Sally's Christmas Shortbread

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 cup dark brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons orange zest
  • 2 tablespoons ground ginger
  • 3/4 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • confectioners' sugar

Preparation

Step 1


Beat butter, brown sugar, orange zest, ginger and cloves until fluffy.

Stir in baking soda and flour.

Divide dough in half.

Press into (2) 8" round un-greased baking pans.

Bake in a 350 degree farenheit oven for 25 minutes or until the tops are dry and cracked, and the edges are slightly higher than the center.

Cool in the pans for 5 minutes.

Cut into wedges.

Prick each wedge with the tines of a fork.

Cool and dust with confectioner's sugar.

Store tightly covered.