Simple shortbread cookie

The good thing about shortbread dough is that you can make cookies of any shape from it. We chose tea bags. Show your imagination!

Ingredients

• 160 g flour
• 125 g butter at room temperature
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 30 g chocolate
• decorative topping (optional)

Directions

1. Whisk butter and sugar with an electric mixer until lightly creamy. Add egg and vanilla extract and mix well. Sift flour and salt into the butter mixture and quickly knead the dough.
2. Remove the dough from the bowl and knead lightly on a floured surface. Roll into a ball and flatten into a disc, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
3. Preheat oven to 175 ° C and line two baking sheets with baking paper.
4. Roll out the dough on a work surface into a layer 5-6 mm thick and cut out the cookies using molds. Spread the cookies on baking sheets and refrigerate for 10 minutes before baking.
5. Bake the cookies for 10-13 minutes, they should remain light, with a slight golden hue. Cool the finished cookies on a wire rack.
6. Melt the chocolate in the microwave or water bath. Dip the cookie halves in chocolate, let set a little, and then sprinkle with decorative sprinkles if desired.