A light and simple, melt in your mouth shortbread cookie. Egg-free for those with allergies. Garnish with pastel candy sprinkles for an easy Easter treat.
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Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies: Butter Pecan Shortbread
DAY 7: Butter Pecan Shortbread
Rich buttery shortbread studded with toasted pecans. A simple, but delicious cookie perfect for dipping in hot cocoa!
For a nut-free traditional Scottish Shortbread, try this recipe:
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Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies: Apricot Thumbprints
DAY 4: Apricot Thumbprints
Thumbprint cookies of all varieties are always favorites around here. These apricot thumbprints are a light almond flavored shortbread cookie filled with sweet apricot jam and drizzled with an almond glaze.
To avoid cracks in your baked cookies, be sure to not pack the flour when measuring, and keep the dough covered while shaping cookies to keep the dough from drying out. (And don’t overbake. Cookies should be just barely starting to brown on the bottoms.)
For a fuller jam center, I like to add a little extra jam to the centers after baking.
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Valentine Whipped Shortbread Cookies
Simple to make shortbread cookies made festive with Valentine sprinkles. So much easier than rolling, cutting out, and frosting regular sugar cookies.
The dough is quick to make with no chilling or rolling required. The addition of cornstarch to the cookie dough helps these to melt in your mouth.
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Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies: Raspberry Crumb Bars
DAY 12: Raspberry Crumb Bars
These raspberry bars are a shortbread based cookie, which makes them pretty crumbly to eat, but I love the combination of raspberries and nuts.
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Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies: Shortbread Brownies
DAY 7: Shortbread Brownies
An easy way to dress up a brownie mix (or use your own homemade brownie recipe for the top layer). Ghirardelli is my favorite boxed brownie mix, but you can you any brand made for baking in a 9×13” pan.
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