Chocolate-vanilla shortbread cookies

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Ingredients for white vanilla dough.

2. Step 2:

   

   Knead the butter softened at room temperature in advance.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add powdered sugar and mix.

4. Step 4:

   

   Enter the egg, mix well. Add the slaked soda.

5. Step 5:

   

   Sift flour, mix with vanilla and add parts to the oil mixture. Do not rush to pour out all the flour at once.

6. Step 6:

   

   The dough should be soft, elastic, it should not stick to your hands. It is possible that a little flour may remain, it depends on its quality. I have about 2 tables left. spoons.

7. Step 7:

   

   Divide the vanilla dough into 2 parts and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

8. Step 8:

   

   Meanwhile, we will prepare the dough with chocolate-colored cocoa.

9. Step 9:

   

   We take flour on the 3rd table. spoons are smaller, since we still have cocoa from the bulk ingredients. Sift the flour with cocoa and mix.

10. Step 10:

    

    Knead the chocolate dough similarly to vanilla (see steps 2-6).

11. Step 11:

    

    Divide the chocolate dough into 2 parts and cool. To save time, you can put it in the freezer for 10-15 minutes.

12. Step 12:

    

    First we make cookies with a spiral pattern. We take out one part of the vanilla and one part of the chocolate dough. We roll out thin light and dark layers.

14. Step 13:

    

    Using a rolling pin, we carefully apply a dark layer to a light one.

15. Step 14:

    

    Roll up the roll. Cool in the freezer for 30 minutes so that the cookies do not crumple when cutting.

16. Step 15:

    

    Let's do chess. We take out the remaining parts of the dough. We divide the light dough.From one part we roll out a thin layer.

17. Step 16:

    

    From the other part of the vanilla dough and from the chocolate dough we cut the cubes equal in length to the width of the light layer.

18. Step 17:

    

    We stack the bars in a staggered order.

19. Step 18:

    

    Carefully roll up and cool well. If there are small remnants of dark and light dough, you can make cookies with a marble pattern. To do this, simply combine the leftovers together, mix and also cool.

20. Step 19:

    

    When the rolls have hardened, cut the cookies 1 cm wide. These are spirals.

21. Step 20:

    

    We also cut chess pieces.

22. Step 21:

    

    Spread the cookies on a lightly oiled baking sheet. Bake at 220 degrees. 15-20 minutes.

23. Step 22:

    

    Fragrant cookies are ready.

24. Step 23:

    

    Have a nice tea party!