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Mega Animal Biscuits

by Heather Mahy 10 photos Rated 90% 135 votes when voting closed

How to make giant animal biscuits:

Main ingredients, fat, sugar, flour and chocolate, who could go wrong? Approximate cost £7.

Flour, sugar, eggs, white chocolate bars and a bag of Cadbury Animals on the granite worktop

Blend fat and sugar.

Add flour, a bit of cocoa, vanilla and a couple of eggs (we also added glucose syrup for extra sugary yumminess).

Blocks of butter and sugar creamed with an electric hand whisk, original animal biscuits on a plate behind

Flour tipped from the bag onto the creamed mixture, wooden spoon standing in the bowl

Mix up to make a tough dough.

Two hands holding up a ball of cocoa biscuit dough above a large stockpot

Shape it to look like your animal of preference. We chose lion (pictured), elephant, monkey and hippo. Implements such as spoons, forks and anything you can find in the kitchen are useful at this point for the details.

Giant animal-shaped dough cut out on a baking tray, a tiny original biscuit beside it

Bake in the oven until browned. Remove from tray to cool. Smother with generous amount of chocolate on flat side.

Melted chocolate spread over one baked giant animal biscuit while a second cools plain beside it

We used a cooling wrack to create the criss cross pattern on the back.

Two chocolate-covered giant biscuits, one under a wire rack that has printed a grid in the chocolate

Leave to dry, or if you are impatient and hungry like us then pop them in to the fridge or freezer to get the chocolate to set quickly.

Four finished giant animal biscuits on the worktop with normal-sized ones scattered between them

Delicious!

A giant animal biscuit stood upright on a table, an original-size one propped in front

Ratio 1:250

A girl biting into a giant animal biscuit that spans both her hands

We calculated that there are enough calories in one of these bad boys for a whole day’s worth of food!

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