Shortbread Hammer Placecards

Name: Shortbread Hammer Placecards
Prep time: 1 h 5 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 454 grams confectioners sugar; 59 milliliters corn syrup; 828 milliliters all-purpose flour, plus more, for dusting; 59 milliliters freshly squeezed lemon juice; 0 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters sugar, plus extra, for sprinkling; 340 grams unsalted butter at room temperature; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

The recipe Shortbread Hammer Placecards can be made in around 1 hour and 5 minutes. For 27 cents per serving, you get a dessert that serves 24. One serving contains 285 calories, 2g of protein, and 12g of fat. It is a good option if you're following a lacto ovo vegetarian diet. Head to the store and pick up confectioners' sugar, salt, flour, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

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Oven

In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix together the butter and 1 cup of sugar on low speed until they are just combined.

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Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add the vanilla. In a medium bowl, sift together the flour and salt, then add them to the butter-and-sugar mixture.

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Vanilla

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Bowl

Mix on low speed until the dough starts to come together. Dump onto a surface dusted with flour and shape into a flat disk. Wrap in plastic and chill for 30 minutes.

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Dough

All Purpose Flour

Wrap

Roll the dough 1/2-inch thick and cut with a 4 1/2-inch hammer-shaped cutter.

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Dough

Roll

Place the hammer cookies on an ungreased baking sheet and sprinkle with sugar.

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Sugar

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Baking Sheet

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the edges begin to brown. Allow to cool to room temperature.

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Oven

For the icing, combine the confectioners' sugar and corn syrup in a bowl with a wire whisk until it is a thick paste. Gradually add enough lemon juice until the mixture is a good consistency for piping.

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Powdered Sugar

Lemon Juice

Corn Syrup

Icing

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Whisk

Bowl

With an extra fine pastry tip, pipe individual names on the hammer cookies.

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Let the icing set before serving.

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Icing

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Servings:

454grams

confectioners' sugar 59milliliters

corn syrup 828milliliters

all-purpose flour, plus more, for dusting 59milliliters

freshly squeezed lemon juice 0teaspoons

salt 237milliliters

sugar, plus extra, for sprinkling 340grams

unsalted butter at room temperature 1teaspoon

pure vanilla extract

Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Madeira, Prosecco

Shortbread Cookies works really well with Cream Sherry, Madeira, and Prosecco. Sweet bubbly Prosecco doesn't overwhelm simple sugar or shortbread cookies, a sweet cream sherry complements spiced cookies, and madeira's nutty notes match cookies with nuts perfectly. You could try NV Johnson Estate Cream Sherry. Reviewers quite like it with a 5 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 19 dollars per bottle.

NV Johnson Estate Cream Sherry

Very aromatic with notes of hazelnut, vanilla, and a touch of oak followed by sweet raisins and a touch of yeast. Clean lasting finish. Good now but will reward those allow it to age"". A favorite pre-prandial beverage. Consider it with nuts before dinner as an aperitif, or after dinner with dessert, especially chocolates and fruit-based desserts. Also wonderful on cold afternoons, served with biscotti to dip in ""Italian-style"". "