Shortbread

Name: Shortbread
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 60
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: 60

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 with the whisk of the hand mixer. Mix flour and salt. Knead orange zest and flour with the dough hooks of the hand mixer into the butter. Chill for about 30 minutes. Roll out dough 5 8 mm thick and cut into strips (approx. 7 x 2 cm).
2
Put them on 2-3 baking trays lined with baking paper at a distance of approx. 2 cm and prick 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 let them cool down. Melt the chocolate coating over a warm water bath and decorate the biscuits
3
Waiting time approx. 45 minutes