Chocolate Hazelnut Cream Biscuits

...and back after a rather long period of time to my favourite - chocolate!

Apart form being a big fan of chocolate, I am a big biscuit lover. My normal breakfast is a couple of biscuits with a glass of milk, and I love trying out all varieties of biscuits. And what I love even more than normal biscuits are cream filled ones - but am sometimes put off by the amount of butter and cream used (as in the original idea for this recipe which I got from a magazine - dont remember which one). So, here is a recipe with no butter, and very little cream. 

These were made for a group of children - and were a big hit with them. 

Ingredients

115 grams - all purpose flour

2 tbsp - cocoa powder sweetened

5 tbsp - sunflower oil

3 tbsp - sugar

4 tbsp - low fat milk

For the filling 

120 gram - plain chocolate, roughly chopped

2 tsp - cream

4 tbsp - hazelnuts, finely crushed

a few tsp of cocoa powder (sweetened), to sprinkle on the cookies (optional)

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 150 degree C and line a baking tray.
2. Mix together the flour and cocoa powder in a bowl.
3. In another bowl, mix together the oil, milk and sugar.
4. Add the liquid mixture to the flour mixture and mix to form a dough.
5. Roll out the dough and cut into rounds with the help of a cookie cutter and place on the baking tray.
6. Place the tray in the centre of the preheated oven and bake until done (sorry, I didn't note down the exact baking time)
7. Let the cookies cool on the baking tray for a couple of minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
8. Meanwhile, place the chocolate and cream on a double boiler and mix until the chocolate melts completely.
9. Add finely crushed hazelnuts and mix well.
10. Scoop up approx 1 tbsp of chcolate mixture and roll them into balls and flatten them gently and sandwich the biscuits with the chocolate cream. (this step has to be done a little quickly so that its easy to make the sandwich, without breaking the biscuits)
11. Sprinkle the cocoa powder and serve.

Enjoy!