Chocolate Short bread
CATEGORIES
INGREDIENTS
  • 1 cup butter (use good-quality butter! it makes all the difference.)
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
DIRECTIONS
  1. preheat oven to 300F.
  2. cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  3. sift together flour and cocoa, then blend into butter-sugar mixture, mixing until the dough holds together. refrigerate for a few minutes if the dough is too soft and sticky.
  4. form into 1-inch balls and flatten into a parchment-lined and greased baking pan leaving 3 inch spaces in between.(cookies will expand)
  5. bake for 30-35 minutes or until edges are firm. cool for 2-3 minutes in the pan before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. keep in an air-tight container.
  6. for plain shortbread:
  7. omit cocoa powder and increase flour to 2 1/8 cups. (2 1/4 cups if dough is still "wet") optional: add 1-2 tsp vanilla extract into the butter-sugar mixture.
  8. I like pressing black or white sesame seeds, poppyseeds, rolled oats or flaxseed on top before baking.