Chocolate Almond Shortbread Bars

These Chocolate Almond Shortbread Bars have a super buttery and soft shortbread cookie base, with a crunchy chocolate layer filled with almonds and sea salt sprinkled on top
It’s super simple to make, and the buttery cookie layer with the chocolate layer make a delicious flavor combo.
Ingredients you’ll need
- Unsalted butter
- All-purpose flour
- Powdered sugar
- Salt
- Vanilla extract
- Heavy cream
- Semi-sweet chocolate bar (35-45% cacao)
- Slivered almonds
- Sea salt to sprinkle on top

How to make Chocolate Almond Shortbread Bars (with how-to video)
These Shortbread bars are simple to make; watch the video below for more details:
Tips and Tricks for making the perfect bars
- Fine chopped chocolate: The finer you chop the chocolate, the quicker it melts! to prevent having chunks of unmelted chocolate in your ganache, make sure that your chocolate bar is equally chopped and in very small pieces
- Avoid using chocolate chips: Chocolate chips are made to retain their shape, they contain less cocoa butter and they don’t melt as easily as chocolate bars, so for recipes where you need to melt chocolate, it’s better to avoid them
- Don’t let the cream boil: Cream should be just simmering around the edges before pouring it on top of the chocolate, if you let the cream boil it might separate or burn the chocolate

Substitutions
- Butter in the shortbread: you can substitute the butter in the shortbread layer for vegan butter in a 1:1 ratio
- Chocolate: You can substitute the chocolate for a dairy free or sugar free version, just make sure it’s a semi-sweet chocolate, with 35%-45% cacao
- Almonds: feel free to substitute the almonds with any nuts of your choice, using the same amount called for in the recipe
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