CRACKED BISCUITS

 200 g dark chocolate, finely chopped

50 g butter

2 eggs

70 g brown sugar

1 vanilla 

100 g self-rising flour

1 tsp baking powder

A pinch of salt

100 g sugar

100 g icing sugar

Melt the chocolate and butter over low heat, mix well and put aside.  Mix the flour, baking powder and salt and place aside.

Whip the eggs with the brown sugar and the vanilla and stir into the chocolate and flour  mixture until no white streaks are visible. 

Place the mixture in a bowl, cover it with cling film and refrigerate overnight.  The next day shape small cherry-sized balls and roll them first in sugar and then in icing sugar.  Preheat the oven to  180 C (350 F) and bake for 12 minutes until the biscuits swell and crack .

Cool the biscuits and store them in the refrigerator.