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Chocolate truffle orange biscuits

What do you make for dessert for a French dinner party? Well this is what I came up with. These little biscuits are intended to be a hybrid of a chocolate truffle and a biscuit. Hence the size of the biscuit. The orange marmelade adds that ‘English’ flavour. From the French feedback last night these were a success.
Serve a couple of these with some scoops of chocolate ice cream and a hot orange marmelade sauce or just on their own.

Chocolate biscuit

200g flour
pinch of baking powder
100g sugar
100g butter
50g cocoa powder
2 egg yolks
juice of 1 orange
zest of 1 orange

Chocolate truffle filling
60g dark chocolate
50ml cream
10g butter

100g orange marmelade

3cm diameter cookie cutter

Preheat oven to 160°c.

Cream together butter and sugar. Add egg yolks, beat. Add orange juice and zest. Sift flour, baking powder and cocoa powder. Mix together. Use your hands to form dough into a ball. Chill for 15 minutes. Roll out to 3mm thickness. Cut out biscuits and bake on paper lined tray for 15 mins.
While biscuits are cooling. Break chocolate in small pieces. Boil cream. Pour half of it over chocolate. Let the chocolate melt for a bit and then stir. Pour rest of cream, mix and add butter. Mix well. Leave to cool for a bit before pouring it into a piping bag.
Heat marmelade in a pan until runny and smooth. Pour into a piping bag. Pipe a small amount in the centre of the biscuit. Then pipe a ring of chocolate ganache around the marmelade. Place another biscuit on top to make a sandwich. Makes about 80.