Choc-cherry lollipop biscuits

These pretty biscuits on a stick are sure to become a party favourite.
Photography by Ben Dearnley

Notebook:

• Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups (375g) plain flour
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 200g unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup (220g) firmly packed brown sugar
• 150g caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 250g milk chocolate, coarsely chopped
• 1 cup (200g) glace cherries, quartered
• 30 wooden icy pole sticks

1. Step 1
   Preheat oven to 180°C. Sift flour, bicarbonate of soda and 1/4 tsp salt into a bowl. Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla then stir in flour until just combined.
2. Step 2
   Roll heaped tablespoonfuls of mixture into balls. Place 5cm apart on baking paper-lined oven trays then, using your palm, flatten each to a 5cm round. Press an icy pole stick into each, then pieces of chocolate and cherries. Bake biscuits for 8-10 minutes or until golden. Cool on trays. Store in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.
   
   

   Notebook: - November 2005 , Page 137

   Recipe by Sophia Young
   taste.com.au