Dark Chocolate Chip and Cranberry Shortbread
07 February 2013
18 comments
Is there any better way to say I love you that with some homemade cookies? or technically in this case biscuits (I am British after all!)
I have extremely mixed feeling about Valentines Day, on one hand it is incredibly commercialised, exceedingly tacky and as you should show your partner you appreciate them more than one day a year, it’s almost irrelevant.
Miss it on the other hand and you will be confronted by wails of ‘why don’t you love me?!?’ (a girl can’t be expected to be rational all the time can she?).
After a lot of mixed messages and V-Day disasters in previous relationships, my wonderful (Valentines neutral) boyfriend and I came to a compromise. He buys me flowers and chocolates, I buy him steak. We turn our phones/ipad/computer off, cook a meal together and watch a movie.
It’s simple, there’s no stress and it doesn’t matter if it’s a weeknight.
I wanted to make a little Valentines treat for my (quite picky) boyfriend. Biscuits to accompany his tea habit (5+ giant cups a day!!) seemed like the perfect choice.
Shortbread is one of the easiest biscuits you can make. It only has 3 ingredients (these have 2 more in the form of chocolate chips and dried cranberries) made from 1 part sugar, 2 parts butter and 3 parts flour.
This Scottish treat has roots as far back as the 12th Century, traditionally shaped into fingers or ‘ladies petticoats’, I couldn’t help but break out this heart shaped cutter – maybe I do like Valentines Day more than I think!
Dark Chocolate Chip and Dried Cranberry Shortbread Hearts
Makes 12 medium biscuits
60g sugar
120g butter
180g plain flour
50g dark chocolate chips
25g dried cranberries
Preheat the oven to 190
Cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
Add the flour and beat until combined.
Stir in the chocolate chips and cranberries
Turn out onto a floured work surface and bring together into a ball.
Gently roll out to about 5mm thick, I found it was easier to pat the dough flat before rolling it.
Cut the dough into little hearts or into the traditional strips.
Bake on the middle shelf of the oven for 15-20 minutes.
Remove from oven when the edges are golden brown.
Leave to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes then move to a wire rack until fully cooled.
Enjoy!!
I think we’ll be having a very similar steak-based valentine’s day too and I may just whip up a batch of shortbread for us to nibble on after dinner!
Sometimes it’s nice just to indulge in some quiet time!
friend showed me your blog on her com and so glad she did
love your little graphics and gif 
absolutely adorable blog and the shortbread sounds like a great one for valentine’s too x
Thank you! I’m going to pop over to your site now!
That’s a lot of tea! I love these cookies. I’m doing a charity bake sale on Valentines day and I’m thinking that these would be a perfect addition!
I’m almost as bad! it’s pretty much my lifesource!
These looks beautiful! Perfect pairing for our hot chocolate
Ooooh! that sounds delicious!
What a great Valentine treat. There is nothing like a homemade goodie to take the sting of commercialization away! Thank you for sharing. What a sweet way to end my weekend. I hope you have a great start to your week!
you must be excited! your last valentines just the two of you!
Love the gif! and the heart shaped cookies. I asked my husband what he wanted for valentines and told him he wasn’t allowed to say cookies…I like to make him extravagant desserts for special occasions but then he reminded me it should be his choice so cookies it will be I guess!
Thanks Gem! my boyfriends idea of an extravagant dessert is a crumble! Men eh?!
What a delicious way to enjoy this shortbread my friend
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thanks CCU I really liked the chocolate chips!
I LOVE that these go over the edge of the cup! Great biscuits!
I absolutely fell in love with that cutter it’s so sweet!
So pretty and I like how you cut it so that it can fit on the edge of a cup! x
it was actually already built into the cutter! it’s what originally attracted me to it!
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