Chocolate fork biscuits
These melt in the mouth chocolate fork biscuits are so simple they are the best, easy chocolate biscuits to bake with little kids.
Chocolate fork biscuits are a great easy biscuit for kids to make. Based on our popular fork biscuits, but with added chocolate, it’s a simple recipe even toddlers and very young children can help with.
Fork biscuits were one of the first things I baked with my kids because they’re so easy. With only three ingredients, no eggs or cutters, they’re the perfect biscuit to bake as an introduction to baking for young kids. And this chocolate version is just as easy and great for kids.
How can kids help make the chocolate biscuits?
This chocolate biscuit recipe is so easy and only has a few ingredients so even young children and toddlers can make these themselves (with a little help). Measuring out the ingredients is a great job as well as mixing them all together. It’s made even simpler as this biscuit recipe has no egg – so no shell or messy hands!
Kids will also enjoy rolling the biscuit dough into balls to make the biscuits and then forming the shapes with a fork. It’s much easier, and quicker than having to use a rolling pin and cutters to make the biscuits.
If this is your first time in the kitchen with your children, read some of our top tips to make it a bit easier and less stressful! And if you enjoyed baking these biscuits we’ve got lots of easy biscuit recipes kids will enjoy or or easy bakes for children.
How do you store chocolate fork biscuits?
These chocolate biscuits will keep in an air tight container for 3-5 days. If you want, you can keep them for longer if you freeze them. Wrap them in clingfilm or pop them in a freezer bag and they will keep in the freezer for a few months.
Defrost them fully at room temperature before you serve them.
What can I use insted of self raising flour?
If you don’t have any self raising flour (it’s popular here in the UK, but less so in other countries), you can swap it for an equal amount of plain or all-purpose flour and add teaspoon of baking powder and a pinch of salt.
What other easy chocolate biscuits for kids can i make?
If you enjoy making these chocolate fork biscuits, why not try one of our other simple kids’ chocolate biscuits?
Bourbon biscuits
Chocolate thumbprint cookies
Custard biscuits
Chocolate chip shortbread
Smarties cookies
Chocolate dodgers
Double chocolate chip cookies
Chocolate chip cookies
Brownie cookies
Chocolate crinkle cookies
Chocolate dipped biscuits
Rolo cookies
Chocolate marshmallow cookies
Useful equipment
You might need the following baking tools/gadgets to make these chocolate biscuits:
Digital scales
Measuring cups
Mixing bowl
Wooden spoons
Hand held mixer
Baking tray
Wire rack
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Difficulty: Easy
Time: 15 minutes plus 15 minutes baking
Serves: 12 biscuits
Ingredients
100g (½ cup) butter, softened
50g (¼ cup) caster sugar
125g (1 cup) Self raising flour*
10g (1 1/2 tablespoons) cocoa powder
- If you don’t have any self raising flour, use plain or all-purpose flour and add a teaspoon of baking powder and a pinch of salt.
How to make chocolate fork biscuits
Preheat your oven to 180C / 160C Fan / 350F and line a baking tray with baking or parchment paper.
Mix the butter and sugar together
Get your toddler to measure the butter and cut it into small pieces. If it’s not soft, pop it in the microwave for 10 seconds or so to soften it and make it easier to mix. Put it in a large mixing bowl.
Weigh the caster sugar and add it to your bowl.
Beat the butter and sugar together with a wooden spoon until it is well mixed and soft. If you have one, you can use a hand held mixer to cream them together.
Add the flour and cocoa powder
Get your toddler to weigh the flour and cocoa powder and add them to your mixing bowl. Keep using your spoons to mix it in, then you can use your hands to bring it all together in a soft ball of dough. It can be quite a dry dough – add a splash of milk if you need to – and keep kneading it until it stops crumbling and comes together.
Make the chocolate biscuits
Get your kids to take small pieces of dough and roll them into balls. You want them to all be roughly the same size (about the size of a walnut) so you might need to make sure they take the right amount.
Place each ball of dough on your prepared baking trays.
Dip a fork in cold water and gently press down on each biscuit ball. My kids enjoy being in charge of this job so I tend to roll each ball so that they’re the same size and let them do the rest – it’s a great job for even the tiniest of chefs to help with.
Bake the chocolate fork biscuits
Bake the chocolate biscuits in the oven for 12-15 minutes until they are fully baked. They’ll still be a little soft when they come out the oven but will harden a little when they cool.
Remove them from your oven, allow them to cool slightly before leaving them to cool completely on a wire rack.
Serve and enjoy!
Chocolate fork biscuits
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat your oven to 180C / 160C Fan / 350F and line a baking tray with baking or parchment paper.
- Measure the butter and sugar and add them to a large mixing bowl. Beat the butter and sugar together with a wooden spoon until it's well mixed and soft.
- Weigh the flour and cocoa powder and add them to your mixing bowl. Keep using your spoons to mix it in, then you can use your hands to bring it all together in a soft ball of dough.
- Take small pieces of dough and roll them into balls. You want them to all be roughly the same size (about the size of a walnut.)
- Place the balls of dough on the prepared baking tray. Dip a fork in cold water and gently press down on each biscuit ball.
- Bake the chocolate biscuits in the oven for 12-15 minutes until they are fully baked. They'll still be a little soft when they come out the oven but will harder a little when they cool.
- Remove them from your oven, allow them to cool slightly before leaving them to cool completely on a wire rack.
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This recipe was first published in June 2019, and republished with new images in January 2023.
The dough for the biscuits is so good even uncooked theyre easy to make and my new favourite recipe!!💗
I’m so glad you liked them. Getting to lick the bowl or eat the unbaked cookie dough is the best part of baking!
I adore chocolate biscuits and have made many variations on it including chocolate sandwiches and chocolate-chip but never the actual thing. Evelyn, my little sister, found this recipe but it didn’t work. The biscuits were as dry as a piece of sun-dried tomato, in the words of Ev, and when I tried making them myself they were still way too dry. Why?
The mixture can be dry if your butter is too cold or you haven’t kneaded the mixture enough. I find it needs the heat from your hands to soften the butter enough for it to come together or you could try adding an egg yolk or splash of milk to help it along.
The mixture will be dry if not mixed with hands until moist.
Lovely receipt. Yummy.
Thanks, i’m so glad you like it! Hx
Is there a wet ingredient missing? This made a very dry mixture that was very difficult to bring together. Impossible for my toddler to roll into balls as it crumbled apart instantly in his hands. Made a huge mess too. I had to do it for him in the end. The biscuits tasted alright but very dry.
No, no ingredients are missing. The butter needs to be very soft otherwise it won’t bind together well. But otherwise, you just need to knead it until it doesn’t crumble.
I found the same. The mixture looked like pastry before the water is added. I added an egg and it came together perfectly and was delicious.
I haven’t tried making yet but i will soon. Can these be made with oil because we don’t have enough butter. by the way i am 11.
I’ve never tried these with oil so i’m not sure how these would turn out. Have you got any margarine, as that might be a better substitute for the butter?
These are fantastic. I microwave the butter until a bit sloppy before blending with castor sugar. This ensures a wet mix to form a better ball shape that doesn’t crumble. It also makes wooden spoon mixing much easier. Thanks for the recipe, very yummy!
I’m so glad you liked them. Yes, if the butter is too hard it can be hard to get the mixture to come together so that’s a good tip for getting round that.
Made these biscuits today went down a treat with all the family and friends , will add some Nutella next time thank you.
I’m so glad you liked them! Nutella sounds like a fabulous addition – let us know how they go. Helenx
Love these ,quick and easy to make .I always add egg yolk to enrich and stick a chocolate button on the top .Be warned very moorish!
Thanks for getting in touch, i’m so glad you like them!
Easy to make, the children loved it, we used easter cutters with details on and it worked amazing. They also tasted great!
Brilliant, i’m so glad you liked them!
Thank you so much for this. This is really similar to the biscuits I used to make with my gran and I want to surprise her with some for Mother’s Day as I haven’t seen her in ages.
That’s lovely, i’m so glad you found them. And I hope you get to see you Granny soon. Helenx
Sadly it made dry crumbly biscuits despite extra kneading of dough. I would not recommend
If extra kneading isn’t helping you can try adding a splash of milk or even an egg yolk. They can help bind things together if you need it.
Good cookies! They were a bit crumbly but tasted great.
I’m glad you liked them. Sometimes you can stop them crumbling if you work the dough a bit more. As long as they taste good that’s the main thing though!
My 5 year old daughter and I make these a lot. We add a spoonful of Nutella and decorate with smarties before putting them in the oven.
Yum, smarties and Nutella sound like great additions!
Just wondering if this can be made using unsalted butter?
Yes of course. If you want you can add a pinch of salt instead if you’re using unsalted butter, but that’s up to you.
Really easy and tasty too! We have made these and the plain ones and both have been yummy. Have some plain ones with added ginger in the oven at the moment. Love that they are so simple, even if it means we make them far too often!
I’m so glad you liked them (and the plain ones). A little added ginger is a great idea, i might have to try that next!
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It is a very simple and wonderful recipe. Thank you so much. I would like to know if there are any alternatives for butter?
Thanks, i’m glad you liked it, and found it simple. If you don’t have butter, they’d work with margarine.
Hi, I’m from across the pond and wondered what that Fahrenheit oven temp should be? I’m thinking 350 but thought I should check. 35 is a bit low!!
Thanks, yes! 35F isn’t going to cook much, it should be 350!
Just tried this recipe with ginger and pieces of stem ginger and also made another batch with cinnamon added to them they look delicious ? I’m so glad I came across this recipe I’m literally addicted to thinking what else can I do with it
I love your ideas. I’m definitely going to have to try a few!
I also tried this recipe with some peanut butter with it I had to tweak it slightly to make it more easier to roll into balls as I added less butter as peanut butter already has it in but omg ? seriously yummy ? that crunchy texture with the crunchy kind the nuts ? wow ? game changer
I added not only cocoa powder but a couple spoonfuls of Nutella and their delicious ?
I like your style – i need to try adding nutella next time we make them!
Lovely recipe and I added a couple extras. I now have a crunchy and luxurious biscuit ?
Thanks. What did you add? I love finding different ways of tweaking recipes!
Great recipe, I’ve featured it in this week’s #CookBlogShare!
Thank you!
Great recipe, I love the idea of the ginger ones mentioned, I’ve replaced the cocoa with custard powder for custard ones or replaced it with cornflour for coffee or cinnamon ones, or lemon extract . Such a useful little recipe.
I’m glad you like them. They’re so simple, but that makes them great for experimenting. I think i’ll have to try your custard powder idea!
We make these! And I agree – they are such a good one to get kids involved with – very easy and fun. Eb x
Yes, they’re great when you want a quick and easy bake to do with kids (particularly if they want chocolate in them!)
Perfect recipe if you need a little chocolate fix and you need it fast (which is always in our house lol)! I’m going to print the recipe off and show it to my 8 year old who’s been trying to take over my kitchen from me lately. He will love making them! Thanks for sharing with #BakingCrumbs 🙂
Quick and chocolate are two important boxes checked in our kitchen!
Loving these! Perfect to make with the kids and as I have said before I just LOVE the cute dumpiness of them. I am definitely going to make these with mine. Thank you so much for bringing them to #BakingCrumbs
Thanks! My kids love regular fork biscuits so these are a really tasty twist on those.
What a nice simple chocolate cookie recipe – cant have to manny of those. Thank you for linking to #CookBlogShare
Thanks. We love a simple biscuit recipe – wuick is perfect for short attention spans!
these are great, super tasty and super easy to make. My kind of biscuit! Thank you for sharing with #Bakeoftheweek x
Thanks! They’re perfect for kids – so simple but still tasty.
Nothing beats a simple chocolate biscuit does it? My kids love making things like this! #CookBlogShare
We love the plain version, but when you’ve got a chocolate lover for a child you’ve got to make them chocolatey once in a while!
WOW! Best biscuits ever i love them my kids made them with me and they enjoyed it( as specialy eating them )
I’m so glad you liked them. They’re one of our favourites too!
Really good! Just wish they melted in my mouth a bit more. I had to put in an egg because the mix wasn’t wet enough.
Best BiscuitI have ever made and the easiest , yum yum Thankyou for your recipe got to go I’ve got to have another biscuit
I’m glad you liked them!