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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 30 pieces, you will need:

1 330 ml butter
2 100 ml icing sugar
3 20 ml Vanilla sugar
4 686.4 ml flour
5 4 pinches fine (or table) salt
6 60 ml egg white
7 250 ml dark chocolate

Change these quantities to make: 5 pieces 15 pieces 30 pieces 45 pieces

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How long will 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 330 ml 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 100 ml icing sugar over butter, then add 20 ml Vanilla sugar.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Mix with a wooden spatula until smooth.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Add 686.4 ml flour, 4 pinches fine (or table) salt and 60 ml 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 250 ml 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
5,479 Kcal or 22,939 Kj	49 gr	652 gr	333 gr
274 %	19 %	62 %	50 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
481 Kcal or 2,014 Kj	4 gr	57 gr	29 gr
24 %	2 %	5 %	4 %

Per piece
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
183 Kcal or 766 Kj	2 gr	22 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 30 pieces : 5.13 €
Per piece : 0.17 €

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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: Rabbit civet, Hazelnut and orange cake, Craquelin (sweet cracker dough), Caramelized apple and walnut cake, Cornmeal baps for Anne, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Breton style shellfish and vegetable soup, Two-stage beef chuck , Croque-monsieur gourmand, Warm salad of potatoes and purple artichokes, Caramelized pear custard tart, ... All
	Dark chocolate: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse, Hot chocolate, Leopard cake, How to make chocolate chips, Flaky brownie brioche, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Toasted almond cake, Brioche royale, Linzer torte, Brioche slices with almond cream, Coconut paste, ... All

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