Chocolate with Vanilla All Butter Shortbread

Read the list of ingredients, goes the saying, and if you don’t recognise some of them or they sound like they ought to be part of a chemistry experiment, don’t eat it.

Read the back of a packet of our organic Chocolate with Vanilla All Butter Shortbread and you might actually miss the ingredients list. It’s that small.

The list is a classic shortbread recipe – flour, butter, sugar and salt – with two extra: dark chocolate pieces and a touch of natural vanilla flavouring to create a glorious shortbread biscuit.

The flour is made from organic wheat, much of it grown at Home Farm, while the sugar is raw and unprocessed. The butter, meanwhile, is organic British butter from farms where the cattle spend plenty of time outside grazing grass.

It all ends up in the village of Aberlour, by the River Spey, where the famous shortbread maker, Walkers, bakes over 15 kinds of biscuits for us. Like so many of our suppliers and partners, the company is a family firm – still run by a Walker over a hundred years after its founding.

Amid all this simplicity, only one mystery remains: why is it called shortbread?

Well, it means bread that’s easily broken, something that’s apparent when you bite into one of our deliciously crumbly biscuits, safe in the knowledge that there’s nothing but wholesome goodness in your food.

Ingredients

Organic wheat flour, organic butter (25%), organic sugar, dark chocolate chips (15%) (cocoa mass, sugar, emulisifier: soya lecithin*), sea salt* natural vanilla flavourings*, raising agent (ammonium bicarbonate*)

*approved non-organic ingredient

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