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Shortbread Christmas Cookies
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"These buttery shortbread cookies are so tasty and hold their shape very well. Make beautiful Valentine hearts also!"
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Ingredients
1 h 15 m servings 149Original recipe yields 36 servings (3 dozen cookies)
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Directions
{{model.addEditText}} Print- Whisk together flour, sugar, and salt in a large bowl; with a pastry cutter, chop in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir the rum extract and almond extract into the water in a small bowl. Mix into the dry ingredients, a little bit at a time, until the mixture holds together in a ball when you squeeze it.
- Place the dough onto a floured work surface, and sprinkle with flour; roll out into a sheet 1/4 inch thick. Cut into shapes with floured cookie cutters, and place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets. Cover with a layer of plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
- Bake the cookies just until the edges are lightly browned, 15 to 18 minutes. Allow to cool on sheets for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks to finish cooling. Cool completely before decorating.
- For frosting, whisk the confectioners' sugar and milk in a bowl until smooth. If desired, divide frosting into small bowls, and tint each bowl a desired shade with food coloring. Frost fully cooled cookies, and sprinkle with edible glitter before the frosting sets.
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Most helpful positive review
10/12/2011
a very nice shortbread recipe. i did it the easy way and mixed the dry ingredients in the food processor and then processed it with the cold butter (chopped into slices) until thoroughly mixed a...
Most helpful critical review
11/28/2015
Overall I just found this recipe average, not the go to cut-out cookie recipe I was hoping for. I made the recipe exactly as written except that I used a food processor to cut in the butter. Th...
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10/12/2011
a very nice shortbread recipe. i did it the easy way and mixed the dry ingredients in the food processor and then processed it with the cold butter (chopped into slices) until thoroughly mixed a...
12/2/2012
I did these in my Cuisinart food processor and thought "what a horrible and dry mess"....I dumped these onto a big piece of wax paper and started "working it" a tad bit and it came together so I...
11/30/2011
These cookies are amazing!! very easy to make and extremely tasty! my family couldn't get enough of them. I would highly recommend them.
12/31/2011
I made these cookies along with gingerbread cookies and chocolate chip cookies. The shortbread cookies where a hit with my sons 5th grade class and everyone who came over for Christmas dinner. T...
12/16/2013
I really wanted to Love these! I dont know where i went wrong from the beginning my dough was pretty dry and crumbly I had to add a couple more tbs of water just to get the dough workable! Taste...
12/23/2012
Delicious recipe...they tasted like Lorna Doone's! I'm an amateur so I wasn't sure if they were going to turn out well, but they were a hit! I even had a coworker say that it tasted like it was...
2/19/2012
Very good, everyone liked them. A bit surprising how much time it took to make and ice them! Made as hearts for valentine's day, left some plain and iced and iced/sprinkled others. I liked th...
11/28/2015
Overall I just found this recipe average, not the go to cut-out cookie recipe I was hoping for. I made the recipe exactly as written except that I used a food processor to cut in the butter. Th...