Shortbread

Name: Shortbread
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 40
Ingredients: 350 g soft butter; 125 g Sugar; 450 g Flour; 1 pinch Salt; 1/2 TEASPOON grated peel of 1 untreated orange; 50 g Dark chocolate coating; baking paper

AUTHOR
Arlie Wyatt

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
75 mins

TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 40

350 g soft butter
125 g Sugar
450 g Flour
1 pinch Salt
1/2 TEASPOON grated peel of 1 untreated orange
50 g Dark chocolate coating
baking paper

Directions

1
Mix butter and sugar. Mix flour and salt. Knead orange zest and flour into the butter. Chill for 30 minutes. Roll out dough about 8 mm thick and cut into strips (about 7 x 2 cm).
2
Put them on 2-3 baking trays lined with baking paper at a distance of 3 cm and make holes in the biscuits with a wooden stick. Bake the trays one after the other in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for about 15 minutes. Take out the biscuits and pierce the holes. Let the biscuits cool down. Melt the chocolate coating over a warm water bath and decorate the biscuits
3
Waiting time approx. 45 minutes