These easy chocolate biscuits are the perfect Christmas treat that both kids and adults will love. Get the whole family involved with decoration

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:30 mins
  • Cook:10 mins
  • plus cooling
• Easy
• Makes 50

Ingredients

• 270g plain flour
• 50g cocoa powder
• 120g icing sugar
• 150g butter
• 2 eggs

For decoration

• melted chocolate or piping icing, sugar pearls, sprinkles

Method

• STEP 1

  Mix the flour, cocoa, icing sugar and a pinch of salt in a bowl. Rub in the butter and then mix in eggs. Knead quickly with your hands to a smooth dough. Wrap in foil, press into a flat disc and chill for 30 minutes.

• STEP 2

  Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Line a couple of baking sheets with baking parchment. Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured worksurface to about 3mm thin. Cut out shapes from the dough. Put the biscuits on the baking sheets – it’s best to put similarly sized cookies together. Bake for 7-10 minutes, depending on the size of the biscuits.

• STEP 3

  Knead the off-cuts of the dough together and chill again for 15 minutes. Roll, cut and bake as before. Cool completely.

• STEP 4

  When cooled, the cookies can be decorated with chocolate or icing and sugar pearls and sprinkles.