10. Chocolate Chip Shortbread

Double digit recipes. Woo!!!!

For recipe 10, I thought I'd just keep it simple. Vanilla shortbread with chocolate chips. Easy as pi. Shortbread is one of those classic biscuits that everyone loves. It's sweet and crumbly and just delicious. When I was growing up, my grandma would always buy a box of Scottish shortbread if I was coming round, even if I was just popping over for lunch. Unfortunately this stopped after I lived with her for a while. It was probably a bit too much to ask for there to be a constant supply of shortbread, but there we go.

Even now shortbread always reminds me of my grandma, and that's part of the reason I enjoy making it. I don't know if we ever actually made shortbread together in and amongst the baking we did when I was a kid, but even so, shortbread will always be linked with my grandma.

Makes roughly 24 biscuits

Ingredients

4oz (115g) butter
2oz (55g) caster sugar
6oz (170g) plain flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
3.5oz (100g) chocolate chips

Method

Preheat your oven to 180C.
Cream together the butter and sugar until well combined.
Add in the flour, then chocolate chips and vanilla extract. This should form a dough, but may be a bit short and crumbly. If this happens and it is TOO crumbly to deal with, add a splash of milk to help combine the ingredients.
Roll out the dough to about 1cm thick and use a 2" diameter cutter to stamp out your biscuits.
Transfer your rounds to a lined baking tray and bake for 15-20 minutes until just golden.