Coffee Kisses

It's all well and good watching the Great British Bake Off (hereby referred to as TGBBO), and criticising their choice of flavour combination, but it is another thing entirely trying to make something of that standard.

Ever the optimist, Andy bought me the book from the first series for my birthday, and after flicking through for a recipe that didn't contain anything too weird and wonderful, I settled on coffee kisses. I don't have a food processor so everything I make is done by hand. Turns out Zumba is no match for beating eggs and making butter cream - baking is the better work out by far!

The recipe says it makes 16 halves, but I halved each half to make 32 bits in the end.

I went for the chocolate butter cream, because I was worried the coffee flavour might be overpowering so hoped the chocolate would offset it a little. Turns out you can't really taste the coffee at all in the end.  I think they look like mini hamburgers rather than biscuits, but happy for a first attempt.