When David Riley and I were making cookies on Black Friday, I decided to look for a shortbread cookie recipe and I came up with a real gem!!!! This is the easiest and BEST TASTING recipe I've ever tried. It even beats the shortbread my Aunt Cathy (from Ireland) makes!!!!
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HOLIDAY SHORTBREAD COOKIES
5 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
2 cups cold butter, cubed (not margarine!)
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
In a large bowl, sift flour, sugar and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Pour all of the mixture into a sheet cake pan (15"x 10"x 1"). Press firmly with hands wrapped with plastic wrap. If you sprinkle colored sugar or finely chopped nuts on top, make sure you pat these firmly in place, also.
Bake for 35 minutes or until center is set and firm. Cool for 10 minutes, then cut into small squares or diamonds. Continue cooling in pan until room temperature. Yields 5 dozen cookies.
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This may well become a staple in our house, because I LOVE SHORTBREAD!!!!!
Do you have any really quick easy cookie recipes to share??
3 comments:
Hey! I was looking for a shortbread cookie recipe! I need something that won't *poof* and loose it's shape if I use a cookie cutter -- do these poof? They sure sound tasty!!!:-)
Hey, Kim! This recipe doesn't "poof", but you can't roll it out to use with cookie cutters. I suppose you could bake it and then use the cookie cutters after it has cooled for a bit.
Ohh I see, now that I read all the directions, LOL! But cutting them as they cool is an interesting idea and leaves lots of inbetweenie pieces to sample! :) I'll try this soon!! Thank you, Theresa!!
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