Chocolate Spice Acorn Shortbread Squares

Chocolate spice acorn shortbread squares

One of my followers: I wish I didn't have to scroll through a huge story every time I look up a recipe. I don't want to hear about your grandma, I just want to know how many eggs I need.

Me, posts to FB: Do you guys read the stories when you look up recipes on people's blogs?

Numerous people: No, we just want the recipes.

Me: Yeah! I don't have to come up with a story!! Here's the recipe:

Acorn flour

• 1 cup room temperature butter

• 1/2 cup brown sugar

• 1/2 cup maple sugar

• 1 teaspoon vanilla

• 1 cup all-purpose flour

• 1 cup acorn flour

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder

• 1 tablespoon wild spice mix (see below) or apple pie spice

Wild spice mix: in a coffee grinder, grind 1 teaspoon prickly ash seed hulls, 4-5 dried spicebush berries, and a 2" piece of dried wild ginger root.

Spicebush berries, wild ginger root

Heat oven to 350

1. In a large bowl, cream together butter, sugars, and vanilla

2. In the second bowl, mix the remaining ingredients

3. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and stir with a fork until the dough can be formed into a ball.

4. Press dough into a 9x9 pan. Cut into 16 squares.

5. Bake for 28-32 minutes, until edges start to crisp.

6. Cool in pan before removing.

And there we go. I didn't have to write a story and you didn't have to search through the post to find the recipe. Everybody's happy. :)

Chocolate spice acorn shortbread squares