Best Shortbread Cookie
If you only make one kind of cookie for the holiday season, the Best Shortbread Cookie is the one to make. These cookies are easy, they’re fun to make and they’re full of buttery deliciousness.
Servings: 16 cookies
Calories: 178kcal
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Butter
- 2 Cups Flour
- 1/2 Cup Powdered sugar
- 1/2 Tsp Vanilla
- 4 Tsp Jam
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.
- Cream butter, vanilla and powdered sugar together in a large bowl. Then add flour and mix with an electric mixer until dough just begins to come together.
- Finish kneading dough by hand until it can be formed into a ball. Then slightly flatten it into a circle.
- Wrap the dough circle in a piece of plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 40 minutes.
- When chilled, add the dough to a piece of parchment paper which has been sprinkled with flour. Add additional flour on the top of the circle. With a floured rolling pin roll the dough out to a thickness of 1/2"
- Add flour to the inside of the stamp and press down firmly into the dough pushing the center button hard enough to pick up the cookie with the stamp. Then push down on the center button to release cookie and place it on a parchment covered sheet pan.
- Stamp remaining cookies, rolling leftover dough and stamping once again until all the dough is used.
- Carefully fill center impression with 1/4 Tsp of the jam of your choice. Then Sprinkle the cookies lightly with granulated sugar.
- Bake 20-25 minutes until the edges of the cookies are slightly brown. Remove and allow cookies to cool on a rack.
Nutrition
Calories: 178kcal | Carbohydrates: 16g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 30mg | Sodium: 102mg | Potassium: 20mg | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 355IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 6mg | Iron: 0.7mg