Quinoa Shortbread

Name: Quinoa Shortbread
Ingredients: 1 cup (250 mL) all-purpose flour; ¾ cup (185 mL) quinoa flour; 1 cup (250 mL) butter, softened; 1 cup (250 mL) superfine sugar (or white sugar); 1 cup (250 mL) superfine sugar (or white sugar); ¼ cup (60 mL) chocolate chunks or chocolate chips; ¼ cup (60 mL) chocolate chunks or chocolate chips

Preparation info

Makes
2½ dozen

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Quinoa 365

By Patricia Green and Carolyn Hemming

Published 2011

About

This shortbread has the nutritious advantage of quinoa but still has that melt-in-your-mouth goodness. These cookies look great decorated for the holidays. An easy method for shaping the cookies is to form the dough into a log, chill it in the refrigerator and slice perfect rounds.

Ingredients

1 cup (250 mL) all-purpose flour
¾ cup (185

Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 500°F (260°C).

Sift the flours together and evenly spread the mixture onto a large baking sheet. Place on the top oven rack for 4 to 5 minutes, until the flour has a lightly toasted appearance. Remove the pan from the oven, gently stir the flour and toast fo