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"BN style" chocolate-filled biscuits

These are similar to the BN biscuits so well-known in France. They are a sandwich of chocolate filling between two layers of biscuit. Children adore them!

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Last modified on: March 21^th 2011

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For 25 pieces, you will need:

1 100 g caster sugar
2 100 g butter
3 2 eggs
4 250 g flour
5 100 g dark chocolate
6 100 ml cream
7 1 pinch salt
Total weight: 750 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
52 min.	4 hours	20 min.	5 hours 12 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

In a food processor bowl, mix: 100 g caster sugar, 100 g butter, 2 eggs, 250 g flour and a pinch of salt.

Knead on slow speed until the dough is smooth (around 3 or 4 minutes).

Stage 2 - 2 hours

Shape the dough into a flat cake and wrap in plastic film. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight.

Stage 3 - 7 min.

After this resting time, roll out the dough and prick all over with a fork or pastry pricker (pique-vite).

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Preheat the oven to 200°C (390°F).

Cut out circles with a cutter for round biscuits. For rectangular ones, cut strips, then cut these across into rectangles.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Transfer the biscuits to a baking sheet. A metal spatula or slice is handy for this.

Stage 6 - 20 min.

Cook until the biscuits are a light golden brown.

Stage 7 - 20 min.

Prepare a chocolate ganache with 100 g dark chocolate and 100 ml cream, let cool until it is quite thick and "pasty" (rather like Nutella chocolate spread).

You can speed this up by standing the base of the pan in cold water and stirring from time to time.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

Transfer the ganache into a forcing bag .

Pipe a generous strip of chocolate along the rectangular biscuits.

Stage 9 - 5 min.

Then cover with a second biscuit and press lightly so that it is level and sticks.

Ideally the chocolate should show on each side without spilling out. Scrape off any excess with a knife.

Stage 10

For round biscuits, pipe a circle.

Stage 11

And as before, place a second biscuit on top and press down lightly.

Stage 12 - 2 hours

Assemble all the biscuits like this then refrigerate for a few hours to set the ganache completely.

Your "BN style" biscuits are ready.

Remarks

You can add extra filling if you prefer: 2 strips for the rectangular biscuits or 2 circles for the round ones.

The biscuits used here are rather dry by choice, but use your imagination and try this with richer biscuits (shortbread style) or with a stronger flavour (almonds, oats, etc.).

Keeping

1 or 2 days in a closed metal box.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,986 Kcal or 12,502 Kj	41 gr	352 gr	157 gr
149 %	16 %	33 %	24 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
398 Kcal or 1,666 Kj	5 gr	47 gr	21 gr
20 %	2 %	4 %	3 %

Per piece
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
119 Kcal or 498 Kj	2 gr	14 gr	6 gr
6 %	1 %	1 %	1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Egg, Gluten

How much will it cost?

For 25 pieces : 2.43 €
Per piece : 0.10 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spinach and Comté Loaf, Fruit crumble, Old style brioche, Soft apple cookies, Nanou's apple and almond cake, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Double raspberry tartlets, Jam doughnuts, Flambéd bananas , Like Bounty, Doughnuts, ... All
	Dark chocolate: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate mousse, Italian hot chocolate , Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes, Chocolate mousse with hazelnuts, Nanou's chocolate cake, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Two-stage beef chuck , Chicken breasts in a potato crust, Duet of creamed cauliflower and cabbage , Brownies, How to prepare spinach, ... All

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Look for or google "pique-vite"
Posted by jh january 18^th 2014 at 18:31 (n° 2)
Where did you acquire the small plastic pastry pricker? I can't find one on the web. Thanks.
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