Chocolate Petit Fours

Mix the softened butter with the sugar in a bowl by hand, until the ingredients are evenly distributed. Add eggs one at a time with consistent mixing.

Add the flour, cocoa powder and grated lemon zest to form a dough. Press the dough together into a bawl, and then knead it lightly, pressing with hands until the dough is smooth. Cover and chill for half an hour.

To make the filling: place NESTLÉ Sweetened Condensed Milk, and chocolate in a saucepan, stir consistently on low heat until chocolate is melted. Set aside to cool to room temperature.

Sprinkle the dough with flour and place it between two sheets of greaseproof paper, then gently roll it between the papers into a 3mm thick using a rolling pin.

Cut out shapes with cookie cutter. Put 1 cm apart on greased baking sheets. Bake at 180˚C preheated oven, for 10-12 minutes or until firm.

Remove the cookies gently on a wire rack to cool.

Spoon the filling on half quantity of the petit fours, and cover with the remaining half.

Dust the petit fours with icing sugar to serve.