Chocolate Shortbread Balls

Submitted by Chef #161300

"I am crazy about biscuits, especially shortbread and this is extra special with the chocolate inside.Abbbssolutely divine!!! I received this recipe from The Blue Ribbon Kitchen."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 5
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 190 g butter
• 50 ml caster sugar
• 15 ml water
• 500 ml cake flour
• 100 g slab chocolate

directions

1. Method:

2. Cream the buter and castor sugar until light and creamy.
3. Add in the water.
4. Add in the sifted flour and work into a manageable.
5. dough.
6. Cut chocolate into small blocks (i. e each block into 2).
7. Shape pieces of dough around the blocks of chocolate.
8. and roll into small balls.
9. Bake on a greased baking sheet at 180 degrees celius.
10. for 15-20 minutes.
11. Roll in icing sugar while still warm.

Reviews

[Mary the Disturbed]

Some notes on my Chocolate Shortbread Balls experience: - I didn't get balls, but rather kinda domes, which is perfectly fine with me. Perhaps they would be more ball-like if you chilled the balls for 15 minutes or so before baking -- I'll try that tonight. Either way, they make a very nice-looking cookie, with an evenly round shape. - The icing sugar/powdered sugar thing didn't work - it wouldn't stick. I took a little extra chocolate instead, melted it and drizzled it over in lines. They looked very nice! - You don't specify, but I used unsalted butter and added just a pinch of salt to the recipe. That's my usual shortbread approach. - I used bits whacked off a chunk of bittersweet chocolate, which worked okay but wasn't as handy as I would have liked because of the sharp pointy corners. Next time I think I will buy a bar that's scored, at least, to make getting even-sized pieces of chocolate easier. FWIW, the bits I used were about halfway between a pea and a grape. Good cookie!