Spiced Shortbread Cookies

By carvalhohm

Ingredients

• Spiced Shortbread Cookie Mix:
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar

Details

Servings 4

Preparation

Step 1

Spice Shortbread Cookie Mix:
Sift flour, salt and spices together in mixing bowl. Transfer mixture to 1 quart wide mouth jar.

Place sugar into small plastic food storage bag and seal. Add bag to jar. Seal jar.

Decorate jar and attach gift tag/recipe card as follows:

Spiced Shortbread Cookies:
3/4 pound (3 sticks) unsalted butter at room temperature
1 jar Spiced Shortbread Cookie Mix

Beat butter on medium high speed in large mixing bowl until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add sugar from jar mix and cream together well.

Add flour mixture from jar mix in three batches, blending well after each addition.

Sprinkle bottom of 9x13-inch baking pan with flour. Transfer dough to pan. Using fingertips, press dough evenly into pan. Wit a ruler, score dough into bars 1 1/4x2 1/8 inches. Pierce each bar on diagonal with fork in two places. Cover pan with plastic wrap and chill at least 2 hours.

Adjust racks to upper and lower thirds of oven. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or nonstick liners. Cut through score lines of bars. Transfer bars to baking sheets, leaving at least 2 inches between bars.

Bake for 15 minutes. Switch baking sheets on racks. Bake another 15 to 20 minutes or until cookies are pale and set.

Cool on racks. Store in airtight container between sheets of waxed paper at cool room temperature for up to a week. Freeze for longer storage.