Chocolate Shortbread

Preheat the oven to 180C.

Get the Power Tools out! Get the butter to room temperature and use your electric beater to whip it up into a creamy texture. Tip the sugar in and keep beating. It should be 'fluffy'.

Sift in the flour, cocoa and salt and work it through with a wooden spoon. It should roll up into a bal of dough.

Get your hands in there and give it a few seconds of kneading. NOT too much!

Press the dough into a 20 - 23 cm cake tin (make sure it's greased) until it's a nice even layer. Pirce the top with a fork a few times.

Bake for 15 - 20 mins but be careful it doesn't go any browner than it already is.

Cut it up into triangles and dust with icing sugar.

Chocolate Shortbread - what do you reckon?

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  • Seriously Easy!

    Posted by Steve., 16/02/2009 4:30pm (3 years ago)

  • Very good.

    Posted by Steve, 08/02/2009 12:23pm (3 years ago)

  • Alternately leave out the cocoa; making a standard short bread recipe and use dark chocolate drops/pieces 1/2 -1 cup once butter/sugar mixture fluffy, fold in with a spoon. You can also spilt the flour 50-50 with rice flour for a lighter, crunchier consistency. Don't be afraid to let the short bread brown slightly (do burn it!) adds to flavor and appearance.

    Posted by Phill, 08/02/2009 10:25am (3 years ago)

  • Thanks Steve,
    Gonna try this recipe tonight , sounds simple enough for me to have a crack at.

    Posted by Austyn, 08/02/2009 10:02am (3 years ago)

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