Paul Hollywoods Chocolate Marshmallow Tea Cakes Recipes

PAUL HOLLYWOOD'S CHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOW TEA CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325ºF/179ºC.
• Melt 300g of the chocolate over a bowl of simmering water. Allow to cool slightly . If the chocolate is too soft it wont line the moulds.
• Mix the flours, salt, baking powder and caster sugar together in a bowl and rub in the butter with your fingertips.
• Add the milk and stir together to form a smooth ball .
• Roll out your dough on a floured surface to about 5mm/1/4in thick. If you are making mini teacakes like I did, make sure your dough is very thin.
• Cut out six rounds with a 7.5cm/3in straight sided round cutter, or 12 rounds using a smaller cutter for the mini biscuit bases.
• Chill in the fridge for 10 minutes. Your biscuits need to be perfectly round and well chilled to ensure that they dont spread or shrink when you bake them.
• Bake the biscuits for 10-12 minutes. They do need to be hard, not soft as they form the base of the teacake.
• Cool on a wire rack.
• Next coat your moulds with the melted chocolate. I used the back of a spoon to do this. Its quite messy but dont worry about the chocolate spilled on the top of the mould it just peels off.
• Paul says to set aside and not refrigerate, but I found mine were perfectly shiny when set in the fridge.
• Dip the cooled biscuits in the remaining melted chocolate, covering them completely This is a seriously messy business, but you will eventually get the hang on it.
• TO MAKE THE MARSHMALLO
• Place all of the ingredients in a large bowl set over a pan of simmering water (make sure the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water).
• Whisk with an electric hand whisk for 6-8 minutes, it must be very stiff so it will hold when piped.
• Spoon the marshmallow mixture into a piping bag, and the remaining chocolate into another one.
• Pipe the marshmallow into each chocolate-lined mould just up to the top.
• Carefully pipe some chocolate on the marshmallow and a rim of chocolate around the biscuit base and then put your biscuit on top together.
• Wait until completely cold before you peel the tea cakes from the mould.