Sprinkles / drinking chocolate powder – to decorate
Confectionary – to fill basket
Directions
Place the flour, cocoa powder, icing sugar, butter, vanilla paste, egg and melted chocolate into the food processor and process until together in a ball. If more moisture is required, add a little iced water at a time until it forms a ball. Wrap and let it rest in the refrigerator for an hour.
Once rested, roll out to be 3-5mm thick. Cut out 16 large hearts using a cookie cutter. Place 4 onto a large baking tray, these will be the basket bottom. Using a smaller heart cookie cutter, cut out the inside of the remaining large hearts and place all hearts (little insides and heart shaped borders) onto baking tray.
Pre-heat oven to 170°C. Place the biscuits into the oven and cook for 10-12 minutes or until cooked.
Remove the biscuits from the oven and let cool on a cooling rack.
Melt the extra 60g dark chocolate and let cool slightly. Place the melted chocolate into a small zip lock bag and cut a little of one corner off and use this as a piping bag. Pipe around the outside of each of the 4 heart bottoms and place one heart border on each heart base. Continue until the basket is 4 biscuits high. Let cool until the chocolate sets. Use any remaining melted chocolate on the little hearts and coat with sprinkles or dust with drinking chocolate.
Fill the heart biscuit baskets with favourite lollies and put the little heart biscuit on top.
