It's too hot to spend much time in the kitchen, but summer is for pleasure. Just three minutes with a mixer and you will have two sleeves of black rich chocolate dough for the freezer. Then, whenever you want something nice, slice off some wafers, thin as you like, turn on the oven, and go water the plants or something. It's a maximum return for minimum effort:
We will need:
250 g/ 1 C butter
1/2 tsp. salt
250 g / 1 1/4 C sugar
125 g/ 4 1/2 oz. melted semi-sweet chocolate
1 egg
70 g/scant 1 C cocoa powder
300 g/ 2 1/2 C flour
coarse grained raw sugar is you have it, for rolling the logs in.
Beat the softened butter, salt, sugar, and melted chocolate together. Add the cocoa powder and the egg, and when that is smooth, blend int he flour with a spoon so the dough does not toughen.
Divide in two, and make logs as fat and short or as long and thin as you like. I do one of each- small for tea time, large for constructing desserts.
Roll the log in coarse sugar if you have any, or chopped nuts, or chopped chocolate, or anything you like or nothing at all, wrap in plastic, and store in the freezer. when you are ready to have some, turn the oven on to 170 C/ 350 F, line baking sheet with non-stick paper, and slice as thinly as you like. Put them on paper with just a little room between them.
Bake 10 - 12 minutes- they will look dry, but you can press your finger into them- they will crisp as they cool.
Great with cherries.
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