Easy, delicious heart-shaped shortbread cookies!
Ingredients
- 3 sticks (1 ½ cups unsalted butter)
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- Few drops of pink or red food color (optional)
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 300 F.
- With a flat beater, cream butter until light and smooth.
- Add granulated sugar and mix until well blended.
- Add powdered sugar and salt and beat until fully combined.
- Add the flour and beat until fully incorporated.
- Optional: add a few drops of food color. Mix the food color in with the dough until thoroughly combined.
- For cutouts, wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill for about 15 minutes. Divide dough in two or three portions. Roll on a sheet of waxed paper and cut shapes with a cookie cutter. Bake on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper for about 15 minutes, remove from oven and lightly sprinkle with sugar while still very warm.
- If baking cookie dough in a baking dish, press the dough evenly in a 9 x 13 ovenproof dish and pierce the dough making deep indentations with a fork all over the surface. Bake for about 35 – 40 minutes or, if the dough is not tinted, until lightly browned and slightly darker at the edges. Remove from the oven and cut into squares while still warm.
Note:
Bake time is about 15 mins if baking cutouts on a cookie sheet, and about 40 mins if baking in an oven-proof dish.
Source: sugarywinzy.com
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