3-Ingredient Shortbread Cookies (W/14 Easy Variations!)
Recipe: #23804
May 21, 2016
Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Snacks, 5 Ingredients Or Less, Christmas, Picnic, Oven Bake, No Eggs, Vegetarian Kid's Lunches, Flour, Sugar, Butter/Margarine, Kosher Dairy, more
"Taste of Home continues to charm me w/recipes relevant for my style of cooking -- Easy & versatile. This recipe is the best example I can share to prove my case. It was originally published on Pg 29 in the April-May issue of Taste of Home in 1993 & introduced to me via a TOH email by Marlene Hellickson Big Bear City, Calif. I have 1 rule you must follow B4 you make this recipe: Read my NOTE ON VARIATIONS that follows the Prep Steps. Enjoy!"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (48.1 g)
- Calories 243.6
- Total Fat - 15.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 9.7 g
- Cholesterol - 40.6 mg
- Sodium - 135.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 24.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.6 g
- Sugars - 8.4 g
- Protein - 2.3 g
- Calcium - 7.7 mg
- Iron - 0.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 325F.
Step 2
In a lrg bowl, combine flour & sugar. Cut in butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs.
Step 3
Knead dough until smooth, about 6-10 times. Pat dough into an ungreased 15 x 10 x 1 in baking pan. Pierce w/a fork.
Step 4
Bake 25-30 min or until lightly browned. Cut into squares while still warm, then cool fully on a wire rack. (HINT: Scoring the dough w/a sml sharp knife B4 baking will make cutting the squares a lot easier)
NOTE ON VARIATIONS: The beauty of simple recipes is that it's easy to chg the flavor profile w/a 1 tsp measuring spoon & extract flavoring. For example, consider adding 1 tsp of an extract like ... Banana, Butterscotch, Chocolate, Cinnamon, Coconut, Coffee, Lemon, Maple, Mint, Peppermint, Pumpkin Pie Spice, Rum, Strawberry or the ever-popular Vanilla. Want to try 2 flavors at the same time? Just divide the dough & get creative. (ANOTHER HINT: Taste the raw dough B4 preparing to bake. You may want to intensify the flavor w/more extract
Tips
- No special items are required