Quick & Easy

Chocolate wheaties

Why buy when you can bake?
CHOCOLATE  Wheaties
18 Item
45M
25M
1H 10M

Forget store-bought, these delicate wheat-germ biscuits dipped in chocolate are easy to make at home.

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Ingredients

Method

1.Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Line 2 oven trays with baking paper.
2.Beat butter and sugar in a small bowl with an electric mixer for about 1 minute or until smooth. Beat in egg until combined. Stir in coconut, wheat germ and flours.
3.Roll dough between sheets of baking paper until about 5mm thick. Place on tray; refrigerate for 30 minutes.
4.Cut 7.5cm rounds from dough to make about 18 biscuits; place about 2.5cm apart on trays.
5.Bake biscuits for about 20 minutes. Cool on trays.
6.Meanwhile, stir in chocolate in a small heatproof bowl over a small saucepan of simmering water until melted. Cool.
7.Spread bases of wheaties with chocolate; mark with a fork. Stand at room temperature until set. Serve.

If the weather is cool, store these biscuits in an airtight container at room temperature ­ if it’s hot, keep container in the fridge.

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