Shortbread
cookies are very simple to make and can be easily flavored with chocolate or
fruit jams. They do taste delicious without adding any of those flavors, but
since it is not a very sweet cookie, I prefer some kind of filling to sweeten
it up a little. I found a wonderful recipe for a chocolate filled shortbread in
the book Crazy for Chocolate,
which I’ve modified a little.
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
Shortbread
125g
(4oz) butter, chopped
1/2
cup icing sugar
1 cup
of all-purpose flour
1 1/2
teaspoons of baking powder
1/4
tsp salt
1/2
cup cornflour
1
tablespoon iced water
Filling
60g (2
oz) dark chocolate
60 g
(2 oz) cream cheese
1 egg,
lightly beaten
1.
Preheat oven to 350oF. Grease a baking tray. Combine flour, baking
powder, salt.
2.
Beat butter and icing sugar until creamy. Add flour mixture and water. Process
for few seconds until mixture comes together. Wrap in plastic wrap and
refrigerate for an hour.
3. For
the filling, melt dark chocolate. Beat cream cheese until soft, add cooled
melted chocolate and half of the beaten egg, and mix well.
4.
Roll out the shortbread mixture between two sheets of aluminum foil to about
1/4 inch thickness. Cut out rounds with a cookie cutter. If you don’t have
anything round to cut with, just cut out squares with a knife.
5.
Place half the rounds on the prepared tray. Place 1/2 teaspoon of the filling
in the centre of the rounds, brush edges with remaining beaten egg and place
the remaining rounds over the filling. Press edges lightly to seal.
6.
Bake 10-15 minutes or until golden. Transfer to wire rack. Dust warm cookies with
powdered sugar, or a mixture of powdered sugar and cocoa….or just use Nesquik
like I did :-)
Enjoy the cookies with a hot cup of tea or coffee.
~Gayatri
I thought you would post modak today! :p
ReplyDeletehehe....I didn't make any ;-)
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