Cookie Recipes - Chocolate Almond Mice

 

Ingredients

• 5 oz/150 g semisweet/dark chocolate, coarsely chopped

• 6 tbsp heavy/double cream

• 1 cup/125 g chocolate wafer crumbs

• 1/3 cup/50 g confectioners'/icing sugar

• 24 silver balls, to decorate

• 24 flaked almonds, to decorate

• Red licorice whips, to decorate

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Method:

1. Melt the chocolate with the cream in a double boiler over barely simmering water.

2. Mix in the chocolate wafer crumbs until well blended. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour, or until firm.

3. Form the dough into balls the size of tangerines, tapering one end to resemble the nose. Roll half the balls in the confectioners' sugar until well coated.

4. Decorate all with the silver balls to resemble the eyes, almonds for ears, and a small length of licorice for the tail. Refrigerate for 2 hours.