Chocolate Shortbread

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    20

    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      2 hr 30

Appears in
The Chocolate Lover's Cookbook

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1987

  • About

Shorter than short, these literally melt in the mouth.

Ingredients

  • 275 g (9 oz) plain flour
  • 25 g (1

Method

Oven temperature Gas Mark 3/160°C/325°F

Sift the flour, cocoa and salt together and set aside. Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla extract together and then slowly incorporate the flour mixture. This can also be done in a food processor by first blending the dry ingredients together and then adding the vanilla if available, and the butter, cut into small pieces, and processing un