Orange Biscuits recipe

For some very odd reason, when looking for a recipe to make this month, I had a bit of a cocoa craving, so decided to look for one that involved chocolate! I hit the jackpot with a delicious treat from Fintry Favourites, a recipe book published in 1983 from Fintry near Turriff in Aberdeenshire.

These orange biscuits can be made quickly and easily with just a few ingredients, and they have a lovely zingy shortbread texture, and just the right amount of chocolate!

These orange biscuits can be made quickly and easily with just a few ingredients, and they have a lovely zingy shortbread texture, and just the right amount of chocolate! The recipe came from J. M. Norrie from Slackadale, and we’d like to thank the chef very much for their generosity in sharing it.

Ingredients

• 100g (4oz) margarine
• 50g (2oz) castor sugar
• 125g (5oz) self-raising flour
• Grated rind of an orange
• 1 teaspoon orange juice (we squeezed the orange!)
• 25g (1oz) chocolate chips or grated chocolate
• Chocolate for decoration

Method

1. Cream the margarine, sugar and orange rind in a bowl – we used our electric hand mixer to whisk it into a thick paste quickly.
2. Add the flour, juice and chocolate chips and mix it all together.

1. Wet your hands (the mixture is sticky) and roll the mixture into small balls. If you like to be precise like me, I made each one 20g in weight, which made 15 biscuits in total.
2. Place a little apart on the trays and flatten with a wet fork.

1. Cook until golden brown in a fan oven for about 25 minutes at 160°C.
2. When the biscuits have cooled, decorate with melted chocolate.

For bonus popularity points, take the biscuits into your workplace or to a friend’s house to enjoy together!

By Magnus Dixon
Orkney and Shetland enthusiast, family man, loves walks, likes animals, terrible at sports, dire taste in music, adores audiobooks and films, eats a little too much for his own good.

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