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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 ¼ cup butter
2 1 tablespoon icing sugar
3 ½ teaspoon Vanilla sugar
4 ½ cup flour
5 1 pinch fine (or table) salt
6 1 tablespoon egg white
7 cup + 3 tablespoons 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 ¼ cup 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 1 tablespoon icing sugar over butter, then add ½ teaspoon Vanilla sugar.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Mix with a wooden spatula until smooth.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Add ½ cup flour, 1 pinch fine (or table) salt and 1 tablespoon 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 cup + 3 tablespoons 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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	Dark chocolate: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Hot chocolate, Chocolate tart, Nanou's chocolate cake, Chocolate muffins, Chocolate Chantilly , ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Coconut paste, Coconut "croute à thé", Amiens macaroons, Toasted almond cake, Stuffed prunes, ... All