Light, buttery and soft, shortbread cookies are the basis of the festive baking, consists of just a few basic ingredients: butter, flour, sugar and vanilla extract. Friable Ina Garten’s recipe Day and Night thanks to melted chocolate glaze. Serve this beauty with a cup of coffee or a tall glass of cold milk – here you have it простой десерт или вкусный полдник. 
Time: 2 час. thirty min Difficulty: medium Quantity: 36 pcs. The recipes use volumetric containers: one cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 340 g unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 tbsp. sugar, plus some more for sprinkling
- 1 tsp natural vanilla extract
- 3.5 tbsp. premium wheat flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 170-200 g of crushed semisweet chocolate good qualities
Recipes with similar ingredients: vanilla extract, higher flour varieties, semi-sweet chocolate
Recipe preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 180C.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer with a nozzle for a shortbread beat dough butter and 1 tbsp. Sahara. Add vanilla extract. Sift flour and salt into a medium-sized bowl, then introduce them into the butter-sugar mixture. Whip at low speed until the dough gathers in a ball. Put on the working surface dusted with flour and form a flat disk, 2.5 cm thick. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes; the dough should harden, but remain ductile.
- Roll out the dough 1 cm thick on slightly dusted flour surface and cut into a rectangular mold measuring 7.5 x 2.5 cm. Put cookies on an ungreased baking sheet and sprinkle with sugar. Bake for 20-25 minutes until the edges are lightly browned. Cool when room temperature.
- When the cookie has cooled, put it on a baking sheet parchment paper. Put 85 g of chocolate in a glass bowl and melt in the microwave at maximum power for 30 sec (Do not trust the microwave timer; check the time by to your watch.) Stir with a wooden spoon. Keep heating 30 sec. until all the chocolate has melted. Add the remaining chocolate and let stand at room temperature, stirring frequently until the mixture becomes homogeneous. If after 5 min there will still be unmelted pieces of chocolate in it, heat the chocolate in the microwave for 5 seconds, stirring constantly, until the mixture becomes homogeneous. Stir vigorously to the chocolate has cooled slightly, this will make it more shiny.
- Pour or dip each cookie into chocolate so that it covered it. Put the cookies back on the parchment baking sheet and leave at room temperature until chocolate hardens in about 20 minutes. Culinary advice: If you do not have a mold 7.5 x 2.5 cm, you can cut the cookies into rectangles using wavy wheel for dough or a simple butter knife.
