Rose are red, violets are blue, I fancy a cookies, how about you? Yes that’s right, now there’s no better way to celebrate valentines day than with biscuits. Chocolates and flowers are normally a common gift to give on Valentine’s day. Now you can go one easy step further and make your loved one or ones these delicious biscuits with chocolate and rose in.
Chocolate has a dark secret too. It contains a couple of chemicals called phenylethylamine and serotonin, which are thought to be mood boosters and mild sexual stimulants. Eating chocolate can make you feel good, maybe even euphoric. The aphrodisiac qualities of chocolate are more about the sensual pleasure of how it melts in your mouth. In a biscuit with rose and lemon it tastes as good as, if not better than just plain chocolate. Go on, you know you what too.
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Equipment
- Nutribullet
- Baking tray
- Fish slice
- Mixing bowl
- Stirring spoon
- Teaspoon
- Tablespoon
- Cup
- Fork
- Biscuit/cookie cutter
- Scales
Ingredients
- Buckwheat flour x 200g
- Ground almonds x 100g
- Brown rice flour x 100g plus extra for dusting
- Raw cacao powder x 50g
- Ground sweet cinnamon or ground cinnamon x 1 tsp
- Baking powder x 2 tsp
- Rose petals x 4 tbsp
- Butter or ghee x 200g plus extra for grease
- Coconut sugar x 150g
- Lemon x 1 juice and zest
- Egg x 1
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Lightly grease a baking tray.
- Weigh and measure all the ingredients.
- Put the rose petals and buckwheat flour, ground almond, brown rice flour, raw cacao powder, sugar, ground sweet cinnamon or cinnamon and baking powder into the large mixing bowl.
- Stir all these ingredients together with the spoon.
- Next add the butter or ghee and rub it into the mixture with your fingers until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Break the egg into the cup and beat it with the fork.
- Add the juice and zest of the lemon and mix again.
- Now add the egg mixture to the breadcrumbs and stir with the spoon.
- As the mixture begins to stick together, start to mix it with clean hands.
- It might be slightly crumbly at first but keep kneading until it forms a stiff dough.
- Sprinkle the extra flour onto a clean work surface and keeping kneading until it is completely mixed.
- Use extra flour if the dough starts to stick.
- Again sprinkle flour on the work surface and roll the dough very thinly.
- Once rolled, cut the dough with the circle cutter.
- Repeat the process until all the dough is cut into biscuit/cookie shapes.
- Place all the biscuits/cookies onto the greased baking tray.
- Place in the oven for 10 – 15 minutes.
- When they are golden brown, remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.
- Serve and enjoy.
Chocolate, Rose and Lemon Lovers Buckwheat Biscuits/Cookies were a huge hit with my little lovers. They loved these biscuits/cookies and I really enjoyed baking this sweet treats. They were easy to prepare and cook. Plus they are packed with goodness. For this recipe I used a heart shaped cookie cutter that I brought from my local supermarket. It made a nice change from my usual round cookie cutter. These cookies can be given as a gift but they are also yummy with a cup of tea just for you. However you decide to eat this dish, as always, please enjoy. Thank you xxx
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