Santa's Shortbread Cookies

Name: Santa's Shortbread Cookies
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 60
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons baking powder; 237 milliliters butter, softened; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 177 milliliters powdered sugar; 0 teaspoons salt; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Santa's Shortbread Cookies might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 60. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 49 calories, 0g of protein, and 3g of fat per serving. A mixture of vanillan extract, salt, flour, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add powdered sugar, beating well.

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Powdered Sugar

Butter

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Hand Mixer

Add vanilla, beating until blended.

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Vanilla

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; add to butter mixture, beating at low speed until blended.

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Baking Powder

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Divide cookie dough in half; shape each portion into a 10-inch log. Wrap in wax paper, and chill 8 hours; or freeze up to 6 weeks, and thaw in refrigerator.

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Cookie Dough

Wrap

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Wax Paper

Cut each roll into 1/3-inch-thick slices; place on lightly greased baking sheets.

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Roll

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Baking Sheet

Bake at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned.

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Oven

Transfer to wire racks to cool.

Chocolate-Dipped Shortbread Cookies: Microwave 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate morsels in a glass bowl at HIGH 1 minute. Stir until smooth. Dip half of each cooled cookie into chocolate.

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Semisweet Chocolate Chips

Chocolate

Dip

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Microwave

Bowl

Place on wax paper to set.

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Wax Paper

Peanut Butter-and-Jelly Shortbread Cookies: Stir 1/2 cup peanut butter into dough after adding flour mixture. Make an indentation in center of each cookie slice before baking. Fill each indentation with 1/4 teaspoon jelly.

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Peanut Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Jelly

Chocolate-Mint Shortbread Cookies: Stir 1 (67-ounce) package chocolate mints, chopped, into dough after adding flour mixture. Proceed as directed.

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Shortbread Cookies

Chocolate

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Mint

Toffee Shortbread Cookies: Stir 1 cup almond brickle chips into dough after adding flour mixture. Proceed as directed. (For testing purposes only, we used

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Shortbread Cookies

Almonds

Toffee

French Fries

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Heath Bits o' Brickle chips, found near chocolate chips in the grocery store.)

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Chocolate Chips

French Fries

Pecan-Crusted Shortbread Cookies: Coat #10-inch logs with 3/4 cup finely chopped pecans. Proceed as directed.

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Shortbread Cookies

Pecans

Red Cinnamon Candy Shortbread Cookies: Stir 1/2 cup red cinnamon candies into dough after adding flour mixture. Proceed as directed.

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Red Cinnamon Candy

Shortbread Cookies

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Snowman Shortbread Cookies: Chill dough 2 hours after adding flour mixture. Shape dough into 16 (3/4-inch) balls, 16 (1/2-inch) balls, and 16 (1/4-inch) balls. Use 1 ball of each size to make snowman shapes, leaving no space between balls.

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Shortbread Cookies

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Bake as directed. For eyes, use black gel frosting after cookies cool, or press chocolate mini morsels onto warm cookies. Make scarves using red decorator frosting after cookies cool.

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Chocolate

Frosting