Ladies' Kisses

Serves: 20
Preparation: 60 min (plus 2 hours resting time)
Cooking: 40 mins
Calories: __cal (__cal per serve as per recipe)

Ingredients
150g butter
1/2 cup caster sugar
1 egg yolk
1/2 tsp almond essence
1 cup ground almonds/almond meal
1.5 cups plain flour
50g chocolate

Cream butter and sugar, then beat in egg yolk, almond essence, ground almonds and flour. Chill for about 2 hours or until firm.

Preheat oven to 160C and line baking trays with grease proof paper.

Break off small pieces of dough and roll into balls with your hands making 40 altogether.

Place the balls on the baking sheets spacing them out evenly as they will spread in the oven.

Bake for 20 minutes or until golden. Remove from the sheets and cool.

Melt chocolate over a double boiler and use to sandwich pairs of cookies. Leave to cool and set before serving.

Choc Chip Biscuits

Serves: 24 biscuits approx
Preparation: 20 min
Cooking: 15-20 mins
Calories*: 2980cal (125cal per serve)

Ingredients
115g Margarine
1 Egg
1/2 Cup Castor Sugar
1tsp Vanilla Essence
1.5 Cups SR Flour
250g Choc Chips

Beat butter and sugar until smooth, beat in egg, add vanilla and flour. Stir in choc chips.
Roll into balls and flatten onto breased pan. Bake at 180C for approx 15 minutes (check at 10 minutes and cook until just becoming golden at the base)

Variants: You can add cocoa, cinnamon, nutmeg or ginger instead of choc chips. They're also a nice plain biscuit as well.

Tip: Double the recipe except for the choc chips. It makes about 50 biscuits and there is still a good ratio of choc chips. It is a little better balanced. You need approximately the same prep time but 40-60 minutes cooking time - allow 1.5 hours all together.