Quick recipe finder Chocolate dipped chocolate shortbread
Bake a batch of melt-in-your mouth chocolate shortbread for your Red Nose Day bake sale and watch the money roll in.
By Martha Kearney From The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
Ingredients
- 225g/8oz butter
- 140g/5oz caster sugar
- 1 free-range egg yolk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 250g/9oz plain flour
- 25g/1oz cocoa powder
- pinch salt
- 100g/3½oz dark chocolate, finely chopped
For coating
- 200g/7oz dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa solids), finely chopped
- 200g/7oz milk chocolate, finely chopped
- 200g/7oz white chocolate, finely chopped
Method
Preheat oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5. Line a baking tray with baking parchment.
With a handheld electric mixer, beat together the sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl. Beat in the egg and the vanilla extract.
In another bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa and salt. Stir into the butter mixture, then stir in the chopped chocolate.
Roll teaspoonfuls of dough into balls and place on the lined baking tray at least 2.5cm/1in apart. Flatten slightly with the back of spoon.
Bake the biscuits for 10 minutes. Allow to cool for a minute on the tray, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Meanwhile, melt the three types of chocolate separately in a microwave (at least a minute). Alternatively, melt the chopped chocolate in a bowl suspended over a pan of simmering water (do not allow the bottom of the bowl to touch the water).
Dip the cooled biscuits halfway into one type of chocolate, then allow the excess to run off before placing on a sheet of baking parchment to set.
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