Chocolate Oatmeal Biscuits

When I opened this month's Delicious magazine I knew straight away that I must try these.

I wasn't disappointed. These are seriously good biscuits. Crunchy on the outside, slightly chewy in the middle and very chocolatey. They are divine when eaten still warm from the oven and the chocolate is still melted.

They are really simple to make. A standard biscuit recipe. The Delicious recipe also adds hazelnuts. I'm not a fan of nuts in sweet foods (other than chocolate coated almonds and hazelnut praline and okay fruit and nut chocolate, but other than that.....) so I left them out.

Chocolate Oatmeal Biscuits
(from Delicious Magazine January 2007)

Beat 125 gm of unsalted butter, 1/2 cup caster sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 tspn of vanilla extract until pale and thick. Beat in 1 egg. Fold in 11/4 cup oats and 1 cup plain flour, 1/2 tspn of baking powder, 1/2 tspn of bicarbonate of soda and 1/2 tspn of salt sifted together. Fold in 175 gm of chopped chocolate. Place 1 tbspn balls of dough about 4cm apart on a lined baking tray. Flatten slightly. Bake for about ten minutes or until golden in a 170C oven.