pigs in blankets! If you scroll to the bottom of this post, all of the details of how to enter are included.

Joseph Joseph Giveaway | Patisserie Makes Perfect

If you’d like to make these biscuits, here is the recipe below they’re great for feeding a crowd and they taste really delicious. The biscuit is a bit like a rich oreo and they taste perfect with a coffee whilst wrapping presents and watching TV.

Mint Chocolate Biscuits | Patisserie Makes Perfect

Mint Chocolate Cookies | Patisserie Makes Perfect

Mint Chocolate Biscuits

Patisserie Makes Perfect
A delicious mint chocolate biscuit, perfect to share with friends, or gift as a Christmas gift.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 16

Ingredients
  

  • ***Chocolate Biscuits***
  • 260 g Plain Flour
  • 85 g Cocoa Powder
  • 5 g Salt
  • 1/4 Tsp Baking Soda
  • 225 g Unsalted Butter softened
  • 160 g Granulated Sugar
  • ***Mint Filling***
  • 225 g Icing Sugar
  • 50-75 ml Double Cream
  • 8-10 drops Peppermint Extract/Oil

Instructions
 

  • Put the flour, cocoa powder and baking soda in a bowl together, stir to combine.
  • Put the butter in the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment fitted, mix until smooth. Add the salt and the sugar and mix until light and fluffy.
  • Add the cocoa mixture in two batches and beat until it begins to come together into a dough.
  • Tip the dough onto a work surface and knead it into a ball until it comes together.
  • Wrap this into a block and cover in clingfilm, leaving it to set in the fridge for at least 1 hour until firm.
  • Preheat the oven to 140C Fan/160C, and line two baking trays with parchment. Take the dough from the fridge and roll it out between two sheets of greaseproof paper until it is about 1/2cm in thickness. Using a 6cm cutter, stamp out rounds of dough and place them on the prepared baking tray evenly spaced apart, they wont spread too much.
  • You may need to gather up the dough and form it back into a ball and roll it out again to make 32 rounds. If the dough has got too warm, you can roll it out and place it back in the fridge to firm up before cutting it out.
  • Bake for 15-17 mins until small cracks appear on the surface, leave the biscuits to cool on the tray for 10 mins (they will be quite soft), before moving to a rack to cool completely.
  • To make the filling, sift the icing sugar into a bowl and add 50ml of the double cream, beat the mixture until it forms a thick paste that won't leak out of the cookies. Add more cream if necessary, add the peppermint extract to taste.
  • Take the cookies and pair them up, sandwiching them together with the filling, place in the fridge to firm up, they can be stored in the fridge for about a week.

 

Joseph Joseph Christmas Giveaway

Thanks for reading.

Angela

273 Responses

  1. Jodie Dodd
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    What a fantastic giveaway gift! I really need a new set of tongs. Had a new pair that seems to have walked away and the ones I do have won’t stay locked. Your biscuits look lovely, sadly I’m not a fan of mint but I just love the picture of them in the tea box! 🙂 x

  2. Hannah McAnulty
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    Well as I’m vegetarian I’ll just be having plenty of veggies lol. But before, I would have had turkey as it’s traditional, but with some ham & sometimes beef.

  4. Paula cheadle
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    we always have 2 meats, this year it is Turkey and Lamb

  5. Lisa Mauchline
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    We will be having turkey with all the trimmings

  8. Hannah
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    Always turkey – but sometimes we also like a gammon too.

  10. Steven S
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    Turkey for us for dinner. Beef, Lamb & Pork for cold cuts on Boxing day.

  19. Alison Clark
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    We are having Goose this year – its a first we always have cockerel but have all decided to try goose this year – finger crossed its as good as the cockerel always is.

  21. c
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    beef because i don’t like turkey was thinking about goose but wouldn’t know if it was an english or canadian goose and don’t want 1 thats flown thousands of miles

  30. Jayne Kelsall
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    I always cook a Turkey but also do a leg of lamb as a couple of family members can’t eat turkey .x

  36. Patricia Avery
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    Turkey. We did try beef for a change last year but as much as we love beef it just didn’t seem like Christmas dinner 🙂

  42. Sarah H
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    Love a traditional turkey with all the trimmings ♥

  50. Sam Parkes
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    Turkey in our house every year and New Year’s Day a three bird roast

  53. Sarah Wilson
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    Definitely turkey, and then leftover beef and lamb on the night at the in-laws!

  55. Tammy Neal
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    Turkey 🍗 gammon, duck we have a mixture of meat x

  58. karen laing
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    We’ll be having the traditional turkey with all the trimmings,this year I’ll be cooking for eighteen,the most I’ve ever cooked for but it will be fine……I hope !

  61. Paula Smith
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    We have Turkey, Pork and Gammon. With all the trimmings and leftovers for days!! Perfect

  65. Charlie Brunton
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    We are having Turkey! I’m hosting Christmas dinner this year so fingers crossed it goes well!

  67. angela edmonds
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    Traditional Xmas lunch for us – bring on the turkey xx

  72. Carly Belsey
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    We will be having turkey this year, im looking forward to cooking it as it’s my first time hosting

  73. Dawn Andrews
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    A roast, but I’ll be having quinoa and sweetcorn bites in place of turkey.

  83. Julie Camm
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    Turkey and pork here, with a ham slow cooked in coca cola for an evening buffet..

  87. Christina Hedges
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    I’m thinking of getting I’m Beef Wellington, a turkey mini crown and some lamb shanks in the slow cooker 🙂

  93. Lisa Wilkinson
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    I’ll do a small Turkey crown as there’s only 5 of us

  96. LAURA WHEATLEY
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    always have turkey, and cranberry sauce, yum

  97. Jenny Rogers
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    Pork and Chicken – my mum isn’t keen on turkey.

  101. Karen R
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    We always have turkey and all the trimmings – and hubby always cooks it!

  107. Lee Thomas
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    I’ll be having filo pastry, the vegetarian option at the hotel where we are having Christmas Day dinner

  108. BARBARA MADDEN
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    We love are Turkey and are having a Crown and also a small piece of Beef

  113. Womble
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    We’re having rib of beef. None of us are really keen on turkey.

  118. Alica
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    No Christmas dinner here this year as my daughter is working Christmas day and boxing day, so we are having a buffet at the evening with lots of goodies!

  121. kelly mobbs
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    Turkey for me but it will be in gran canaria this year 😛

  122. Heather Morrison
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    I’ll be having a lovely Quorn Roast this year but Turkey for my man and my little boy xx

  131. Maxine G
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    Something else, but we’re not sure yet! We like to do something different each year

  133. Nikki Hayes
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    Turkey – probably – its hard to get a small enough one for two people so I’ll admit to occasionally buying a chicken instead 😀

  139. Tamsyn Elizabeth
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    I will be having pheasant this year as it’s only myself and my partner we prefer to have as little leftovers as possible

    Tamsyn Elizabeth

  145. barbara daniels
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    christmas is coming the GOOSE is getting fat, please put a penny in the old mans hat

  148. Katie b
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    This year we’re having turkey, last year was beef!

  150. Lydia Graham
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    We’ve bought chicken, duck and beef. We normally have 2 different meats on the day and just need to choose now.

  162. Deborah Clarke
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    Ill be having a nut roast dinner with plenty of crispy roasties honey roasted veg and Yorkshire puds and cranberry and chestnut stuffing. The rest of the family will have turkey .

  163. Louise A
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    I now have 2 veggies in the house so for 2 of us turkey seems a bit OTT so for the last couple of years we have had roast chicken instead, which we prefer, if truth be told

  167. dawn foster
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    we have curry, the children love it as its a fave meal anyway but it frees up all our time to spend the day with them playing with their new toys!

  169. Jules Naybur
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    I do Turkey for the family and duck for me as I can’t eat turkey, thanks to my IBS

  170. Andrew Curtis
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    We’ll be having a 3-bird roast, or a Turdoose as we call it!

  171. Jennifer Bruce
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    We eat Turkey wth homemade (by me,) cranberry sauce!

  178. Adeinne Tonner
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    On christmas day we will be having turkey and chicken

  182. Kate Bissell
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    Porky feast – roast ham with lots of crunchy crackling, pigs in blankets, pork and chestnut stuffing. Can’t wait.

  186. Ellen Sheppard
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    We are having, turkey, gammon and all the trimmings 🙂

  191. Joanne Blunt
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    Turkey and beef (plus a small quorn roast for my veggie son).

  192. Jo Carroll
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    We’ll be having turkey. It’s been so deeply programmed in our D.N.A. it’s very hard not to – you’d feel like it wasn’t Christmas without it 😉

  194. Becky Duffy
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    We’ll be having turkey, which I’m looking forward to very much already 🙂

  198. Anita hargreaves
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    My mum and I are spending Christmas together as Boxing Day with the family and as we generally eat well all year we are having a nice steak x

  201. alison fisher
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    chicken for us no one will eat turkey but me!

  208. Corinne Henson
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    My hubby and rest of the family will have a turkey but I will have a nut roast

  209. Tammy Westrup
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    Its turkey every year for us! Sometimes with a little pork on the side!

  211. John Tingay
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    Turkey this year. We have tried various others through the years such as goose, three bird roasts and although they are OK we always decide to go back to Turkey.

  233. Lucy Major
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    We will be having turkey 🙂 it’s traditional!

  236. Amanda Jaggard
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    Roast turkey here but with gammon too apparently

  240. Jayne Townson
    | Reply

    Chicken for us. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.

  248. BERNIE
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    Never had a turkey ever in my life for Xmas, always pork and beef.

  260. Lorraine Stone
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    Having turkey this year for Christmas dinner

  263. Sarah Lee
    | Reply

    We’ll be sticking with the traditional Turkey this year

  265. laura banks
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    we are having turkey its already ordered from the butchers

  266. Lynne Durkin
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    We always have a turkey breast joint for Christmas x

  269. Tracey Peach
    | Reply

    We will have both a farm reared Turkey & Chicken 🙂 x

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