Raspberry Window Shortbread
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup cold unsalted butter, cubed
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- About 4 tbsp. raspberry preserves
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, divided
- 2 1/2 teaspoons milk
- 1/2 cup large sparkle sugar (optional)
- Preheat oven to 325u0b0. Put flour, butter, granulated sugar, and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix on low speed to blend, then increase to medium and mix until dough is no longer crumbly and just comes together.
- Form dough into a disk and chill 30 minutes. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out dough until 1/8 in. thick. Use a selection of 1 1/2-in. decorative cutters to cut as many shapes as you can, making sure you have an equal number of each shape to form a top and bottom and rerolling scraps as needed. Arrange cookies 1 in. apart on baking sheets. Use a variety of smaller cutters to remove center from half of cookies (the tops). Chill on sheets 15 minutes.
- Bake until light golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes.
- When cool, spread each whole cookie with about 1/2 tsp. jam. Sprinkle half of cut-out tops evenly with 1/2 cup powdered sugar. Mix remaining 1 cup powdered sugar with milk to thin, then dip tops of remaining cut-out tops with glaze. If you like, dip some glazed tops into sparkle sugar. Set all tops on jam-topped bottoms.
- Note: Nutritional analysis is per cookie.
flour, cold unsalted butter, granulated sugar, salt, raspberry preserves, powdered sugar, milk, sugar
Taken from www.myrecipes.com/recipe/raspberry-window-shortbread (may not work)