Recipe: Delicious Hazelnut Shortbread

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Hazelnut Shortbread. These Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies are the perfect cookie to have with a cup of tea or coffee. They are buttery rich with the flavor of toasted hazelnuts, and have a wonderfully crisp and crumbly texture. Get the recipe for Hazelnut Shortbread.

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Hazelnut flour does something magical to dough.

This recipe uses freshly ground, oven-roasted hazelnuts that yield a unique flavor and texture.

You can have Hazelnut Shortbread using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Hazelnut Shortbread

1. It’s 20 of Hazelnuts (raw, with the shell on).

2. You need 130 grams of Cake flour (sifted).

3. Prepare 60 grams of Unsalted butter (bring to room temperature).

4. You need 30 grams of Powdered sugar (sifted).

5. Prepare 1 pinch of Salt.

6. It’s 1 tsp of Milk.

7. It’s 1 dash of Vanilla extract.

8. Prepare of Chocolate dip.

9. It’s 70 grams of ●Semi-sweet chocolate.

10. It’s 1 tbsp of ●Milk.

11. It’s 1 dash of ●Honey.

Wrap hot hazelnuts in clean cloth towel.

With hands, roll hazelnuts back and forth to remove skins.

Cool shortbread wedges completely on wire racks.

Simple and super quick to make, these shortbread will satisfy even the most hard-core chocoholic!

Hazelnut Shortbread instructions

1. This time, I used fresh hazelnuts with the shells intact..

2. Spread the hazelnuts out on a baking sheet and roast in the oven at 160℃(320F) for about 10~15 minutes..

3. Once the hazelnuts have cooled, use pliers, etc. to remove the shells. (Its okay if a bit of the brown shell remains. It'll make it more flavorful.).

4. Chop the nuts up in a blender or food processor until powdery..

5. Make the shortbread dough. Cream the butter in a bowl with a wooden spatula..

6. Mix in the powdered sugar in 2~3 parts, add the vanilla extract, and cream some more..

7. Mix in half of the cake flour and the salt, add the milk, and mix until smooth..

8. Add the remaining cake flour and the hazelnuts and mix using cutting motions. (Its okay if it remains a little powdery.).

9. Put the dough into a resealable bag and close while pressing the excess air out. Press down to a 5~6 mm thickness and let chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour..

10. Once chilled, cut the dough into 6 x 1.5 cm rectangles and bake at 120℃ (250F) on your ovens top rack for 1 hour. Let cool..

11. Make the chocolate dip. Combine the ● ingredients in a heatproof dish and heat in the microwave at low power for 1 minute, mixing occasionally..

12. Dip the shortbread in the chocolate dip and let dry on top of plastic wrap to finish..

These quick and easy Chocolate-Dipped Hazelnut Shortbread are so addicting!

The nutty, delicate shortbread combine perfectly with a bit of dark chocolate.

These hazelnut shortbread cookies get a boost of flavor with the help of hazelnut oil.

I purchased some marvelous hazelnut oil from an international grocery store in Seattle a week ago.

Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies make a delicious and hearty cookie.