Chocolate Shortbread Base

Name: Thermomix recipe: Chocolate Shortbread Base
Prep time: 2 min
Cook time: 10 min
Ingredients: 50 Grams raw caster sugar; 1 Pinch pink salt flakes; 100 Grams butter cold, cubed; 140 Grams bakers or strong flour; 30 Grams cocoa powder; 1 Teaspoon vanilla bean paste; 10 Grams cacao nibs

1 cheesecake base or 24 cookies Prep Time 2 minutes Cook Time 10 minutes Rated: Print

When you need a chocolate shortbread base for just about anything (think cheesecake, tart etc) then this is your go to! Also excellent as cookies!

Sunday morning. No dessert organised. Have cream cheese, but no biscuits to make a quick cheesecake base. SO...this happened. And I have to say much nicer than crushed commercially produced bikkies!

I made them again for the pic...the base was that nice. Pretty as a pic! Perfect for Salted Caramel Chocolate Tart, Chocolate Sea Salt Tart or Naughty Naughty Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheesecake to mention but a few ideas. Cook Once, Eat Twice!

Need

50 Grams raw caster sugar BUY
1 Pinch pink salt flakes BUY
100 Grams butter cold, cubed BUY
140 Grams bakers or strong flour
30 Grams cocoa powder BUY
1 Teaspoon vanilla bean paste BUY
10 Grams cacao nibs BUY

Do

1: Preheat oven to 180°C and line the base of the tin(s) you will use to bake these. If you are making shortbread rather than a base for a cheesecake, simply line a baking sheet.
2: Place sugar and salt into the Thermomix bowl and mill 5 sec/speed 10.
3: Add butter, flour, cocoa and vanilla and blend 15 sec/speed 6.
4: Add cocoa nibs and mix 5 sec/speed 5.
5: Tip out onto floured mat and bring together with your hands. Roll and cut into shapes or line your baking tins accordingly.
6: Bake around 10-15 minutes until fragrant.

Use as a cheesecake base.

Cut into shapes and bake as biscuits or cookies. Drizzle with melted chocolate and top with chopped toasted nuts.

Served with

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!