Nice Chocolate Flake Shortbread Cookies

In my concluding weblog post, I talked nearly basic, no frill 3 portion shortbread cookies! But Wed on FOX59, I talked nearly customizing the cookies amongst mix-ins together with toppings, together with I shared my chocolate flake shortbread cookies. There was a lot of involvement inward these cookies, together with hence I decided to write a postal service nearly those cookies separately.

Like I said inward my segment, this recipe is the exact same every bit the basic shortbread cookies recipe. The solely divergence is the add-on of chocolate chips inward the dough.

As you lot tin encounter inward the pictures, I besides dipped the cookies inward chocolate together with sprinkled toasted kokosnoot on top, together with hence I volition include that inward the recipe every bit well!

Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies

Servings: Makes nearly xx cookies depending on how big you lot brand them

Ingredients

For the cookies

• 1 loving cup (2 sticks) salted butter, room temperature
• 3/4 loving cup powdered sugar
• (Optional: ii teaspoons vanilla extract)
• 2 together with 1/4 cups flour
• 3/4 loving cup chocolate chips 

For the toppings

• 6 ounces of your favorite chocolate (milk, dark, or semi-sweet)
• 1/4 loving cup shredded coconut, unsweetened

Directions for chocolate flake shortbread cookies

1. Beat the butter inward a mixing bowl until polish together with creamy (about 1 minute)
2. Add the powdered saccharide together with optional vanilla extract together with mix until smooth, occasionally scraping downwardly the sides of the bowl (about ii minutes)
3. Slowly add together inward the flour together with mix until only combined – create non overmix!
4. Stir inward the chocolate chips
5. Flatten the dough out on a baking canvas lined amongst wax newspaper together with encompass amongst a slice of plastic wrap.
6. Chill dough for at to the lowest degree 1 lx minutes or upward to 72 hours.
7. When you’re ready to bake the cookies, preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
8. Remove the plastic roll from the top of the dough, together with cutting the dough into shapes using your favorite cookie cutter.
9. Place on a prepared baking canvas together with bake for 10 – fifteen minutes (depending on the size of your cookie, they brand get got to a greater extent than or less time; get-go checking the doneness at 10 minutes)
10. Remove cookie from oven together with cool on a wire rack

Directions for toppings

1. While the cookies are cooling, spread kokosnoot onto baking canvas lined amongst parchment paper
2. Bake for 3 minutes, push clitoris baking canvas out of oven together with stir, position dorsum inward oven together with bake some other 3 minutes
3. Put chocolate inward microwave prophylactic bowl together with rut at thirty 2nd intervals until melted, stirring betwixt each interval
4. Dip cookie inward melted chocolate together with sprinkle shredded toasted kokosnoot on top; house cookie dorsum on wire rack until chocolate hardens
5. Cookies are ready to serve 1 time chocolate has hardened
6. Cookies volition rest fresh for nearly a calendar week inward an airtight container