Chocolate Dipped Shortbread
Recipe: #15069
October 24, 2014
Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Dropped, British, 5 Ingredients Or Less, Christmas, Oven Bake No Eggs, Vegetarian, Flour, Chocolate, Butter/Margarine, more
"Given to me by a girlfriend but all we know is it came from a TV cooking show in Australia, she wrote the recipe down and it was delicious."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (81.7 g)
- Calories 422.7
- Total Fat - 29 g
- Saturated Fat - 17 g
- Cholesterol - 67.2 mg
- Sodium - 67.6 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 38.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.5 g
- Sugars - 14.3 g
- Protein - 3.9 g
- Calcium - 37.8 mg
- Iron - 0.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 170C (fan forced) about 185/190C for conventional.
Step 2
Cream butter and caster sugar together until fluffy.
Step 3
Toss in the flour, baking powder and vanilla essence and mix till combined.
Step 4
Place spoonfulls of mixture onto a lined baking tray and lightly press with a fork to flatten a little if you like.
Step 5
Bake in oven fir 15 to 20 minutes (my friend set hers for 12 minutes and kept a check from then - her oven tends to be hot - and reconed they were perfect at 16 to 18 minutes - won't disagree with her on that).
Step 6
Allow to cool and then drizzle over with the melted chocolate of choice or use more than one if you wish.
Tips
No special items needed.