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Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate! What more could you want? Whip up these gooey, delicious treats just in time for Easter with baker Jessica Marsden’s newest cookbook Chocolate Overload! With bakes for every season and celebration, this will get your tastebuds tingling.
•Chocolate Overload! by Jessica Marsden, £12.99, Amazon
While we try to ensure all recipes work, we cannot take responsibility for their success. EXTRACTED FROM CHOCOLATE OVERLOAD! BY JESSIE MARSDEN-URQUHART (POP PRESS, £12.99)
Bunny Hug Biscuits
Makes: 15
YOU WILL NEED:
100g unsalted butter, room temperature
50g caster sugar
200g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
Zest of 1 lemon
15 mini chocolate eggs (you could use Cadbury Mini Eggs)
1Preheat the oven to 180°C and line a baking sheet with greaseproof paper. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until light and fluffy. Add the flour and lemon zest, and with your hands work the mixture into a dough. If it’s a little dry, add a drop of water. Wrap in clingfilm and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
2 Lightly dust a work surface and rolling pin with flour, then roll the dough out to ½cm thickness. Use a gingerbread man cutter to stamp out shapes – you will need to gather the scraps and then reroll them to make all 15 biscuits.
3 Place the shapes upside down on the baking sheet, so what would have been the legs of each man become the bunny ears. Pinch the top of the ears so they’re less rounded and more pointed. Press a mini chocolate egg in the middle of each bunny and carefully shape the arms around them. With a toothpick, make deep holes for the eyes and noses.
4 Chill in the fridge for another 30 minutes to firm up the dough – this will help the bunnies keep their shape when baking. Bake for 10 minutes until golden around the edges. Leave to cool, pop the kettle on and enjoy with a cup of tea.
HotCross MugCake
Serves: 1
YOU WILL NEED:
3 tbsp self-raising flour
1 tbsp light brown sugar
½tsp ground cinnamon, plus extra for dusting
½tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp sunflower oil
2 tbsp milk
10g raisins
5 chocolate orange eggs (You could use Terry’s Chocolate Orange Mini Eggs)
1Stir the flour, brown sugar and ground cinnamon together in a medium-sized microwaveable mug. Mix in the vanilla extract and sunflower oil and milk until smooth. Stir in the raisins and chocolate orange eggs.
2 Microwave o
