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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 5 pieces, you will need:

1 1.9 oz butter
2 0.6 oz icing sugar
3 0.1 oz Vanilla sugar
4 0 kg 4 g flour
5 1 pinch fine (or table) salt
6 0.4 oz egg white
7 1.5 oz dark chocolate

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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 1.9 oz 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 0.6 oz icing sugar over butter, then add 0.1 oz Vanilla sugar.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Mix with a wooden spatula until smooth.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Add 0 kg 4 g flour, 1 pinch fine (or table) salt and 0.4 oz 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 1.5 oz 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
908 Kcal or 3,802 Kj	8 gr	107 gr	55 gr
45 %	3 %	10 %	8 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
480 Kcal or 2,010 Kj	4 gr	57 gr	29 gr
24 %	2 %	5 %	4 %

Per piece
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
182 Kcal or 762 Kj	2 gr	21 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 5 pieces : 0.84 €
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: Gâteau Basque , Oatmeal and apple cookies, Plum and hazelnut crumble, Fruit crumble, Grandma Solange's biscuits, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Hamburger buns, Pear and chocolate Paris puddings, Smoked eggs, How to prevent butter burning during cooking, Langoustine gratin, ... All
	Dark chocolate: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Leopard cake, Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes, Chocolate muffins, Little chocolate and hazelnut fondants, Chocolate sauce, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Diamond biscuits, Coconut paste, Pistachio "Financiers", Walnut paste, Jam doughnuts, ... All

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