Chocolate dipped cookies
These simple chocolate dipped cookies are a great, fun bake for children.
These simple chocolate dipped cookies are a great bake for kids. They take a really easy biscuit recipe and make it a bit special by dipping it in chocolate, and if your kids are like mine adding a whole load of sprinkles!
How can kids help to make chocolate coated biscuits?
This is based on my favourite easy biscuit recipe to use for anything like this as it’s so straight forward and therefore great for kids to make. It also holds its shape well making it perfect for any neat cookie cutter recipe.
Kids can help measure and mix the ingredients to make the biscuit dough, or if you like you can get ahead and do this step and just get your kids to make and decorate the biscuits.
My kids always enjoy rolling and cutting out cookies. If your kids enjoy playing with play dough they’ll probably be quite good at this! We just used round cutters, but if you wanted you could make any shape you wanted.
Finally, once you’ve melted the chocolate your kids can help decorate the biscuits, or if the chocolate is too messy, get them to go wild with the sprinkles to give the biscuits a finishing touch.
How do you store chocolate dipped biscuits
These chocolate dipped biscuits can be stored in an airtight container for a few days. If you want, you can freeze them by wrapping them in cling film and popping them in a freezer bag. Take them out of the freezer and allow them to defrost fully before you eat them.
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Useful equipment
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Digital scales
Freestanding mixer
Mixing bowl
Hand held mixer
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Rolling pin
Cutters
Palette knife
Baking tray
Wire rack
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Difficulty: Easy
Time: 30 minutes + 10 minues baking + 5 minutes decorating
Serves: 12 cookies
Ingredients
175g (¾ cups) butter, softened
175g (1.5 cups) plain flour
50g (½ cup) icing sugar
50g (½ cup) cornflour
To decorate
250g milk chocolate
spinkles
How to make chocolate dipped cookies
Preheat your oven to 180C / 170C Fan / 350F and line two baking trays with baking paper.
Mix the biscuit ingredients together
Get your kids to measure out the butter, flour, icing sugar and cornflour. Add them to a free standing mixer or large mixing bowl. Using wooden spoons, your hands or the k paddle of your mixer if you’re using one, mix everything together until it all comes together and forms a nice soft ball of dough. Start slowly as the icing sugar and corn flour can get a bit messy! You might need to finish it at the end with your hands, just to make sure it comes together.
Make the cookies/ biscuits
Lightly flour your work surface and roll out your dough until it is about ¼ inches or ½ cm thick. If the dough sticks to the rolling pin either sprinkle a little flour on it or put a sheet or baking paper on top.
Using a round cutter (about 7 or 8 cm wide) get your kids to cut out biscuits and pop them on a baking tray. Using a small palette knife is a good way of getting them off your work surface without damaging them. Once you’ve cut out as many biscuits as you can, re-roll the dough and do some more. I find if i’m baking with both my kids, this is a good chance to swap jobs to try and stop any fighting about who gets to do what!
Bake the biscuits
Pop the cookies in the oven for 10 minutes. They’re ready when they are just starting to turn golden brown. Remove them from the oven and leave them to cool on a wire rack.
Decorate the chocolate dipped cookies
Break the chocolate into pieces and put them in a microwavable bowl. Melt them in short bursts in a microwave. If you don’t have a microwave, put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and put it over a pan of simmering water (a double boiler), stirring it until it melts.
While the chocolate is melting, choose your sprinkles and pour them into small bowls.
Dip the biscuits in the chocolate
This works best if the melted chocolate is in a small bowl as you can get more of the biscuit dipped.
Get your kids to dip each biscuit in turn, into the chocolate. As soon as you’ve done that, sprinkle the sprinkles over the top of the chocolate. Leave it to set on a wire rack or baking tray.
Chocolate dipped cookies
Ingredients
- 175 g (¾ cup) butter softened
- 175 g (1.5 cup) plain flour
- 50 g (½ cup) icing sugar
- 50 g (½ cup) cornflour
To decorate
- 250 g milk chocolate
- spinkles
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180C / 170C Fan / 350F and line two baking trays with baking paper.
Mix the biscuit ingredients together
- Measure out the butter, flour, icing sugar and cornflour. Add them to a free standing mixer or large mixing bowl. Using wooden spoons, your hands or the k paddle of your mixer if you're using one, mix everything together until it all comes together and forms a nice soft ball of dough.
Make the cookies/ biscuits
- Lightly flour your work surface and roll out your dough until it is about ¼ inches or ½ cm thick. If the dough sticks to the rolling pin either sprinkle a little flour on it or put a sheet or baking paper on top.
- Using a round cutter (about 7 or 8 cm wide) cut out biscuits and pop them on a baking tray.
Bake the biscuits
- Pop the cookies in the oven for 10 minutes. They're ready when they are just starting to turn golden brown. Remove them from the oven and leave them to cool on a wire rack.
Decorate the chocolate dipped cookies
- Break the chocolate into pieces and put them in a microwavable bowl. Melt them in short bursts in a microwave. If you don't have a microwave, put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and put it over a pan of simmering water (a double boiler), stirring it until it melts.
- While the chocolate is melting, choose your sprinkles and pour them into small bowls.
Dip the biscuits in the chocolate
- This works best if the melted chocolate is in a small bowl which makes the chocolate deeper as you can get more of the biscuit dipped.
- Dip each biscuit in turn, into the chocolate. As soon as you've done that, sprinkle the sprinkles over the top of the chocolate. Leave it to set on a wire rack or baking tray.
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