Christmas Shortbread Cookies
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If you are looking for a delicious batch of CHRISTMAS SHORTBREAD COOKIES, you are in the right place. So sit back and make yourself a cup of tea and enjoy.
Mixing the ingredients together by hand until all ingredients are formed into a ball, or with your mixer or blender. After your dough is formed into a ball flatten for dough, cutout or roll in 1 inch balls and flatten them add a cherry or sprinkles.
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If you are still interested in our cookies today, please continue on to our recipe thats posted below!
Ingredients
- FULL BATCH COOKIES:
- Flour - 1-1/4 cups
- Cornstarch - 1/2 cup
- Confectionary sugar - 1/2 cup
- Butter - 3/4 cup, unsalted
- SMALL BATCH COOKIES:
- Flour - 3/4 cup
- Cornstarch - 1/3 cup
- Confectionary sugar - 1/3 cup
- Butter - 1/2 cup
Instructions
- In a medium bowl add cold BUTTER in cubes, or stride, add dry ingredients.
- With your hand work the dough and shape into a ball, or with your kitchen aid.
- Rollout with rolling pin or flatten with hand to about quarter inch thick, then use christmas cut outs to shape the cookies, or roll 1 inch balls.
- Add cookies to ungreased cookie sheet 2 inches apart, using a fork, spatula or hand to flatten the shortbread balls and add sprinkles, or red and green cherries, put in fridge to cool for 40 to 60 minutes, then pre-heat your oven to 300º F and bake for 15 to 20 minutes, depending on your oven.
- DON’T over bake cookies to be hard or to brown, after baked remove from oven let cookies come to room temp before removing from pan.
- Decorate your cookies with powdered sugar, or icing of choice. I will share my BOILED ICING RECIPE with you to use and enjoy.
BOILED ICING
Ingredients:
1 CUP MILK
4 TSBP FLOUR
1 CUP WHITE SUGAR
1/2 CUP BUTTER OR MARGARINE
1 TSP VANILLA or Flavour of choice
1 TSP CORN SYRUP ( optional )
METHOD:
- In a medium saucepan add milk, sugar and flour, start to boil on a medium heat stirring continuously.
- After liquid starts to boil slowly and thicken, this can take around 5 minutes, remove from heat and stir in vanilla to mixture.
- Put all sugar paste mixture into a bowl or jar and bring to room temperature, then put in the fridge to cool. This can take 1 hour or more for the sugar paste to cool totally.
- In a medium mixing bowl with a blender, add butter and slowly scoop the sugar paste mixture into the bowl with your butter and blend on high speed, until all combined and light and fluffy.
- Add corn syrup continue mixing until combined and put the bowl of boiled icing in the fridge until ready to use it.
Bonita’s Tips:
1. Having the sugar paste cold is important, this will help make the icing creamy and fluffy.
2. If longer storage you can put the leftover boiled icing in a mason jar with lid up to a week.
3. ONLY use BUTTER for shortbread cookies.
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Bonita’s Kitchen is pleased to announce we just released our second cookbook and the link is posted below, this cookbook is our way of saying thank you to each and everyone of you for your continues support over these last few years.
https://www.bonitaskitchen.com/cookbook
Christmas shortbread cookies are pretty much are all the same.
But making perfect shortbread cookies every time is hard, we have a short video tutorial and recipe posted above for you to follow and make a delicious batch of CHRISTMAS SHORTBREAD COOKIES. Thank you for stopping by and don’t forget to leave a message.
From our kitchen to yours keep baking and cooking, Bonita, RMHussey Productions and Team.
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Boiled icing is a new recipe for me to try.
Hi Mary, I’m so glad you are going to give our boiled icing a try, I’m sure you will love it and its so tasty. 🙂 Enjoy Bonita
Hi…I just made 24 dozen shortbread cookies! Very good! I am still in search for a good sugar cookie recipe! My grandmother use to make them some with white sugar and some with brown! Thanks for the recipe!
Hi Flora: Thank you for your message and I will keep looking for the sugar cookies you are talking about, I’m sure someone will help me find some, I’m glad you made some shortbread cookies and enjoyed them. Take care and Merry Christmas. 🙂 Bonita
Hi Bonita, just watched the video of the shortbread cookies. Can i use salted butter i stead of unsalted and if so what difference willit make to the cookies? Thank you. Karen Carter.?❤️
Hi Karen: Thank you for your message and stopping by, you can use salted butter if you wish its won’t change the taste. Its just thats the butter I usually use when I make these, but don’t go buy any if you have salted.
Enjoy Bonita