Stash Busting Monday #8: An Alliterative Snack

This week we had a lof of yummy meals, some tried and true favorties, a new recipe or two and a store bought deli made chicken pot pie. Which I consumed entriely by myself.  I also made salty sweet squares to share with my co-workers, which they ate entirely by themselves. In five minutes flat.

Salty Sweet  Shortbread Squares, as adapted from Marha Stewart Living

Ingredients:

• 3 1/4 cup salted small pretzels (I used Newman's Own High Protein Pretzels)
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 stick butter
• 1.2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1 large egg yolk
• 1/2 bag semi sweet choc chips (Aldi brand!!)

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 325 F. Grease a small casserole pan.
2. Pulse 1 3/4 cup pretzwels in a food processor until powdery. Transder 1/2 cup to a bowl and discard the rest. Stir in flour and baking powder. Roughly chop (or pulse) remaining pretzels.
3. Beat butter and sugar until pale and fluggy. Beat in egg yolk and then pretzel flour mixture until combined. Mix in 1/2 cup chopped pretzels..
4. Press dough evenly into pan. Top with 1/4 cup choppped pretzels. Press slightly.
5. Bake until pale and firm aprox. 25 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack and let cool one hour
6. Melt chocolate with a double boiler. Drizzle over cooled shortbread. Let harden then cut into small squares.

Yumo!