Recipe: Chocolate Shortbread

Ingredients:
175g salted butter (softened)
90g caster sugar
200g plain flour
2 tbsp cocoa powder
100g chocolate chips

Method:
1) Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2) Sift in the flour and cocoa powder, stirring together to form a soft dough. (Add chocolate chips at this point, if using). Keep stirring the dough together until it comes away clean from the sides of the bowl.
3) Leave the dough to chill in the fridge for at least 20 minutes.
4) Preheat oven to fan 180C and line 2 baking trays.
5) Roll out the dough, cut into shapes and place onto trays.
6) Bake for 10-12 minutes. Leave to cool on the tray to firm up. Decorate once cool, if desired.

For these biscuits, we decorated them with melted white chocolate (part of our work on skeletons!). I made the cone out of the same greaseproof paper I lined the trays with. 😊