Viennese Shortbread
The Viennese shortbread, or "Spritz", are small shortbread cakes, with a light vanilla taste and covered with chocolate.
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Last modified on: June 4th 2023
Keywords for this recipe: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
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Resting | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 min. | 2 hours | 30 min. | 3 hours 5 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 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.
Stage 2 - 2 min.
Stage 3 - 3 min.
Mix with a wooden spatula until smooth.
Stage 4 - 3 min.
Stage 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).
You can do this with a spatula again, or simply by hand, which is very quick.
Preheat your oven to 180°C (360°F).
Stage 6 - 2 min.
Put the dough in a pastry bag lined with a fluted tip.
Stage 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.
Stage 8 - 30 min.
Bake for about 30 minutes, be careful not to overcook them, the shortbread should remain soft.
Stage 9 - 30 min.
Stage 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.
Stage 11 - 7 min.
Dip the end, or ends, of each cookie into the melted chocolate.
Stage 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.
Stage 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.
Keeping
A few days in a jar or a closed metal box.
Source
Home made.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 2,708 Kcal or 11,338 Kj | 24 gr | 286 gr | 167 gr |
| 135 % | 9 % | 27 % | 25 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 475 Kcal or 1,989 Kj | 4 gr | 50 gr | 29 gr |
| 24 % | 2 % | 5 % | 4 % |
| Per piece | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 181 Kcal or 758 Kj | 2 gr | 19 gr | 11 gr |
| 9 % | 1 % | 2 % | 2 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 15 pieces : 2.56 €
- Per piece : 0.17 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cod loin with saffron, Apple and almond cake, Gâteau Nantais, Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, Plain cake, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Poppy seed and lemon cake, Toffee apple upside-down cake, "Moelleux" cake batter, Scrambled eggs with langoustines and asparagus tips., Hazelnut and orange cake, ... All |
 | Dark chocolate: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate eclairs, Chocolate almond cookies, Chocolate mendiants, Bounty-style tart for Alison, Paris flan filling, ... All |
 | Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Mirlitons, Cigarettes Russes (Piroulines), Millefeuille, Mini lemon millefeuilles, Amaretti, ... All |
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