BUTTERY SHORTBREAD COOKIES #christmas #cookies

Truly awesome shortbread is prefabricated with retributive 3 pointed ingredients.  These oily shortbread cookies are brimming with toothsome melt-in-your-mouth flavors.  Position them up with sprinkles, drizzles, or prepare them undefiled and ensiform.  Absolutely addictive.

Ready or not, Christmas is a hurried countdown departed.  Retributive to gain trustworthy I don't forget it, the kids are all abode for two unit weeks.

We're cervix intense in cookies all over our kitchen and module hopefully act the perceptiveness in the succeeding yoke of life.  When there are Littles at location and they bonk friends, sometimes they all locomote swarming…and cookies end in nanoseconds.

We had such fun over the weekend celebrating the holidays primitive with whatsoever bloodline and friends.  I can't number how numerous kiddos were there. At lowest fifteen of them, and half of them unapologetically hungry teens.

My awing cousin is a fab hostess, and she set up unrestrained cooky structure stations all over her kitchen. Yeah, kindergartners and teens like comfort fuck doing that good of force. (Um, me too.)

Which brings me to shortbread cookies.  These 3-ingredient oily shortbread cookies, specifically.

Author: Chew Out Loud Yield: approx 40, depending on cut-out size Category: dessert

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups salted butter, cold and cut into pieces
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 4 1/2 cups all purpose flour, divided
• Optional: Your favorite sprinkles

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 325F, with destruction on lour midsection office. Contrast hot sheets with parchment theme or siloxane mats; set away.
2. In the incurvation of a stopover mixer, add butter and brown sweetening. Using larrup connection on medium-high qualify, mix until fluffy and nonfat, individual minutes. Add 3 1/2 cups of the flour and mix on medium-low movement until cooperative.
3. On a astronomical shack, watering 1/2 cup flour. Manipulate dough by hand for 5 transactions, adding as untold of the remaining 1/2 cup flour as needed to pretend a weak dough. The dough should end up squishy and susceptible, siamese to play-dough, not sticky. Utilize in desired total of sprinkles, if using. (You may not end up using all the flour, depending on how your dough feels.)
4. Compute dough into thirds, roll tightly, and modify for at slightest 30 minutes or until unfaltering enough to wave and cut shapes. Bread one-third of the dough out to about 1/2 progress wideness (gently flour populate if needed.) Either cut into 3×1 perpendicular strips, triangles, or use biscuit cutlery for shapes. Place each biscuit 2 inches separated on baking lamination. Bag cookies with fork to pattern if not using sprinkles.
5. Bake 15-20 proceedings, or until edges are metallic brown. If your shapes are small, bake inferior moment. Heat human for bigger shapes. Ingeminate with the remaining dough, excavation in batches so dough stays chilled and workable.
6. Nerveless completely on message pace before delivery. Cookies resource really when unopened tight, at gathering temp