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Viennese Shortbread

Name: Viennese Shortbread
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 3 h 5 min
Yield: 15 pieces
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 160 g butter; 50 g icing sugar; 10 g vanilla sugar; 220 g flour; 2 pinches fine (or table) salt; 30 g egg white; 100 g dark chocolate

The Viennese shortbread, or "Spritz", are small shortbread cakes, with a light vanilla taste and covered with chocolate.

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Duration

3 hours 5 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: November 5^th 2026

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For 15 pieces, you will need:

1 160 g butter
2 50 g icing sugar
3 10 g vanilla sugar
4 220 g flour
5 2 pinches fine (or table) salt
6 30 g egg white
7 100 g dark chocolate
Total weight: 570 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

35 min.

Resting

2 hours

Cooking

30 min.

All in all

3 hours 5 min.

Preparation 35 min.

Resting 2 hours

Cooking 30 min.

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Step-by-step recipe

Step 1 - ⌛ 1 hour

Preparation of the dough

In a small bowl, pour 160 g butter cut into small pieces.

If the butter is cold (it comes out of the fridge), let it soften at room temperature for at least 1 hour.

Step 2 - ⌛ 2 min.

Sift 50 g icing sugar over butter, then add 10 g vanilla sugar.

Step 3 - ⌛ 3 min.

Mix with a wooden spatula until smooth.

Step 4 - ⌛ 3 min.

Add 220 g flour, 2 pinches fine (or table) salt and 30 g egg white.

Step 5 - ⌛ 3 min.

Mix until you have a smooth dough.

You can do this with a spatula again, or simply by hand, which is very quick.

Preheat your oven to 180°C (360°F).

Step 6 - ⌛ 2 min.

Put the dough in a pastry bag lined with a fluted tip.

Step 7 - ⌛ 5 min.

Piping and baking

Pipe the dough onto a sheet of baking paper on a baking sheet in any shape or size you like.

If you have trouble because the dough is too hard, pop the piping bag into the microwave for a few seconds, or hold it between your hands, to soften it.

Step 8 - ⌛ 30 min.

Bake for about 30 minutes, be careful not to overcook them, the shortbread should remain soft.

Step 9 - ⌛ 30 min.

Let cool on a wire rack.

Set aside the baking sheet and the paper.

Step 10 - ⌛ 10 min.

Chocolate topping

Melt in a bain-marie or microwave oven 100 g dark chocolate.

I recommend using a small container with high sides, in this case a simple jam jar, it will be much easier to dip the cookies.

Step 11 - ⌛ 7 min.

Dip the end, or ends, of each cookie into the melted chocolate.

Step 12 - ⌛ 30 min.

Place them on the baking sheet, do this for all the shortbread and then put in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.

Step 13

Your Viennese shortbread is ready.

Remarks

If your shortbread flattens out after baking, as in this photo, it's probably because you used a little too much butter.
sablé trop beurré

Keeping: A few days in a jar or a closed metal box.

Source: Homemade.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	4 g RDI=7 %	50 g RDI=19 %	29 g RDI=40 %	481 kcal RDI=24 %	2,012 kJ RDI=24 %
Per piece	2 g RDI=3 %	19 g RDI=7 %	11 g RDI=15 %	183 kcal RDI=9 %	765 kJ RDI=9 %
Whole recipe	24 g RDI=38 %	286 g RDI=108 %	167 g RDI=228 %	2,740 kcal RDI=137 %	11,470 kJ RDI=137 %