Baking With Tanya Bakes - Mary Berry's Chocolate Fork Biscuits

So, I'm back and I'm back bringing something new and fresh to my blog. I have always been keen on baking since growing up, as I was always baking anything I/we could think of with my gran when I was younger and it is something which is quite close to my heart as I feel like it was something we could bond over.

Anyway, since one of my favorite bloggers/vloggers/youtubers brought out a wonderful baking book (which I obviously pre-ordered and arrived on the day it came out), I have decided to do my own baking series with recipes from Tanya Bakes! Tanya Burr has always inspired me with everything she does, so now I guess I'm giving back to her! The series won't be every week but I will try and bake and blog about it as often as possible. This series is where I share with you the process I had to go through to make and bake the recipes in the book and my opinions on them too.

For my first post on 'Baking With Tanya Bakes' I decided to give the Mary Berry's Chocolate Fork Biscuits a go!

Can I just say how beautiful all the pictures in Tan's book are!

As you can clearly see, the ingredients in this recipe are quite simple and there are not many at all actually. I used; unsalted butter, golden caster sugar, self raising flour, cocoa powder. Also the equipment I used to make the biscuits included greaseproof paper, a mixing bowl, a whisk, a weighing scale, cups/bowls, a fork, a baking tray and obviously an oven. I would usually use a mixer, however mine sadly broke and I haven't got round to buying another one yet! 

First things first I measured all my ingredients:

My weighing scale is actually quite old and old fashioned - so next time I'll spare you the grubby picture of it, until I buy a new one!

I then put the sugar and the butter in the mixing bowl and starting whisking away.. Little did I know how hard you had to work to get the end result - I think I now have one very muscly arm ha! 

  Then, I added in the cocoa powder and the flour bit by bit until it was like a dough texture.

Then, it was time to make the balls and transfer them onto the tray (which I had greaseproofed) and then with a fork press down lightly to flatten.

Some were obviously bigger than the rest, so maybe I did go a bit overboard with some... BUT I didn't care. I then put them in the oven and waited for what seemed a very long time.. tick tock.

Finally, it was time to take them out and I was so so excited! This was the end result!

                               

Don't they look delicious! Maybe they don't look like Tan's lovely ones in her book, but I was quite proud of myself! But, unfortunately I didn't like them. My mother liked them, so I guess they were not my cup of tea. Oh well! There's always next time right???

Thank you for reading my very first Baking with Tanya Bakes post, I really appreciate it!

If you'd like to see more or if you'd like me to do specific recipe from Tanya Bakes, please comment below.