Viennese Chocolate Fingers
Comments: These easy to make fabulous light cookies just melt in your mouth !
They also can be eaten as is, without chocolate, or sandwiched two-by-two, a little cream butter between each.
Preparation time : 20 minutes
Baking time : 15 minutes
Calories : 161
Proteins : 1 g
Carbohydrates : 20 g
Sugars : 11 g
Fat : 9 g
Saturated fat : 6 g
Servings: 18 cookies
  • 1/2 cup [115 g] unsalted butter
  • 6 tablespoons [90 mL] icing sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups [210 g] self-rising flour, sifted
  • 3 tablespoons [45 mL] cornstarch
  • 7 ounces [200 g] dark chocolate
  • Preheat oven to 375°F []190°C.
  • Lightly grease 2 cookie sheets.
  • Into a bowl, beat together unsalted butter and icing sugar until light and smooth.
  • Beat in already mixed together sifted flour and cornstarch.
  • Melt 2 3/4 ounces [78 g] of dark chocolate; beat melted chocolate into dough.
  • Spoon dough into a pastry tube with a large star-shaped end.
  • Press dough into approximately 2-inch [5-cm] long fingers, apart from each other, onto greased cookie sheets.
  • Bake into preheated oven for 12 to 15 minutes.
  • Leave to cool slightly onto baking sheets and then, using a spatula, transfer fingers onto wire racks.
  • Leave to cool completely.
  • Then melt dark chocolate and dip fingers, one at a time to coat one end of each finger with melted chocolate.
  • Let excess chocolate drip into bowl, then transfer each finger onto parchment.
  • Leave chocolate to harden before serving.