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Recipe: Mocha Shortbread

January 21, 2016 by Susan Leave a Comment

After Lavazza’s generous delivery of coffee before Christmas, I still had (and still have!) masses of coffee to use. While I’m not a coffee drinker (thankfully Mr B is, and will get through our supply without too much trouble!) , I do like coffee flavoured sweet treats and bakes, so had it in mind to try out some new ideas using the anniversary blend.

I hope in time to make some other coffee flavoured bakes and treats, but thought I’d start today with something simple -shortbread, and I’ve gone with adding a mocha spin to it in the form of freshly brewed coffee and dark chocolate pieces.

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Mocha Shortbread
Cuisine: Biscuit
Author: Mess in the Ness
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 25 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 12 bars
Makes 12 buttery mocha shortbread fingers, flavoured with coffee and dark chocolate pieces.
Ingredients
  • 225g plain flour
  • 40g cornflour
  • 190g unsalted butter, cold and diced into cubes
  • 75g caster sugar
  • 3 tbsp hot coffee
  • 100g dark chocolate – chopped into small pieces
Instructions
  1. Boil the kettle and make a cup of coffee.
  2. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees (fan).
  3. In a food processor, add both flours and the butter. Blitz until you have fine crumbs.
  4. Add these to a bowl with the sugar and stir until well combined.
  5. Add the chocolate pieces to the bowl and stir again, ensuring that they are equally distributed throughout.
  6. Add a tablespoon of the hot coffee to the mixture and stir to combine, Repeat until the three tablespoons of coffee have been used up.
  7. Put the mixture into a 18cm square tin, ensuring the dough is level. Press down hard on all areas of the tin to compact the dough in the tin.
  8. Bake in the preheated oven until the dough is a pale golden brown. This may take up to 20-25 minutes.
  9. Once this has been reached, take out of the oven and score the shortbread into 12 bars. Leave to cool completely in the tin until cold.
  10. These will keep in an airtight tin for up to 5 days.
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