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Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies
Adding chocolate chunks to a simple shortbread biscuit, takes it to the next level!
Ingredients
- 300 grams plain flour
- 100 grams caster sugar
- 200 grams butter
- 100 grams chocolate chips or chopped chocolate
- 1 tablespoon caster sugar superfine sugar for dredging
Instructions
- Take the butter out of the fridge for a few hours to soften,
- Put 300 grams (2½ cups) plain (all purpose) flour and 100 grams (½ cup) caster sugar into a large bowl.
- Take a 200 gram (1 cup) block of butter and push it into the mixture of flour and sugar. The butter will gradually take up more of the dry mixture as you work it in. It only takes a few minutes of kneading the mixture and then suddenly you will find that the dough has come together.
- Chop 100 g (½ cup) of chocolate or chocolate chips and knead into the dough once it has come together.
- Pat down on a work surface and use a rolling pin to roll the dough to about 1 cm (¼ in) and cut out with a cookie cutter. You will probably have to keep pushing the dough back together again as it is very crumbly.
- Slide the cut biscuits off the work surface with a knife and onto a baking sheet.
- Bake in the oven at 170C (325F) Mark 3 for about 8 minutes until firm and pale golden brown.
- Lift onto a cooling tray with a spatula and dust with caster (superfine) sugar.
Notes
You can make plain shortbread biscuits, just omit the chocolate, the rest of the ingredients remain the same.
Yield depends on size of cutter.
Yield depends on size of cutter.
Nutrition
Calories: 284kcalCarbohydrates: 33gProtein: 3gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 37mgSodium: 125mgPotassium: 30mgSugar: 13gVitamin A: 435IUCalcium: 17mgIron: 1.3mg