Chocolate Shortbread Recipe

This Chocolate Shortbread Recipe is something unique for your next get-together.

This recipe is super quick and easy, and yet the cookies look like they just came from a bakery!

Because this cookie dough is rolled out before baking, you can use your favorite cookie cutters for holiday treats or a party-time dessert.

Drizzled with melted chocolate, these classic shortbread cookies are impossible to resist.

Chocolate Shortbread Recipe

1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
1 cup mini chocolate chips, semisweet
10 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons granulated sugar

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Sift together the flour and cornstarch with the kosher salt. Set the mixture aside.

In a medium bowl, cream the butter until light and fluffy with an electric mixer, then add the confectioners' sugar and the granulated sugar. Beat in the vanilla extract.

With the mixer on low speed, slowly pour in the flour mixture and mix until a dough forms. Add in 1/2 cup of the chocolate chips and make sure they are well distributed.

Divide the dough into 2 pieces, and pat each one out on a floured work surface until you have a 6 inch round. Transfer each piece onto an ungreased cookie sheet and cut each round into 6 wedges.

Melt the remaining 1/2 cup of chocolate chips and keep warm.

Bake the cookies for 25 to 30 minutes, until the tops are lightly golden. Remove the wedges to wire racks sitting on top of waxed paper. Drizzle each cookie with some of the melted chocolate - the waxed paper should catch the drips, which you can re-melt and pour over the cookies again.

Food For Thought - For a slightly crispier shortbread, omit the chocolate chips in the dough and save it for the melted drizzle. Other options include using butterscotch chips and peanut butter chips. Why not try all three?

You Might Need:

• Kitchen Supply Aluminum Half Size Sheet Pan 18-inch by 13-inch

• Calphalon 12-by-17-Inch Rectangular Nonstick Cooling Rack

• Silpat 11-5/8-by-16-1/2-Inch Nonstick Silicone Baking Mat

• Oxo Good Grips Cookie Scoop