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We recently made Fork Biscuits and couldn’t wait to try other flavours. Our latest creation is these chocolate fork biscuits – and now we can’t decide which are better!

With just four ingredients, these biscuits can often be made with what you have in the fridge and the larder. They take just twenty minutes and are something the kids love to have after school or on a weekend afternoon. They’re a great alternative to making chocolate chip cookies too.

How to make fork biscuits

To make simple fork biscuits you just need butter, sugar and self raising flour although you can add a little vanilla for extra flavour if you want to. To make this chocolate version we just replace a little of the flour with cocoa powder, giving a delicious chocolate finish.

You can also use plain flour if you like for these easy chocolate biscuits recipes with just a little baking powder or baking soda added to give the cookies a nice rise.

Can you vary this recipe?

You can add other flavours to these easy fork biscuits – orange flavouring for chocolate orange fork biscuits, mint flavouring for mint chocolate fork biscuits… the options are limitless! You could also sandwich the biscuits with some chocolate spread in the middle to make a really lovely treat.

These biscuits keep well in an airtight container for a few days although they never last that long in our house. If you’re looking for other easy biscuit recipes to try, here’s our chocolate dipped coconut biscuits, jam sandwich biscuits and easy chocolate biscuits recipes. You can see all our recipes to date here.

What equipment do you need for this easy homemade cookie recipe?

You can make this homemade biscuits recipe simply with things you already have in your kitchen but here are the things we use in case there’s something you don’t already have:

As you can see, it’s all things you probably have already – that is what makes this english chocolate biscuits recipe so simple and convenient to make.

Here’s our super easy recipe for Chocolate Fork Cookies:

Makes: 16 biscuits

Ingredients

150g unsalted butter at room temperature
75g caster sugar
15g cocoa pwder
210g self raising flour

Recipe

Preheat oven 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4
Lightly butter or line two baking trays.
Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well with a wooden spoon to bring the mixture together to form a cookie dough.
Portion the mixture out using a spoon or scoop, roll into balls and place on the prepared baking trays about 2 inches apart. We use a teaspoon to measure the mix out – a little goes a long way! You should end up with little walnut sizes dough balls.
Press each dough ball down gently with a fork.
Bake for 15-20 minutes in the preheated oven until the cookies have spread and are golden brown on top.
Leave to cool slightly before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

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