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Checkerboard biscuits

These biscuits are half and half chocolate and almond in a checkerboard pattern, both in colour and flavour.

142 K 4.7/5 (23 reviews)

4 hours 25 min. difficulté

Easy

2.10 €

60 shortbreads biscuits

6 Ingredients

Last modified on: March 8^th 2012

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For 60 shortbreads biscuits, you will need:

1 1 litre 170 ml flour
2 387 mls butter
3 375 mls caster sugar
4 3 eggs
5 45 mls powdered cocoa
6 204.3 mls ground almonds

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10 shortbreads biscuits 20 shortbreads biscuits 40 shortbreads biscuits 60 shortbreads biscuits

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Times for this recipe

Preparation: 1 hour 25 min.

Resting: 2 hours 45 min.

Cooking: 15 min.

All in all: 4 hours 25 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Put 1 litre 170 ml flour, 387 mls butter, 375 mls caster sugar and 3 eggs into a food-processor bowl. Knead until evenly mixed.

Stage 2 - 2 min.

Take out half the dough and set aside. Add 204.3 mls ground almonds to the remaining dough and knead for a further 1 or 2 minutes until evenly mixed.

Gather the almond dough into a flattened cake, wrap in stretch plastic film and refrigerate for 2 hours (or overnight).

Stage 3 - 2 min.

Put the other half of the dough back in the bowl, add 45 mls powdered cocoa and knead for a further 1 or 2 minutes until evenly mixed.

Stage 4 - 2 hours

Gather the chocolate dough into a flattened cake, wrap in stretch plastic film and refrigerate for 2 hours (or overnight).

Stage 5 - 5 min.

After this time, roll out the chocolate dough into a long rectangle about 1 cm (0.4 inch) thick.

It is best to use guide rules to help you do this (I'm using 2 iron bars here).

Stage 6 - 25 min.

Then cut the dough lengthways into long strips 1cm wide.

Do the same with the almond dough.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Use a deep cake tin or mould and lay a first layer in the bottom, alternating stripes of chocolate and almond.

Stage 8 - 30 min.

Moisten the top of this layer with a brush dipped in water.

Stage 9 - 45 min.

Arrange a second layer of alternate stripes, but the other way round. So, if the first layer began with a chocolate stripe, the second layer should begin with an almond one.

Continue alternating the strips in layers like this until you have used them all, moistening between the layers.

Put in the freezer for 45 minutes to firm up the dough a little and make it easier to cut.

Preheat the oven to 200°C (390°F).

Stage 10 - 5 min.

After this time, remove the block of dough from the mould and cut into slices about 1cm thick.

Stage 11

Place the slices on a baking sheet.

Stage 12 - 15 min.

Bake for around 15 minutes 200°C (390°F), but do not let the almond part brown.

Remarks

As always with shortbread-style biscuits, it is important not to overcook them. They should still be slightly yielding and not completely hard and dry.

You can vary this recipe however you wish, using flavours other than chocolate and almonds, so use your imagination.

Keeping: A few days in an airtight tin.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	110 RDI=40 %	970 RDI=90 %	400 RDI=60 %	7,900 RDI=400 %	33,070 RDI: 400 %
Per 100 g	6 RDI=2 %	50 RDI=5 %	20 RDI=3 %	440 RDI=20 %	1,850 RDI: 20 %
Per shortbread biscuits	1 RDI=1 %	20 RDI=2 %	6 RDI=1 %	130 RDI=7 %	550 RDI: 7 %

The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man

Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, Milk, egg, Nuts

How much will it cost?

For 60 shortbreads biscuits : 6.35 €
Per shortbread biscuits : 0.15 €

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