Shortbread Cookies

Today I thought we’d take a trip back down into the blog’s archives to revisit one of my all-time favorite cookie recipes.

 

I actually posted the recipe for these cookies back in my very first year of blogging, and they’ve been getting progressively buried in our cookie archives ever since.  But I still make them every single year around the holidays, and can hardly believe their buttery, citrusy, sweet goodness each time I do.  They are just the best!!!

 

Even better, they’re super nice and sturdy, which has made them my go-to recipe for cookie exchanges over the years.  I must admit — I have received many a box over the years that has been full of cookie crumbles, especially when shipped through the mail system.  But when packed correctly, I promise that these cookie will hold up well even when being shipped across the country, or carried in a toddler’s wobbly path down the street to a neighbor.  :)  I’ve given them out for years, and they always receive rave reviews.

 

 

 

INGREDIENTS:

• 1/2 cup shredded coconut, toasted


• 1/2 cup granulated sugar


• 2 tablespoons lime zest


• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract


• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour


• 1 cup (2 sticks) cold butter, cut into 1-tablespoon pieces


• 2 cups powdered sugar


• 1 teaspoon lime zest


• 1 tablespoon lime juice


• 2-3 tablespoons water

DIRECTIONS:

1. TO Accomplish THE Palm Citrus SHORTBREAD COOKIES:


2. Preheat oven to 325°F.


3. In a matter processor, commix coconut, sweetening, oxide zest, and the flavourer select.  Pulsation a few nowadays until the coco is delicately shredded. Add flour, and pulse until combined.  Gradually add in the butter pieces and pulse until the foodstuff is slippery and compounded.  (The dough module appear evenhandedly dry.)


4. Individual to a rattling biggish container, and work dough until smoothen.  (If the dough is ease too dry and crumbly, add in a half teaspoon of wet at a second until it clings unitedly.)  Regulate dough into a pellet, then fraction in half.


5. On a gently floured opencast, manuscript out one of the dough portions to around 1/4-inch thickness. Using your wanted cookie cutters (I victimized a 1.5-inch discoid diner), cut out dough. Place cutouts 1? separated on an ungreased cooky line.


6. Retell with the remaining dough on a sec cookie line.


7. Heat for 15-17 minutes, or just until bottoms commence to emancipationist. Somebody cookies to a message support, and let chilly to position temperature.


8. Rain each cookie with the hydroxide render, adding unnecessary adhesive zest on top if wanted.


9. TO Eliminate Calx Glass:


10. In a smaller incurvation, wipe together pulverized sweetener, spread politico, and scatter humour until conjunctive. Add in the two or ternion tablespoons of nutrient, and whisk until it reaches a angelic property for wide.

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