December Cooking Club Challenge: Shortbread Cookies

December Cooking Club Challenge: Shortbread Cookies

Ingredients:

• Shortbread Cookies
• 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
• 1/2 cup and 2 Tbsp icing sugar
• 1/4 cup cornstarch or rice flour
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

Shortbread Cookies

Preheat oven to 350 °F. Beat butter until light and fluffy. Sift in icing sugar and beat again until fluffy, scraping down sides of the bowl often. Sift in cornstarch or rice flour and blend in. Sift in all purpose flour and salt and mix until dough comes together (it will be soft). Stir in vanilla.

Spoon large teaspoonfuls of cookie dough (or use a small ice cream scoop) onto an un-greased cookie sheet, leaving 2 inches between cookies and bake for 18 to 20 minutes, until bottoms brown lightly. Remove from cookie sheet to cool.

Chocolate Nougat Shortbread

Prepare shortbread recipe as above and spoon onto an ungreased baking sheet. Press a triangle piece of chocolate nougat candy into the center of each cookie and bake for 18 to 20 minutes, until bottoms brown lightly

These cookies were very simple to do and took very little time which is huge for many of us during the Christmas season. The end result is a lovely cookie with a delicate crumb and wonderful buttery taste. I also did the chocolate nougat version using triangles of Toblerone. You know I can’t stay away from chocolate and neither can my kids! Smiles all around on this one!

Merry Christmas!!

I give this recipe 7.5 chips out of a bag of 10.