Chocolate Surprise Biscuits

Choccy biscuits, short in texture, buttery, sweet but deep with cocoa and nestling a chunk of chocolate inside. Yes please.
This is an inadvertent adaptation of a recipe by Nigella Lawson, from the ‘How to be a Domestic Goddess’ book. I had made these biscuits and liked them, but they really are very short and I wasn’t sure about a biscuit that needed a glug of liquid after every bite.
Fast forward a bit and we went to a Food Fair in Brighton. One of the (many) organic chocolate stalls had cookies with a nice chunk of chocolate inside – jolly nice they were too. I looked at the ingredients and was thrilled (and amazed) to see that it was indeed all natural – no stabilisers or weird things listed. The list of ingredients was strangely familiar, as was the texture, when finally the penny dropped. I knew I knew this biscuit from somewhere. So I set to work.
Well, when I say I set to work, I mean about a year later.
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