Nutty Chocolate Shortbread

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 10 tablespoons butter
• 1 1/4 cups hazelnuts or 1 1/4 cups pecans or 1 1/4 cups walnuts or 1 1/4 cups almonds
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 sugar
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 ounce semisweet chocolate
• 1 tablespoon butter

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 melt the 10 tablespoons of butter and set aside.
• 3 on a lightly greased baking sheet bake the nuts for 2-3 minutes. shake and bake for 2-3 more minutes.
• 4 in the food processor grind the nuts until fine.
• 5 add the flour and sugar and pulse a few times to mix. add the 10 tablespoons of butter and pulse again.
• 6 form the dough into two balls and press each of them into a buttered and floured 8 inch pie pan.
• 7 cut each of the rounds of dough into 16 slices.
• 8 bake on the middle oven rack for 20 - 25 minutes, or until pale golden. let cool on a rack before cutting again and inverting onto a plate.
• 9 while the dough is baking melt together the 1 tablespoon of butter and the chocolate. when the shortbread is finished baking drizzle a little on each slice.