{"id":31495,"date":"2020-12-28T07:23:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T12:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kalofagas.ca\/?p=31495"},"modified":"2020-12-28T09:26:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T14:26:05","slug":"chocolate-chip-shortbread-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kalofagas.ca\/2020\/12\/28\/chocolate-chip-shortbread-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31502\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201226_131753-01.jpeg?resize=800%2C929&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201226_131753-01.jpeg?w=2268&ssl=1 2268w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201226_131753-01.jpeg?resize=768%2C892&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201226_131753-01.jpeg?resize=1323%2C1536&ssl=1 1323w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201226_131753-01.jpeg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>I miss traveling. Planes, trains and automobiles but mostly planes. Pre-Covid days, air travel was becoming a pain because of security precautions, check-in deadlines, inclement weather. I’ve flown in business class on occasion\u00a0 and yes, the experience is better than in economy but air travel has a certain degree of stress.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Toronto, we have a smaller airline called Porter; they fly out of Island Airport located near downtown. Destinations are as far as to Atlantic Canada, US east coast and mid west and even some southern US states.<\/p>\n<p>Porter’s waiting lounge had a coffee corner, free bottles of water, some granola and these yummy chocolate chip shortbread cookies. I would stuff my napsack with these cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Porter corporate dudes switched to regular shortbreads and the last time I flew with Porter, the lounge with comp’d treats and refreshments is gone. Suits be damned!<\/p>\n<p>I miss those chocolate chip shortbreads and it was high time to make my own. We can make our own!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31501\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201226_131746-01.jpeg?resize=800%2C1143&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201226_131746-01.jpeg?w=2268&ssl=1 2268w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201226_131746-01.jpeg?resize=768%2C1097&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201226_131746-01.jpeg?resize=1075%2C1536&ssl=1 1075w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201226_131746-01.jpeg?resize=1433%2C2048&ssl=1 1433w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201226_131746-01.jpeg?resize=400%2C572&ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201226_131746-01.jpeg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(makes approx. 24 cookies)<\/p>\n<p><em>1\/2 cup corn starch<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>1\/2 cup icing sugar<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>1\/4 tsp. salt<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>1 cup all-purpose flour<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>3\/4 cup room temperature butter<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>pre-heated 325F oven<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Add your corn starch, flour, sugar and salt into a sifter over a bowl and…sift. In your stand mixer with the paddle attachment, add your butter and mix on low for 2 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Add the dry ingredients in a slow stream until just combined. Add the chocolate chips and mix in with a spatula. Cover and place in the fridge for an hour.<\/li>\n<li>Take out of the fridge, roll out and cut into shapes or make logs out of the dough and cut into 1\/2 inch pieces\u00a0 and place on parchment-lined baking sheet.<\/li>\n<li>Bake for 18-20 minutes or until the edges just begin to brown. Allow to cool completely before transferring to a cookie tin.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Tip:<\/strong> <em>You may omit the chocolate chips and make standard shortbread cookies<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201224_140635-01.jpeg?resize=800%2C1119&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201224_140635-01.jpeg?w=2161&ssl=1 2161w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201224_140635-01.jpeg?resize=768%2C1075&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201224_140635-01.jpeg?resize=1098%2C1536&ssl=1 1098w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201224_140635-01.jpeg?resize=1464%2C2048&ssl=1 1464w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201224_140635-01.jpeg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss traveling. Planes, trains and automobiles but mostly planes. Pre-Covid days, air travel was becoming a pain because of security precautions, check-in deadlines, inclement weather. I’ve flown in business class on occasion\u00a0 and yes, the experience is better than in economy but air travel has a certain degree of stress. Here in Toronto, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":31501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,27,96,128,199,168,399,100,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baking","category-butter","category-chocolate","category-cookies","category-featured","category-recipe","category-samos","category-sugar","category-sweets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201226_131746-01.jpeg?fit=2268%2C3241&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalofagas.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}