Jaffa Biscuits

[cookie1]

Jaffa Biscuits
Ingredients
200g butter
90g dark choc chips or orange intense lindt broken up
75g icing sugar
2 teaspoons orange zest
225g plain flour
small teaspoon baking powder
75g custard powder for those who don't use it you could probably use cornflour
Method
Make the icing sugar in the TMX and set aside.
Melt the butter on 60⁰.
Add chocolate and icing sugar and mix on speed 3 for about 3/4 seconds. The chocolate doesn't need to all melt.
Add zest, flour, baking powder and custard powder and mix using until it all comes together.
The mixture may be quite soft.
You can remove it from the machine and allow it to cool a little or go ahead straight away. (this is what I did)
Put walnut size pieces onto tray lined with baking paper. Press top down with a fork.
If the mixture is cool enough you may like to roll them to make smooth balls.
Bake at 180⁰ about 10-12 minutes depending on your oven.
Cool on trays for 5 minutes before removing to a cooling rack.
Tweaks
If you use the Lindt chocolate the orange flavour will be stronger.
I made about 32 from this recipe.
Photo
Sorry couldn't resist including the flowers DD received for her birthday.




members' comments

Chookie - I made these and they were easy and very nice.   DH kept pinching them when he thought I wasn't looking.   So I knew they were OK.   I added only one teaspoon of the orange rind as I used the orange flavored Lindt.   The ones that survived the 'raid', I stuck together with chocolate icing.   Thanks again for this recipe.

KarenH -  They are gorgeous!  Thanks for posting. I used the full amount of the orange rind as well as the orange intense chocolate.  They were great - the orange wasn't too strong at all.

[faffa_70]

Yum Cookie. I was looking for a new recipe - can't be bothered converting today - the holidays and kids are catching up with me!!!

[maddy]

YUM cookie!
Isn't Lindt orange intense the best! 
Will grab some on my next shop 

[JulieO]

These sound wonderful Cookie.  Love the flowers too.  Happy Birthday to your daughter. 

[achookwoman]

Cookie,  thanks for this recipe,  and the flowers!.. I was Looking for a biscuit recipe and this popped up.  Thanks again.   I buy Lindt when it is on special and always use it in cooking.

[judydawn]

Flowers made great props cookie, don't apologise, we all love them.  Lucky you, DD gets flowers and you get to have the pleasure of them too.  My GD said she never gets flowers like her Mum does, so one birthday I took her a bunch of flowers and you should have seen the look on her face. I have to take the credit for her liking flowers so much I always made a big deal of them in other people's gardens when we went walking to the playground. There were bottlebrush trees in their street which, at 2.5 years old, she would call brushbottle trees.  The cookies look great too

[cookie1]

Thank you all. I'll pass on your messages to DD. She had expressed the fact a while ago that she never gets flowers so she was given these for her birthday. DH can't see the sense in flowers-he says they're gone in a week or so. I've received 2 bunches from him in 42 years. One lot of DD's birth and another the other day. A friend had bought buckets of flowers to car club and all the fellas took some home to their wives. They all said they would be asked "What have you done?" That was exactly what I said.   I'm not complaining though, that's just him.

[CreamPuff63]

thanks cookie  I don't know what it is about biccies that have the fork mark - but I always seem to LOVE them

[cookie1]

Maybe they remind us of our childhood. Mum always did it.

[achookwoman]

I made these yesterday Cookie,   And the were easy and very nice.   DH kept pinch g them when he thought I wasn't looking.   So I knew they were OK.   I added only one teaspoon of the orange rind as I used the orange flavored Lindt.   The ones thAt survived the 'raid', I stuck together with choco. Icing.   Thanks again for this recipe.
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[JulieO]

Chookie, thanks for answering the question I was coming on here to ask.  Was wondering if I should reduce the zest if I was using the Lindt orange chocolate, so as not to overpower the orange.  Will only use 1 tsp too. 

[trudy]

Thanks Cookie1,  These sound like a huge hit!!!

[KarenH]

I bought a block of Lindt orange intense chocolate, intending to make these biscuits - but instead DH and I ate the chocolate while watching TV  so I had to go out and buy another block to make  .  They are gorgeous!  Thanks for posting 

[KarenH]

BTW - I used the full amount of the orange rind, as well as the orange intense chocolate.  They were great - the orange wasnt too strong at all.

[maddy]

GRRRRR......I keep meaning to make these biscuits, but it's either me that eats too much of the lindt chocolate.......or the kids eat the oranges!
I will have the complete ingredients one day!