AN: I don't own any of these characters. I am merely borrowing them from Tolkien.
Advent Day 11.
Chocolate and Ginger Oat biscuits.
It was a shire tradition. Every family had their own take on the Yule biscuits. But it was still a tradition. One Bilbo was desperate to share with his new found family.
He commandeered a bench and oven in the vast kitchens of Erebor. As he worked, he greeted the dwarves he knew by name, engaging in conversations about what it was he was creating.
The evening meal bell came and went, the kitchen emptied of all but the most intrigued of dwarves.
He smiled serenely at them and packaged his biscuits carefully in waxed paper, tying them off with coloured ribbon.
Each dwarf left was passed a chocolate covered round of buttery biscuit and with a wink and a finger to his lips Bilbo left the kitchens.
The doors of his family would be found with a wrapped package come morning.
Ingredients
225g/8oz unsalted butter
100g/3½oz golden syrup
200g/7oz soft brown sugar
150g/3½oz plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp sea salt flakes
4 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp ground cinnamon
400g/14oz rolled oats
2 free-range eggs, beaten
50g/1¾oz stem ginger, chopped
115g/4oz good quality dark chocolate
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Line two baking trays with non-stick parchment. Melt the butter and the golden syrup in a pan over a low heat. Set aside to cool slightly.
Combine the sugar, flour, baking powder, salt and spices and mix well to combine. Stir in the rolled oats and mix thoroughly. Pour in the melted butter and syrup and stir until well combined. Then stir in the beaten eggs and the stem ginger.
Spoon in even, heaped teaspoons onto the lined baking trays, leaving room for them to spread. Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes. Remove the biscuits from the oven and set aside to cool completely.
Melt the chocolate in a bowl suspended over a pan of barely simmering water (do not let the bottom of the bowl touch the water). Dip the biscuits in the melted chocolate and place on a cooling rack until the chocolate has set.
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