Cacao Nib Shortbread

Name: Thermomix recipe: Cacao Nib Shortbread
Ingredients: 80 Grams golden caster sugar; 40 Grams white rice; Pinches pink salt flakes pink salt flakes; 1 Tablespoon vanilla bean paste vanilla bean paste; 250 Gram cold butter cubed; 300 Grams plain flour; 1 egg yolk; 45 Grams cacao powder cacao nibs, cacao crackle if you need a bit more sweetness

Makes 12-18 (depending on size of stamp) Rated: Print

Buttery bites of flaky shortbread, with just a hint of chocolate in a little nutty touch here and there. Easy and so more-ish. Perfect for gifting.

I admit that I am not the queen of baking, but when I get it right...I get it right. I have a few shortbread recipes on here, and this is a bit of a mixture across a few of them, with the addition of the very delicious cacao nibs. No kitchen is complete without them frankly. Like chocolate, (well they are chocolate) but guilt free and completely yummo.

If you have a cookie press, then that is how you get them to look so cute. There was great discussion on social media when I posted the pics of these about where to get a cookie press. Needless to say the big supermarkets apparently stock them...so go get it and press on.

Enjoy! Home-made all the way baby.

Need

80 Grams golden caster sugar
40 Grams white rice
Pinches pink salt flakes pink salt flakes BUY
1 Tablespoon vanilla bean paste vanilla bean paste BUY
250 Gram cold butter cubed BUY
300 Grams plain flour
1 egg yolk
45 Grams cacao powder cacao nibs, cacao crackle if you need a bit more sweetness BUY

Do

1: Preheat oven to 160°C and line two baking trays with paper.
2: Place sugar, rice and salt into Thermomix bowl and mill 10 sec/speed 10. Open lid slowly as there is a lot of residual dust.
3: Add vanilla and butter and chop 6 sec/speed 6.
4: Add flour and egg yolk and blend 6 sec/speed 6.
5: Add cacao nibs and blend 3 sec/speed 6.
6: Tip mixture out onto a floured mat and roll into a sausage shape
7: Chill for 10 minutes. Cut into rounds and either use a cookie press for a design or just bake as discs, 14 minutes.
8: Cool before storing in airtight containers until use.

Store in airtight container in the fridge for freshness. (Or just eat immediately...you know which camp you’re in already...am I right?)

Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.

Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!