Kickin' mocha shortbreads with surprise fillings
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Nine years ago, a recipe for her Mocha Shortbread was shared with me by Nancy Joy Evans in Mendocino CA. And for awhile now, I have been filled with a hankering to explore 'surprise fillings' in cookies. This recipe is the fruition of those inspirations! The mocha shortbreads are very chocolatey- containing as much cocoa as flour, and with the buzz of ground coffee beans and the kick of black pepper and cayenne. <br /> <br />Fillings are actually inside the shortbreads, not sandwiched in between individual cookies(remember- I wanted a Surprise inside- and a sandwiched filling would be giving it away!) I eventually explored these fillings: Gianduja, Peanut butter truffle, Amaretto truffle, Almond butter, Peanut butter, Green tea, and Candied orange. I realized the mocha shortbreads were so rich on their own that putting chocolate inside them was just too much, overkill. I settled on the last three as my favorite surprise filings. Then I worked out a way that one batch of shortbread could have three different fillings- for variety's sake! So now you can try one of each, all in the same batch. After all... we pass this way but once!
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