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Vanilla Bean Spritz Shortbread

Anna Olson's piped vanilla bean shortbread cookies on a parchment-lined tray
Prep Time
30 min
Cook Time
25 min

These delicious shortbread cookies are made to look beautiful and taste absolutely lovely. They make a lovely base cookie to use in other recipes, or are enjoyable on their own for fans of vanilla. These cookies will store for about a week in an airtight container.

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ingredients

1 ¼
cup unsalted butter at room temperature
1
cup icing sugar, sifted
1 ½
tsp vanilla bean paste (or extract, if paste is not available)
1 ½
cup all-purpose flour
cup cornstarch
¼
tsp salt
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directions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 325°F and line 2 baking trays with parchment paper.

Step 2

Beat the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in the vanilla bean paste (or extract). It’s an important step to beat the butter and sugar well together when making shortbread – this ensures the shortbread will hold together and when you take a bite it will ‘snap’ and then melt away.

Step 3

In a separate bowl, sift the flour, cornstarch and salt and add to the butter, mixing until blended and soft. Spoon the dough into a piping bag fitted with a large star tip (or into a cookie press). Pipe cookies about 1 ½-inches across onto the prepared baking trays and leaving an inch between each cookie. If you want a flatter cookie that spreads, bake right away. For a cookie that sits up and holds its shape, chill the piped unbaked cookies for 15 minutes before baking. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the cookies just begin to brown lightly on the bottom. Cool the cookies on the trays before storing in an airtight container.

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