Recipe: Appetizing Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Tea Bag Cookies

Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Tea Bag Cookies. Although tea bag cookies are easy to make, they do require a bit of work….but they are just so cute that it's completely worth it! Prepare the shortbread dough, shape the cookies to look like tea bags, bake them, dip them in chocolate, add bakers twine or kitchen thread and labels to complete the look. Impress your friends the next time you have them over for tea with these chocolate dipped shortbread tea bag cookies. Super easy recipe with step by step tutorial. Tea Bag Cookies with Printable "Sherlock" Tea Tags and Bonus Recipe.

We're celebrating around here by making these Sherlock-themed tea bag cookies. The cookie base is my favorite crumbly, buttery shortbread, covered with melted chocolate and adorned with custom tea tags for a perfect. Dip half of each cookie in the melted chocolate to make it look like there is tea inside, and place it on a tray lined with baking paper. You can cook Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Tea Bag Cookies using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Tea Bag Cookies

1. You need 250 g of all-purpose flour.
2. Prepare 100 g of sugar.
3. It's Pinch of salt.
4. It's 100 g of unsalted butter.
5. It's of Vanilla extract.
6. It's 1 of large egg.
7. Prepare 100 g of dark chocolate.
8. You need 2-3 tsp of water if needed.
9. You need of Use a tea bag to make the shape.

This particular shortbread cookies recipe is brought to the next level with the help of semisweet chocolate. Although you could skip that step altogether, because the buttery shortbread cookie is already so delicious! Chocolate dipping Shortbread cookies are great on their own, but for me, everything gets better with a little bit of chocolate. For chocolate dipped cookies, you'll need to melt half of the chocolate, then add the remaining chocolate and stir occasionally until all of it is melted.

Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Tea Bag Cookies instructions

1. Mix everything in a bowl apart from the water and chocolate...add it if the dough feels a bit hard.. Which is very unlikely.
2. Knead everything well....chill it for about 20 minutes in the fridge.
3. 20 minutes later, roll out the dough.... Use an actual tea bag to cut out the shapes.
4. You can cut off a little triangle at the top on both sides to get a fancy shape..make a tiny hole that will hold the tag.
5. Bake in a preheated oven 180/degrees C for 12-15 mins.
6. Once cooled,melt your chocolate and dip the lower part of the tea bag.
7. Yum!.

These Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Cookies are my latest creation and I don't know if shortbread gets any better! You just can't go wrong with this combination. The bittersweet chocolate gives them makes them perfectly balanced with sweet, buttery flavors that will leave you wanting more. They remind me of Walker shortbread, so simple, but oh-so-good. I didn't even get to dip them in chocolate, but I suspect there won't be much left by the time I get home.