Shortbread cookies with chocolate and nuts

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I, as always, have no idea what to tell you. Stories from my childhood came to mind, all for some reason related to movies or cartoons. I really liked to watch "12 months" and "Morozko". Who remembers: "Is it warm for you, maiden, is it warm for you, beauty"?  It was a good movie. What's my point? Read on. :))

And so still until about 8 p.m. tonight there was no story. I baked cookies, but I have no idea what the story is about. But I think, okay, I'll start writing and I'll think of something. My son went to his grandmother, my husband and I had a romantic dinner, lit some candles, and then I remembered about the fireplace. I had to think of him. My husband refused, saying that we had not touched it for a year, let it be, but I was adamant: I want, say, a fire and warmth and comfort. My husband reluctantly lit the fireplace, I calmed down.    Candles burning, wood in the fire crackling, lights dancing, warm, good. My husband nestled nearby, warming his bones. For 20 minutes the idyll was complete. Then my husband began to smell. Smoke was not going up the chimney but down the house. Not good, you can also poison yourself, we opened the windows. But the fire is burning, and the smoke is smoky....Any more fun: my husband is running around the house with a stepladder, I open the windows... We put out the fireplace, ventilate the house. January, everything is wide open! It could be -17° at night... And we keep watching the movie. We're sitting on the sofa with my husband, all wrapped up in plaid, me in a hooded sweater and gloves... I have to share a recipe and write a story.  Are you warm, maiden?

Anyway, again without a story the cookies will be:))    Delicious and easy to make. And with our favorite and traditional ingredients - chocolate and nuts.

And so the recipe itself:

375g general purpose flour

100g fine cooking sugar

1/4 tsp salt

200g soft butter

30g soft cream cheese

2 tsp vanilla extract

200g unsweetened chocolate chips (or chocolate), at least 60% cocoa

1 cup chopped roasted hazelnuts

1/4 cup currants (frozen, defrost)

1 tablespoon currant syrup

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 190°. For baking prepare either a baking tray or a 30x40 cm dish, cover with baking paper.

- Mix the flour, sugar and salt in the mixer bowl. Change the mixer bowl to the flat nozzle and add the butter piece by piece, beating it on low speed. Add the cream cheese and vanilla extract and whisk lightly on low speed until the ingredients are blended. Continue by hand to bring the mixture together into a clump.

- Transfer the dough to a baking tray and spread by hand around the circumference. I rolled out with a rolling pin on the paper and then transferred it to the baking tray.

Bake for twenty minutes, flip in the middle.

-While the cookies are baking, melt the chocolate in a water bath. Grate the currants, mix with the syrup and add to the melted chocolate.

-Take the cookies out of the oven, cool slightly (about 5 minutes) and spread the chocolate mixture on them. Sprinkle with nuts or marmalade slices or whatever you like.

Let stand for about fifteen minutes and slice with a sharp knife or round cutter. Transfer them to a rack and allow to cool completely.

This portion will yield approximately 48 pieces.

My notes:

-The original had a little more butter and more sugar, I reduced it.

-The original suggested spreading the chocolate chips over the dough as soon as we took it out of the oven. I was afraid that they would not melt, and I wanted to add currants to the chocolate. You could substitute raspberries.

-I rolled out thicker dough (my baking dish is a little smaller), you can make the rhombuses thinner. I baked for 20 minutes.

-It is very important to cut the cookies into loaves while they are still soft and cool. Then it will crumble.

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