Recipe - Chocolate Chocolate Chip Shortbread Sticks

1 One half cup Unbleached allpurpose flour
One half cup Unsweetened dutch process
cocoa powder
One half teaspoon Baking powder
One fourth teaspoon Salt
One half pound Soft unsalted butter
1 cup Powdered sugar
1 cup Miniature semisweet
chocolate chips
4 ounce White chocolate; chopped

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees and position 2 oven racks in the middle and
upper third of the oven. Line 2 baking sheets with heavy aluminum foil.

Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt together. Set aside. Put the
butter in the bowl of an electric mixer and mix on low speed for 15
seconds. Add the powdered sugar. Increase the speed to medium and beat
until the mixture is smooth, about 1 minute. Decrease the speed to low and
add the flour mixture. Mix until the flour mixture is blended completely
into the dough and the dough holds together, about 2 minutes. Stop the
mixer and scrape the bowl during this time. Mix in the chocolate chips.
Divide the dough in half and place 1 piece of dough on waxed paper. Press
the dough into a rectangle measuring 7 by 5inches and about 1/2inch
thick. Use a large sharp knife to cut 8 strips 7inches long by about
5/8inch wide. Cut each strip into 3 cookies about 2 1/4inches long. Using
a wide spatula to move the cookies, place the cookies 1inch apart on the
prepared baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough.

Bake 25 minutes. The tops of the cookies change from shiny to dull. Cool
the shortbread on the baking sheets for 10 minutes. Transfer the cookies to
2 wire racks to cool completely.

While the cookies cool, melt the white chocolate. Preheat the oven to 175
degrees. Place the white chocolate in a small nonreactive container. Melt
the white chocolate in the oven, about 8 minutes. Remove the white
chocolate from the oven as soon as it is melted and stir until smooth. Hold
a cookie over the white chocolate and spoon white chocolate over 1 end of
the cookie, covering about 1/2inch of the cookie. Drag the bottom of the
cookie over the top of a bowl to remove any excess chocolate. Let the
cookies sit on the rack until the white chocolate is firm. To firm the
white chocolate quickly, refrigerate or freeze the cookies.

Yield: 48 sticks

Freezing instructions: Place 2 cookies side by side and wrap in plastic
wrap. Put the wrapped cookies in a metal or plastic freezer container and
cover tightly. Freeze up to 3 months. To defrost, remove as many cookies
from the freezer as needed and defrost the wrapped cookies at room
temperature. Serve within 3 days.

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL9003

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #905 by "Angele and Jon Freeman"
jfreeman@comteck.com on Nov 12, 1997