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Chocolate Dipped Shortbread

Kezia Hall
A grain free, delicious shortbread made with almonds and coconut that will disappear off your plate in no time

Ingredients
  

  • Shortbread
  • 200 g Ground Almonds
  • 2 tbsp Linseeds - Ground
  • 4 tbsp Coconut Flour
  • Pinch Sea Salt
  • 3 tbsp Honey
  • 5 drops of Vanilla Essence
  • 125 g Butter - Organic
  • Chocolate Sauce
  • 3 tbsp Coconut Oil
  • 5 tbsp Cocoa Powder
  • 2 tbsp Honey
  • 2 drops of Vanilla Essence

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 170c and line a tray with greaseproof paper.
  • Mix the coconut flour, salt, ground almonds and linseeds in a bowl.
  • Cut the butter into chunks and add to flours, also add the honey and vanilla essence.
  • Rub the mixture together with your fingers or mix well until all the butter and honey is evenly distributed. Make sure there are no clumps of butter anywhere in the mixture.
  • The grab small lumps of the very wet dough and roll into balls in your hands and place on greased tray. They can be any size you want but this recipe makes 12 large cookie shaped biscuits.
  • Then using a clean fork push down on the dough balls. Do this twice, both vertically and horizontally.
  • Place in the oven, set a timer and cook for 15-20 mins. Check regularly.
  • Remove from the oven when they are all an even light brown colour.
  • Leave to cool completely before removing from tray.
  • Chocolate Sauce
  • Melt all the ingredient together in a pan and mix thoroughly.
  • Allow to cool. To speed things up place it in the fridge for 10 mins. Check and mix regularly.
  • Once cool the sauce will be thicker. Then you can dip the shortbread into the chocolate mixture or use a spoon to drizzle it over.
  • Place the shortbread in the fridge to set.

Notes

These are best kept in the fridge and are best eaten within a few days.
For a quick time saver you could freeze some of the uncooked dough mixture so you can always cook a batch whenever you want - take the shortbread dough balls out the freezer half an hour before you want to bake them.
Feel free to make smaller ones I always make massive things even when I try not to.
These are more fragile than the traditional shortbread the fridge makes them more sturdy.