Salted Dark Chocolate Dipped Toffee Shortbread
Classic shortbread cookies recipe upgraded with toffee pieces and dipped in dark chocolate with a sprinkling of flaky sea salt.
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1/8 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 cup chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2" pieces
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup toffee (SKOR) pieces
- 6 oz. dark chocolate (at least 60% cocoa), broken or cut into 1" pieces
- 1 tsp flaky sea salt to sprinkle on chocolate optional
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350° F.
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Place flour, brown sugar, cornstarch, and salt in a food processor and blend briefly to combine. Place butter pieces and vanilla in the food processor and pulse until mixture resembles a fine meal. Add toffee pieces and briefly pulse until mixed through.
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Transfer the dough to a large piece of wax paper and top with another sheet of wax paper. The dough at this point is extremely crumbly. Fold the dough over onto itself 2-3 times in the wax paper so that the butter melts a bit and brings the dough together. Roll dough out until 1/4" thick*.
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Using a 2" circular cookie cutter (or the shape of your choice) cut out as many cookies as possible. Transfer cookies to a baking sheet (lined with non-stick paper, but ungreased), spacing about 1". Gather scraps together, preroll and cut out more cookies. Repeat until dough has been used up.
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Bake cookies until just starting to colour, about 8-15 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Once cookies are completely cooled, melt chocolate pieces in short bursts (20-30 seconds) in the microwave. Dip cooled cookies part way into the melted chocolate. Place on a wire rack and lightly sprinkle with flaky sea salt.
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Cookies will keep for up to 5 days in an airtight container.
Recipe Notes
* I rolled the dough out, cut out cookies from the middle, less crumbly section and then rolled the rest back together to form the dough properly. I do this 3-5 times depending on how well the cookie dough comes together.