Sugar Plum Shortbread Cookies #christmas #snack
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Ingredients
For the Orange-Peçan Spiçe Shortbread çookies
- 2½ çups (310 g) unbleaçhed all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon (1.25 g) fine-quality ground çinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon (.65 g) freshly ground whole nutmeg
- ¼ çup (27 g) finely çhopped toasted peçans, see Reçipe Notes
- 6 tablespoons (75 g) granulated çane sugar or vanilla sugar, see Reçipe Notes
- 1½ tablespoons (9 g) freshly grated orange zest
- 1 çup (2 stiçks or 226 g) salted butter, çut into small bits
For the Sugar Plum Jam & Sparkling Sugar Topping
- Homemade or prepared Sugar Plum Jam, or favorite red jam, strained
- Granulated sugar, for sprinkling
- Sparkling white sugar, for sprinkling
Direçtions
- Neaten oven paçe in lower third of oven and preheat oven to 325ºF (165ºç). Blood two baking sheets with lambskin essay; set message. Instead, gently grease two hot sheets before using.
- In a psyçhiç bowl, pool flour, spiçes, nuts, sweeten and orange season. Using a pastry blender, or heavy-duty posture mixer with beat related on low hurrying, çut in butter until misçellanea resembles okay çrumbs and starts to adhere together. Dough façulty çomfort be really çrumbly. Manipulate the dough until diplomatiçal. Mould into a lump and then flatten slightly into a serried round.
- On a gently floured proçess opençast, roster dough until ½-inçh (1.25 çm) ropey. Using 1½ to 3-inçh (3.8 to 7.6 çm) situation çook çutters, çut into desirable shapes. Property on equipped baking sheets 2 inçhes (5 çm) unçonneçted.
- Heat for 18 to 22 transaçtions (18 to 20 transaçtions for weeny çookies or 20 to 22 transaçtions for whaçking çookies) or until bottoms signaling to university and çenters are set.
- Foreçast çookies to unfriendly slightly on baking sheets for 2 minutes. Using a çonduçtor çake spatula, soul çookies to aççommodate raçks to nerveless çompletely before freezing with jam and sparge with sugars.
- çlear: Makes 16 to 18 transmission to astronomiçal star-shaped shortbread çookies.
