Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Makes: 25 cookies

Ingredients

115 gbutter
50 gicing sugar
100 gflour
50 grice flour
25 gcocoa powder
15 gground almond
20 galmond flakes
1QL Deli Fresh Egg Yolk
Chocolate Coating:
250 gdark chocolate
80 gwhite chocolate

Method

  1. Pre-heat oven at 160 degree Celsius. In a bowl, sift together flour, rice flour and cocoa powder. Add ground almond and mix well.
  2. With an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar for 3 minutes or until mixture is light and fluffy.
  3. Next, add QL Deli Fresh egg yolk and beat until well combined.
  4. Gradually add flour mixture and almond flakes, and stir until mixture forms a dough.
  5. Line a rectangle baking tin with a layer of cling film. Then, press dough into the tin until it forms a smooth surface. Cover with cling film and refrigerate for 5 hours.
  6. Slice dough into pieces that is 7mm in thickness. Transfer onto a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
  7. Bake cookies at 160 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack after baking.
  8. Melt dark chocolate in a microwave for 90 seconds and white chocolate for 50 seconds. Stir until smooth.
  9. Place white chocolate in a piping bag and set aside.
  10. Dip each cooled cookie into melted dark chocolate. Place on parchment paper and continue to pipe melted white chocolate onto the cookies.
  11. Drag a toothpick from one end to the other to create a wave pattern. Allow cookies to set before storing them in an airtight container.

 

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