Shortbread Matches

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 40 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   Ingredients

2. STEP 2

   

   Preheat the oven to 190C. Beat butter at room temperature until fluffy.

3. STEP 3

   

   Add powdered sugar and vanilla tincture, or vanilla sugar

4. STEP 4

   

   Beat until creamy

5. STEP 5

   

   Sift the flour with baking powder and starch, add it into the butter mixture in small portions, and knead into a homogeneous dough. If the dough turns out to be too dense, add 1 or 2 tablespoons of milk (I needed 2 tablespoons), this dough will be much easier to squeeze through the bag

6. STEP 6

   

   Place the finished dough into a pastry bag fitted with a star tip. Squeeze cookies onto the prepared baking sheet in the form of long strips, about 10 cm in length.

7. STEP 7

   

   Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes until golden brown. We take out the cookies and let them cool, be careful, warm cookies are very fragile and very easy to break.

8. STEP 8

   

   While the cookies are cooling, break the chocolate bar into small pieces and melt in a water bath or in the microwave

9. STEP 9

   

   If you melt it in the microwave, be careful not to overheat the chocolate, because then it will simply become grainy and will never turn into a smooth, beautiful mass.

10. STEP 10

    

    Dip one side of the cooled cookies into slightly cooled melted chocolate. Let the excess chocolate drip off and place on parchment. Leave until the chocolate hardens completely. As soon as the chocolate hardens, our cookies are ready. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Magnago

22.09.2023

5

Irish, do you do it yourself in the microwave, or in a water bath? I mean, it would be interesting to know what mode is used for how long and what weight is done in the microwave, I’ve never tried it before. Any experienced ones?

Irisha

22.09.2023

4.5

Natasha, I’m more used to a water bath :) I bring the water to a boil in a saucepan and turn it off, put a bowl of chocolate on top, the main bottom of the bowl should not reach the water and melt it, stirring from time to time. And if you heat in the microwave, then take it out and stir every 15 seconds, and as soon as the main mass melts, then just stir without heating or heat for 5 seconds, I hope I explained it properly :)

Magnago

22.09.2023

4.8

Yeah, yeah, thanks! Terribly funny cookies, they really look like matches. Listen, maybe it’s better not to squeeze them out through such a star-shaped hole, but smoother ones, I haven’t tried, what’s better?

Irisha

22.09.2023

5

I haven’t tried it with another attachment, but I think it’s possible) and you can also make the dough thicker so that you can roll it out and cut sticks with a knife)) but then you need to add more powdered sugar to the dough, and cool it in the refrigerator before rolling)

Magnago

22.09.2023

4.9

In! Exactly! Irisha, you are not only a photo expert, you are also a test expert!!!

Shura

22.09.2023

4.8

Magnago, no matter how many times I tried melting chocolate in the microwave, every time it burned to the bottom, I don’t like this method, but in a water bath the waves don’t irradiate the chocolate, and you can control the melting temperature yourself. But I think Irisha squeezed out the star shape to give our matches the shape of volume, because the matches are shaped like a bar, square in cross section, and if you squeeze it out with an even nozzle, you won’t be able to see the ribs; with this nozzle, the resemblance to a bar is more visible. The cookies are very beautiful. , these little sticks are like matches, with chocolate heads, a variety of shapes, something new, and remember, there were colored matches (multi-colored heads), so I thought that we could use white chocolate, milk chocolate, and black chocolate. Well, everyone seems to have agreed, who else will join?

Irisha

22.09.2023

4.9

Shura about multi-colored matches is a great idea, I think if you take white chocolate instead of dark chocolate, then after chocolate each cookie can be turned into colored coconut flakes - green, pink) it should also turn out not bad :)