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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 4^th 2023

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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

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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.

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

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Mix with a wooden spatula until smooth.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

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

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).

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.

Let cool on a wire rack.

Set aside the baking sheet and the paper.

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.
sablé trop beurré

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 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Gluten, Egg

How much will it cost?

For 15 pieces : 2.56 €
Per piece : 0.17 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sweet pastry, Tea and white chocolate biscuits, Pistachio "Financiers", Kouign-amann, Coconut sweetcrust pastry, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Fillet of pollack cooked in two stages, Chocolate muffins, Potato purée , Salmon chard rolls, Melting Epoisses on toast , ... All
	Dark chocolate: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate madeleines, Mousse with two chocolates, Paris flan filling, Chocolate mousse, Chocolate mug cake, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Coconut "croute à thé", Rich hazelnut buttercream, Clementine Chantilly, Gâteau Nantais, Arlesian Biscuits, ... All

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