Measure in the flour and baking powder. Make sure your kids use their finger to level the tea spoon so you add just the right amount of baking powder. We are excited about the opportunity to develop these three important pillars and look forward to working with our retail partners to drive growth through innovation and excitement in the category,” he explained, adding that Burton’s would work with its trade partners to build new category value with this premium capability.

Snip the stalk off the dried fig then cut the fruit into small pieces using the scissors (ask a grown-up to help you). Add to the bowl with the sugar and the fudge pieces. Remove any air before sealing the bag and ensure most biscuit pieces are less than ¼ of the biscuit size. This is good news for Fudges Biscuits, down in misty Dorset, often considered to be ‘Britain’s larder’. Fudges manufacture the best florentines in the UK and created a fabulously large range of biscuits to go with cheese. I used Fudges cheese biscuits when I ran The Underground Restaurant at Camp Bestival, to highlight the range of products, including good cheeses, from Dorset.Note 2 I developed this recipe with dark chocolate as I feel that we need a balance between the sweetness of the biscuits and the possibly over sweetness of the chocolate. Dark chocolate is much more bitter than milk chocolate, so it provides this balance in a way that milk chocolate would not achieve. Remove them from the oven and leave them to cool on the baking tray. They’ll continue to harder as they cool. Tear the mixture in half. Pull each piece into half again then each smaller piece into two, trying to keep them about the same size. This makes eight pieces of biscuit dough. These were a big hit in the Traybakes household. The base is sweet and a little crumbly and, funnily enough, a little bit fudgy too.

Once you have crushed the biscuits, set them aside as we prepare the fudge, then we add them in at the final stages of the recipe. Step by step instructions 5 to 8

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Biscuits are therefore on trend. Costas coffee is selling a giant British biscuit range to dunk in their coffee, although I’ve heard differing opinions on how good these are. Earlier this year we saw a biscuit festival in London. It is important to ensure that the butter is fully melted as otherwise there would be a few globs of butter in the fudge mix. Commenting on the merger, Browne said: “ After many years of looking at one another, we are excited about bringing together two businesses that share the same passion for crafting British biscuits with care, quality and innovation.’’ ​

Here are the step by step instructions to make the recipe. We start by lining a cake or slice tin with baking or parchment paper. Step by step instructions 1 to 4Roll each piece into a round ball then put onto the lined tray and flatten a little with your hand – repeat with the other seven biscuits.