One of the things I always bake at Christmas time are shortbread cookies. These festive shortbread cookies are so easy and fun to make. But best of all they taste delicious as the cookies melt-in-your mouth.
I love to drizzle melted chocolate and add sprinkles onto them. There are so many different shaped cookie cutters you can use. As usual, I love to make mini treats so I used a small star cutter. This recipe makes lots of little cookies. Or you can make quite a few large cookies instead.
Happy Baking xo
Festive Shortbread Cookies
Ingredients
· 250 grams butter, cubed· 1¾ cups plain flour
· ⅔ cups rice flour
· ⅔ caster sugar
· Pinch of salt
Decorations
· Sprinkles· Dark or white chocolate
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 170°C. 2. Line two baking trays with baking paper.
3. Combine flours, sugar and salt into a large bowl. Using your fingertips, rub butter into the flour mixture until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
4. Place mixture onto a lightly floured bench and knead until dough is smooth. Roll out dough to 5mm thickness and use cookie cutters to cut out the shapes.
5. Bake in oven for 10- 12 minutes or until cookies change colour. Leave on baking tray for 5 minutes before lifting onto a cooling rack.
6. Decorate as desired.
Tips
· You can use a food processor to pulse all the ingredients to resemble breadcrumbs· Rolling the dough between two sheet of baking paper makes it easier to lift the cookies off onto the baking tray.
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