More cheese biscuits / biscuits for cheese

My second attempt was OK (made with flour, butter, Tesco's value soft cheese and a few bits of olive) but the consistency was more like pastry than biscuit.

The Technomage-cum-Chilimage therefore decided that it was his turn, and he, naturally, picked a spicy recipe. This is the one he used - Cheese Thins, from Chocolate & Zuccini. He used cheddar and made zillions. We topped a third with a few salt crystals, a third with a spicy mix and left the rest plain.

He reckons these are the first biscuits he's ever made, and jolly good they are too.



We scoffed four each while the tray was still too hot to touch but have showed a little bit more restraint since then - can't see them lasting very long though...

They are actually much cheesier than the original aim. Having lots of cheese is of course is a Very Good Thing and makes them very scrumptious, but we still want to perfect something that still leaves scope for putting cheese and chutney on top to serve, whereas these are just great on their own (though we're about to try a few topped with olive tapenade).

We've still got half of this batch to bake, but then the next attempt will perhaps be based on these but with less cheese and maybe a little oatmeal to see what that does to the texture.

I like this kind of cooking...very wicked....