As the Holidays get closer thoughts of sugar plums are dancing in my mind, and tonight my cravings for shortbread cookies did. We went to the grocery earlier and I withheld from getting one of those tins of little danish cookies (Zach and I both have a weak spot for those...) but my cravings returned.
I found a great recipe for Shortbread cookies and conveniently I had all the ingredients in the apartment already!
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 Cups of Butter (2 1/2 sticks cut into little slices)
- 2 Cups of All Purpose Flour
- 1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar
- 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
- 1/8 cup Cornstarch
Directions
- Mix Four, Butter, Sugar and Salt on low speed until blended, then increase to medium and mix until dough "comes together" ie. looks like cookie dough...
- Press Dough Evenly into a 9inch round cake pan.
- Sprinkle with Coarse Sugar (I only had colored but I thought that made it festive!) I also really like mixing sweet and salty so I sprinkled it with Coarse Salt too!
- Bake at 325 degrees for 30-40 minutes until it becomes lightly browned.
- "Cut" the Shortbread while it is still warm with a fork....now I thought this was odd, but a knife kinda tore it up, scoring the wedges by poking a fork in it actually worked better!
Eat and Enjoy! I must say it was pretty good and I was amazed at how flavorful it was with even with as simple as the recipe was! I'm going to have to try this for a holiday function a definite repeat!
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