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Shortbread with two sorts of chocolate |
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These very short biscuits are very pretty with the two types of chocolate. Serve them at Christmas time.
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Makes 20 to 25:
- 330g plain flour
- 25g cocoa powder
- 130g icing sugar
- 200g softened butter
- 1 tsp of coffe extract
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 egg
- Ganache:
- 200g white chocolate
- 100g crème fraîche
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- Sieve the flour and cocoa powder together.
- In a bowl, work the sugar and butter with a wooden spoon to a thick cream. Add the salt, coffee and egg. Mix well, then add the flour/cocoa mixture. Knead for a couple of minutes and form a ball.
Place the pastry dough between two sheets of baking parchment, flatten a little with your hand, then roll out using a rolling pin to a thickness of 3 mm. Roll in both directions so that the dough is of an even thickness. Slide everything onto a baking sheet and refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours. The pastry should be left refrigerated long enough to harden so that the biscuits don’t stick.
- Preparation of the ganache:
Grate the white chocolate into a bowl, add the crème fraîche, and melt over a bain-marie. When the chocolate has melted, mix with a wooden spoon, then allow to cool to room temperature.
- Preheat the oven to 165°.
- Remove the pastry from the fridge and carefully life off the upper sheet of baking parchment. Using a biscuit cutter diameter 6 cm , cut out the biscuits and place on to another baking tray covered with baking parchment. Cut out a 3 cm hole from half of the biscuits with the end of a metal lid.
- Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
- Once cooled, spread the whole biscuits with a teaspoon of white chocolate ganache, then place the biscuits with the hole on top.
- Allow to cool for at least an hour.
These biscuits will keep up to 15 days in a tin.
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