FOOD / Chocolate Vanilla Swirl Shortbread Cookies

Today's post will be a lovely little recipe for Chocolate Vanilla Swirl Shortbread Cookies. 

They are so adorable and make great gifts for friends and family!

Vanilla dough:

160g of plain flour

100g of (vegan) butter

50g of caster sugar

1tsp of vanilla essence 

Chocolate dough:

110g of plain flour

20g of cocoa powder

100g of (vegan) butter

50g of caster sugar

1. To make the vanilla dough, place plain flour, butter, caster sugar and vanilla essence into a food processor and blitz until all ingredients are thoroughly mixed. 
2. Take mixed ingredients into a mixing bowl and knead together with your hands. 
3. Wrap the dough with cling film as you prepare the chocolate dough. 
4. To make the chocolate dough, repeat steps 1 & 2 but with the chocolate dough ingredients. (Note: If you find the dough too dry, add a couple drops of water!) 
5. Remove the vanilla dough from cling wrap. Roll out dough into a square (or at least try your hardest). Cut the edges of the dough to make it a more accurate square. Remove excess dough and roll it into a ball and wrap it back up for later use. 
6. Repeat step 5 with the chocolate dough. 
7. Place the square of vanilla dough on top of the square of chocolate dough and roll it up gently like a Swiss roll. Wrap it up in cling wrap and chill it in the refrigerator for about an hour. 
8. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. 
9. Take rolled up dough from fridge and unwrap it. Slice roll into 5mm slices (or however thick you want it). 
10. Bake for 20 minutes then transfer to wire rack to cool. 
11. Since you probably have heaps of dough left over, roll it out and make whatever shapes you want with it, then repeat step 10. )

Happy baking!