Thursday, January 13, 2011

Royal Shortbread Cookies

2 1/2 cups flour, sifted
3/4 cup superfine sugar
A couple pinches of salt
1 1/2 cups room temperature unsalted butter

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.

Combine the flour, sugar and salt in a mixing bowl. Work in the butter with a fork or pastry cutter until the dough has the consistency of short crust. I ended up using my hands to make sure the dough was mixed well.

Sprinkle a board or your counter top lightly with flour. Turn the dough onto the board and knead until it's smooth. Refrigerate the dough for a couple of hours or overnight (I refrigerated the dough overnight but found that the dough was too cold and hard when I went to work with it).

Grease a cookie pan. Roll out the dough 1/8th inch thick and form the cookies how you want them. I cut them out into stars but I found the dough was a real pain to work with even with a ton of flour. Forming them into small flat balls probably would have been easier. Bake for about 15 minutes (watch them, they burn very fast as I discovered). Let cookies cool.

Melt semi-sweet chocolate chips in microwave. Dip half of each cookie in the chocolate and place on foiled cookies sheet. Let cool in fridge. Melt white chocolate chips in microwave. Use a small spoon to drizzle over the chocolate dipped half of the cookie.

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