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Chocolate Orange Shortbread

Prep Time 9 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 100 g Caster sugar
  • 1 large Orange zest only
  • 200 g Butter room temp
  • 300 g Flour
  • 100 g Dark chocolate chips

Instructions
 

  • Tip your sugar into a large mixing bowl
  • Zest the orange directly into the bowl with the sugar, then mix briefly to combine
  • Add in your butter and beat until completely softened and slightly fluffy
  • Sift in the flour and add in the chocolate chips. Beat again until your mixture starts to form large clumps.
  • Tip your mixture out onto your work surface and gently squeeze to bring the dough together
  • Once your dough has come together, lightly flour your work surface, then place the dough on and lightly flour the top of it
  • Using a rolling pin gently flatten and roll out to about 1cm thickness
  • Cut out circles with a round cookie cutter, 6cm in diameter
  • Put cut out cookies on a baking tray
  • Chill for an hour in fridge
  • When your dough has been chilling for 45 minutes, turn your oven on to 160°C to preheat it
  • Bake the biscuits for 13-15 minutes until the edges feel firm and the middle is still slightly soft when pressed gently
  • Cool on your tray for a few minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely
  • As an optional decoration, melt the extra chocolate and drizzle over the top of each biscuit, then finish with an extra grating of orange zest