Easter Chocolate Biscuits

Ingredients:
110g butter, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup plain flour, sifted
1/4 cup cocoa powder, sifted
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
125g dark chocolate, melted
250g dark chocolate, chopped
1 packet speckled solid milk chocolate easter eggs
50g dark chocolate, melted (extra)

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees and line 2 baking trays with non-stick paper.
2. Beat the butter and sugar until very pale and creamy.
3. Add the egg and vanilla and beat for another 2-3 minutes.
4. Stir the sifted flour, cocoa powder and melted chocolate through the mixture.
5. Stir in the chopped chocolate.
6. Shape the mixture into balls (about the size of 1 tablespoon) and place on baking trays.
7. Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until cracks begin to appear on the surface.
8. Cool on wire racks.
9. When cool, dip easter eggs into the extra melted chocolate and place one on top of each biscuit.

Adapted from "Double chocolate cookies" in Donna Hay. (2007). Simple essentials: chocolate. Pymble, N.S.W.: Harper Collins Publishers Australia.