Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Dessert: Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Cookies


What you'll need: 
1 1/2 cup softened butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl combine butter, sugar, vanilla and beat until creamy. Blend in flour and salt. Shape dough into balls about 1 inch for each cookie. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and flatten with bottom of a measuring cup (or a glass, spoon, whatever you have lying around) dipped in sugar. Bake about 10 minutes until lightly browned on edge. Remove from cookie sheet and cool completely. Make sure that the cookies are relatively small (the bigger they are, the easier they break). 

Dipping sauce:
1 (12 oz.) bag semi sweet chocolate morsels
1 tbsp. solid shortening

Melt over hot (not boiling) water the chocolate morsels and shortening. Dip each cookie halfway into chocolate. Chill in refrigerator 30 minutes on waxed paper lined cookie sheet. Yields about 5 dozen.

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