Chocolate Button Shortbread Cookies – Jane’s Patisserie

A deliciously gentle and butter chocolate button shortbread cookie that’s tremendous simple to make and even simpler to eat 

Easy six ingredient chocolate button studded shortbread cookies which are a scrumptious dupe of the Marks & Spencers viral bake. 

Store purchased cookies vs home made 

I’ll at all times be on the facet of the argument that I believe each piece of meals, whether or not home made or not, has a spot and exists for a purpose. I like to make home made variations of biscuits corresponding to my home made hobnobs, or my home made bourbon biscuits for instance – however for numerous causes, I might nonetheless simply purchase the store purchased variations and that’s completely effective. 

When I’m speaking about these scrumptious chocolate button shortbread cookies, it’s extra compared to an in-store bakery… and on this specific occasion, Marks & Spencers. They’re famend for making completely epic treats of their in-store bakeries, and I’ve had countless requests for a home made model of numerous treats – however notably these chocolate button shortbreads. 

Shortbread biscuits

I’ve numerous totally different shortbread variations on my weblog, whether or not it’s within the type of a millionaires shortbread sort bake so extra of a traybake, or my shortbread coronary heart biscuits. I like shortbread, particularly in it’s simplicity. More often than not, it’s a easy combination of a butter, a flour, and a sugar and it’s candy and light-weight but additionally, pleasant. 

There are a couple of other ways to make shortbread, although it’s fairly easy. I have a tendency to make use of the tactic of blending the butter and sugar collectively first, after which including within the flour. You need to use a stand mixer for one thing like this, or a bowl and a spoon – it simply takes a little bit of arm energy. You may then knead the combination collectively barely with the heat of your palms to deliver the dough collectively. 

You can too add the butter, chilly and cubed up, into a big bowl with the sugar and flour, and break the combination up collectively right into a breadcrumb like texture, after which knead once more right into a dough. Or, you possibly can add the substances to a meals processor, and blitz it till mixed (like you are able to do with a shortcrust pastry). I additionally add slightly vanilla to the dough for further sweetness, however that is elective. 

What flour do I exploit?!

As a result of I’m purposely making an attempt to duplicate a unique bake, this recipe is barely totally different. After I appeared on the substances of the M&S chocolate button shortbread, it clearly reads as much more substances as they should listing every part, however there was the notice of rice flour within the substances listing. 

On the subject of shortbread, including cornflour or rice flour is kind of widespread, and it brings a unique component to the bake in a texture means. They’re interchangeable, with ever so slight variations, however I have a tendency to make use of cornflour because it’s what I’ve available in my cabinets. They each have good properties for a thickening agent in recipes as they’re a really starchy substance. 

If you wish to use rice flour, as a substitute of cornflour, it offers a barely extra crunchy texture to the bake, in comparison with the gentle buttery nature of the cornflour being added in. In fact, you don’t have to make use of both, and you may up the plain flour to 300g – nevertheless it gained’t be the identical because the bakery ones. 

Chocolate

Purposely, once more, as a result of I’m making an attempt to easily recreate a biscuit that you could purchase, I used the same chocolate. I do like to eat chocolate buttons to be honest, particularly when they’re chilly and crunchy out of the fridge (are you a fridge chilly chocolate eater, or a cabinet chocolate eater?!) and so they work rather well in a bake like this. 

You may swap the chocolate buttons to grocery store or bakery chocolate chips, or a chocolate bar that you’ve chopped up – you don’t particularly have to make use of the identical factor. Nonetheless, as you will need to be capable to minimize by the chocolate with a cookie cutter/knife, the thinner the bits of chocolate, the higher, only for ease. 

Baking the biscuits

As soon as I’ve made the dough for my bake, I evenly flour the work floor in order that not one of the dough will stick onto it – this bit is at all times the worst, once you completely make a dough and it’s ruined by glueing itself to your floor and you must kind it out. 

I used a set of metallic cookie cutters to make my bake, and I used the 7.5cm cutter particularly to get the same measurement to the M&S biscuits. You may make these smaller in fact, they only might take barely much less time to bake. 

I place them onto a lined tray, and chill the dough for a minimum of half-hour within the fridge in order that the butter has time to agency up once more in addition to the biscuits, and preheat my oven on the identical time. You sprinkle on an additional little little bit of caster sugar earlier than baking within the oven till they’re golden and excellent. I then go away them to chill absolutely on the tray, and devour in fact. 

Ideas & Tips 

• I used these metallic cookie cutters for my bake 
• I make 12-13 cookies utilizing the 7.5cm cutter, you may make roughly with totally different sized and formed cutters so regulate the biscuits while baking
• You need to use golden caster sugar as a substitute of white caster sugar
• You may substitute the cornflour for rice flour 
• You need to use any flavour chocolate button/chip 
• These will final 5-7 days as soon as baked, or freeze for 3+ months 

• 200 g unsalted butter (block butter)
• 100 g caster sugar (plus further for sprinkling)
• 225 g plain flour (plus further for dusting)
• 75 g cornflour (or rice flour – see notes)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 150-300 g chocolate buttons (or chips/chopped chocolate)

• Add the butter and sugar to a bowl and cream collectively (see notes about rubbing substances collectively as a substitute)

• Add the plain flour, cornflour, and vanilla and beat to a dough. Typically it may be barely crumbly, so that you simply have to knead it together with your palms to deliver it collectively

• Tip the dough onto a evenly floured floor and roll out to 1-1.5cm in depth

• Reduce cookies out utilizing a 7.5cm cutter, and place onto lined trays. I do 6 per tray as they’re fairly massive

• Chill the minimize cookies within the fridge for half-hour, and preheat the oven to 180ºc/160ºc fan

• Sprinkle over some further sugar after which bake the cookies within the oven for 20-25 minutes, or till golden

• Depart to chill on the trays, and luxuriate in!

• I used these metallic cookie cutters for my bake 
• I make 12-13 cookies utilizing the 7.5cm cutter, you may make roughly with totally different sized and formed cutters so regulate the biscuits while baking
• You need to use golden caster sugar as a substitute of white caster sugar
• You may substitute the cornflour for rice flour 
• You need to use any flavour chocolate button/chip 
• These will final 5-7 days as soon as baked, or freeze for 3+ months 

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