How to make shortbread cookies
Hello and welcome to in the kitchen with matt, I am your host Matt Taylor.
Shortbread cookies are on the menu today.
These shortbread cookies are incredibly simple to make, they are packed with flavor, ooo
yeah.
Let's get baking.
For the tools and ingredients we have a hand mixer, if you don't have one of those, I will
provide a link below, you can pick one up, or you can get them at Wal-Mart, target, or
wherever you like.
I got a third cup of sugar, I got a spatula, I have one half cup of softened butter, I
have one-fourth teaspoon of vanilla extract, one cup of flour.
For the glaze we have one-half teaspoon of vanilla extract, we have one quarter cup of
powdered sugar, we have 2 teaspoons of milk, I have a spoon, I have a fork, we have some
powdered sugar to go on topping, I got some scissors, I got a bag to put the glaze in,
and strawberry preserves, and we have a cookie sheet and cooling rack.
First let's go ahead and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. All right let's make our
shortbread dough.
Go ahead and take our flour and put that in there, take our sugar and put that in there,
take our butter, and scoop that in there, and we will add our vanilla extract, and we
will go ahead and take our hand mixer and mix it all together.
Ok it will be all crumbly like this, and then what we do is we just form it together in
a ball with our hands, and it will start coming together like that.
And at this point what I do is just shape it into a ball like this.
And I am going to put this in the refrigerator and let it chill for 15 to 20 minutes.
All right now what we do is take our dough and grab a little bit of it, and form it into
a ball, about one and half inches, about like that size, and you just form it into a ball
in your hand, and then I put it in my hand like this, and smash it down a bit with your
thumb a little bit, and form it, and then push it in with your thumb like that to create
a hole.
Ok, then you just set it down like this.
Ok once we have those all done, this recipe will make about 9 cookies, and then if you
want more just double the recipe.
Take our strawberry preserves and take a little spoon, and you just get some, about a teaspoon
worth, give or take, and you just go ahead and put it right on top.
And now we bake these at 350 degrees, for 15 to 18 minutes, until the edges are a little
bit golden brown.
Once we take them out of the oven we will let them sit on the cookie sheet for about
2 minutes, and then we will transfer them over to the cooling rack.
All right then let's them cool on the rack for about 15 to 20 minutes.
Ok, now we are going to make a little glaze for one of the toppings.
We are going to take our 1 fourth cup of powdered sugar, take our milk, 2 teaspoons of milk,
ok, and our one half teaspoon of vanilla extract, and then with our fork we are going to mix
this together.
If it is a little too runny, this is a little bit runny, just add a little bit more powdered
sugar.
And now what I am going to do, is I am going to just add this to this bag and make a little
piping bag.
And then just take the bag and snip off the tip of the bag.
Another topping that we can do is just come in here with powdered sugar, and go like that.
All right another topping we can do is I just melted some chocolate and put it in this bag,
and snipped off the corner, and made a little piping bag.
Just go ahead and drizzle this on.
All right our shortbread cookies are done.
They look amazing.
They were incredible easy to make, super easy ingredients, if I can do it, you can do it.
Cool thing about this, is it is very versatile, you don't have to any toppings on, if you
don't want to, you don't have to put the preserves, or the powdered sugar or chocolate.
But, you can also dip the whole thing in chocolate; you can do whatever you want, have fun with
these, make different shapes.
Go out there and make some.
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Time for me to dive into one of these, mm mmm mm, looks like I am going to go for this
one, the one with a little bit of glaze on it.
Oh yeah!