Chocolate Orange Sandwich Biscuits
One chocolate biscuit and one orange flavored biscuit, sandwiched together with orange buttercream.
Ingredients
Biscuits
- 4 oz or 110g butter, softened
- 2 oz or 55g caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- 1 egg
- 6 oz or 175g plain flour (all-purpose flour)
- pinch of salt
- 1 oz or 25g rice flour
- 1 tsp orange zest
- 1 oz or 25g drinking chocolate or cocoa powder
- ΒΌ tsp ground cinnamon
Buttercream
- 4 oz or 110g icing sugar (powdered sugar)
- 2 oz or 55g butter, softened
- 1 tsp orange zest
- splash of orange juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F/180C.
- Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the egg, then stir in the flour and pinch of salt.
- Divide the mixture in two.
- To one half, add the rice flour and orange zest.
- To the other half, add the cocoa and cinnamon.
- Roll each dough out and cut into rounds. I used a 58mm cutter and got 14 biscuits from each portion of dough.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
- Cream the butter and icing sugar together with the orange zest and splash of orange juice. When the biscuits are cold, sandwich one of each biscuit together with the buttercream.