Snow's Festive Chocolate Shortbreads

Ingredients

Shortbreads
  1 cup powdered sugar
  1 cup butter softened
  1 3/4 cup flour
  1/4 cup cornstarch
Decoration
  3/4 cup dark chocolate (for melting)
  1 tsp shortening
  1 TB or more topping such as crushed walnuts

Time
  15 min prep + 30 min cook

Directions

Preheat oven to 325F. Combine powdered sugar and butter and beat until fluffy. Add flour and cornstarch and mix evenly.

Divide into 4 even balls. On a lightly greased cookie sheet, roll each ball into a patty 1/4 inch thick and about 6 inches across. With butter knife, score each patty completely through into 8 even pie slices. Prick each slice 3 times with a fork.

Bake for 15 - 25 minutes until edges are golden brown. Remove and allow cookies to cool completely.

Gently cut wedges apart and remove from sheet with a spatula.

Prepare a cool place with wax paper. Bring to simmer a double boiler (or a small, empty pot inside a larger pot with enough water to cover most of the way up the sides of the small one).
Add the chocolate and shortening and stir constantly until melted. Remove from heat. Drizzle or dip shortbread wedges in chocolate and dip in crushed walnuts or other toping.

Place on wax paper to cool.