Chocolate Dipped Shortbread

Given to me by a girlfriend but all we know is it came from a TV cooking show in Australia, she wrote the recipe down and it was delcious.

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Serves: 8
• Yields: 16-20 cookies/biscuits

Ingredients

• 250  g unsalted butter
• 1⁄4 cup caster sugar
• 2  cups flour (lain or all purpose)
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 100  g chocolate (white, dark or milk or a bit of each melted)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 170C (fan forced) about 185/190C for conventional.
2. Cream butter and caster sugar together until fluffy.
3. Toss in the flour, baking powder and vanilla essence and mix till combined.
4. Place spoonfulls of mixture onto a lined baking tray and lightly press with a fork to flatten a little if you like.
5. Bake in oven fir 15 to 20 minutes (my friend set hers for 12 minutes and kept a check from then - her oven tends to be hot - and reconed they were perfect at 16 to 18 minutes - won't disagree with her on that).
6. Allow to cool and then drizzle over with the melted chocolate of choice.