Crunchy Chocolate Shortbread Cookies. Prick each rectangle a few times lightly with a fork. Let cool before lifting out of the pan. My favorite shortbread cookie recipe meets comforting peanut butter and chocolate meets Alison Roman's viral (and super fun) sliced cookie method.

Martin Ramin/The Wall Street Journal, Food Styling by Heather Meldrom, Prop Styling by Stephanie Hanes. If the cookies break or fall apart, just press them back together — the dough is very forgiving. Lower speed to the lowest setting and add in the flour and cocoa powder slowly until just combined. You can cook Crunchy Chocolate Shortbread Cookies using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Crunchy Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

It's 100 grams of ♢Cake flour.
You need 15 grams of ♢Unsweetened cocoa powder.
You need 50 grams of ♢ Almond powder.
It's 1 of Egg yolk (large).
It's 1 dash of Salt.
Prepare 40 grams of Sugar.
It's 70 grams of Unsalted margarine or unsalted butter.
It's 1 of Powdered sugar (for decorating, optional).

Slowly add in the flour mixture and mix until combined. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. All About Dark Chocolate Shortbread These cookies have a crunchy but melt in your mouth texture. As with all shortbread, they are dry all the way through and the kind of cookie you want to eat with a cup of tea or coffee.

Crunchy Chocolate Shortbread Cookies instructions

Sift together all the ♢ ingredients..
Cream the butter, then add the sugar and mix..
Once combined, add the egg yolk and salt and mix..
Add the Step 1 dry ingredients to the butter mix all at once, and gently fold in with a rubber spatula. Do not knead or over-mix. Once the dough has come together like in the picture, form it into a single ball by pressing it together with your hands..
Once formed into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap and leave to rest in the fridge for about 1 hour. Set the oven to 180°C..
Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough to a 3-5mm thickness. As this dough is quite soft, sandwiching it between two sheets of cling film makes the rolling process easier..
Cut out cookies in whatever shapes you like..
If the cookies are difficult to lift up, you can make things easier by sticking your finger underneath the plastic wrap, and lifting the cookie up with your finger..
Wrap up the remaining dough in plastic wrap, and repeat Steps 6-8..
Place the cookies in the preheated oven set to 180°C, and bake for 10-12 minutes..
Once they have finished baking, cool the cookies on a cooling rack. These cookies are soft when they come out of the oven, so be careful when transferring them..
Once the cookies have cooled, sprinkle with icing sugar, and they're done..

They're also buttery making them a truly luxurious treat. Making Chocolate Shortbread Cookies Chocolate shortbread involves replacing some of the flour in traditional butter shortbread with cocoa powder. Cocoa powder has a different chemical composition than flour. You may not realize how much flavor variety there is in cocoa powders. Let the cookies cool on the pan for about five minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.