CHOCOLATE CHIP SHORTBREAD COOKIES

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Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies are all of the goodness of melt-in-your-mouth shortbread mixed with just a bit little bit of chocolate.  Your household will love those simple tasty cookies!



Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 2/3 cup powdered sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup mini chocolate chips
  • 8 oz melting chocolate wafers


Instructions

  • In a enormous blending bowl, use a hand mixer to beat collectively butter and powdered sugar till pale and fluffy. Add in vanilla extract and beat till combined.
  • Add in flour and blend simply till flour disappears. Fold in mini chocolate chips.
  • Transfer dough to a gallon-sized resealable plastic bag, or location among NULL layers of plastic wrap. Roll till 1/4 inch thick. Refrigerate on a flat floor till firm, about 1 to 2 hours.
  • Remove dough from plastic and use a butter knife to chop into equal-sized squares or rectangles. Transfer cut items to a parchment lined baking sheet.
  • Bake at 325 ranges for 18-20 minutes, till edges are simply flippantly kissed with brown.
  • Melt dipping chocolate in a small microwave secure bowl by microwaving on excessive for 30 seconds at a time, stirring between. Dip cookies in chocolate overlaying 1/3 or 1/2 of the cookie and move to parchment paper to harden.


These cookies appear so fancy and impressive, but guess what? They purely require a handful of meals and are tremendous simple to make. You’ve got to love that! On best of all that, they're also tremendous tasty. These are vast for a tea party, child shower, brunch, or simply for a typical vintage treat.


I’ve dipped those cookies in melted chocolate. Specially, I used Ghirardelli’s melting wafers. You can use chocolate chips too, but wafers are simply so simple to work with. You also don’t must dip them in chocolate at all. It provides a fun and fancy finishing contact and a upper chocolate content, but you possibly too can have those cookies plain as well.


These cookies grasp their form which ability you possibly can cut them in squares or rectangles as shown, otherwise you possibly can use cookie cutters to arise together with your personal shape. Smaller cookie cutters would possibly require a rather shorter cooking time so be certain to observe them closely.



Nutrition
  • Calories: 234kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 25mg | Sodium: 87mg | Potassium: 48mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 6% | Calcium: 1.5% | Iron: 5.4%