Celebrity drinks expert, Olly Smith, has teamed up with Fairtrade trailblazer Cafédirect to help you create a mouth-watering, handmade ethical treat this Christmas. His quick and easy choccie biscuit recipe, which uses Cafédirect’s 100 per cent Fairtrade ‘Cocodirect’ drinking chocolate, makes a delicious, inexpensive and fairly traded homemade gift for friends, relatives and loved ones.
Olly Smith’s Cocodirect Biscuits
2oz. Fairtrade sugar
8oz. butter
8oz. self raising flour
3oz Cafédirect’s “Cocodirect” drinking chocolate powder
Method
Cream the butter and sugar together and then add the flour and Cocodirect powder. Form the mixture into little balls the size of walnuts. Place on baking tray and flatten with a wet fork leaving ridges. Cook at 165 degrees for 20-25 minutes (keeping an eye on them so that they don’t overbrown). These quantities will make approx 50-60 biscuits, so if you want to make less just half the recipe or simply form the mixture into larger sized balls.
The secret behind Cafédirect’s great-tasting hot drinks is the direct, long term relationships it fosters with the people that produce them. As well as always paying above market prices for its crops, over the last three years Cafédirect has reinvested, on average, 60% per cent of its profits back into growers’ businesses and communities. This support helps strengthen growers’ organisations, develop their knowledge and expertise and enables them to build a brighter, more sustainable future. As a result, Cafédirect always get the pick of the growers’ crop, so that you enjoy high quality, great tasting hot drinks. You can’t say fairer than that!
Cocodirect is available from most major supermarkets; RRP £2.29 for a 250g tub.
For further information about Cafédirect’s award-winning products visit www.cafedirect.co.uk. The site also contains information about Cafédirect’s grower partners, its pioneering Fairtrade work, and groundbreaking Climate Change project.
Source: FML Public Relations
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Delicious homemade Christmas gifts - at a fair price to you!
