Wed 16 Dec 2009
Whip it Good
Posted by Amanda under Advent, Food, Growing, Knitting
[6] Comments
This is my second Christmas Baking endeavor this year. Whipped Shortbread!
I grew up thinking that this was the only shortbread. Little did I know that this is not a customary Christmas recipe. I’m not a big fan of maraschino cherries but they are growing on me after 20+ years. Feast your eyes upon these lovely babies!
Here is the recipe so you don’t have to simply drool over your keyboard but you can get right to work on creating these melt-in-your-mouth treats.
Whipped Shortbread
1 cup corn starch
1 cup icing sugar
2 cups flour + 2 Tbsp
1 3/4 cup butter
1 cup icing sugar
2 cups flour + 2 Tbsp
1 3/4 cup butter
Sift dry ingredients together. Add gradually to whipped butter. Drop by spoon fulls onto cookie sheet. Decorate with maraschino cherry bits. Bake at 300F for 20 minutes.
Now doesn’t that sound easy?
And for a small hint of what’s coming…
December is truckin’ right along and advent is arming me with enough crafty stuff to keep me busy long into Winter.
Plus! I got my first seed catalogue in the mail this week. Is it already that time? Have you thought about your Spring Garden yet?
December 16th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Bwa ha ha ha…too funny…Spring garden…ha ha ha…
Seriously girl, here in snow covered Edmonton we just hope we stay sane until Spring time, let alone think about green things growing in our garden.
December 16th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
LOL! LOVE your cookies. LOVE your recipe, yum…
About the spring garden…. All I have thought is, “only 2 full months left until we can switch BACK to daylight savings time!”
I gave a vegetable garden a thought the other day, and then had to excuse it because we may not be around enough to tend to it properly come the spring and summer of 2010.
December 16th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Are you bringing some of these cookies with you on Saturday, sweet daughter?
December 16th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
why oh why didn’t i stay just a little bit longer and sample these delectable treats? i saw them going on the cookie sheets but I wasn’t there for the coming off the cookie sheets. they are my favorite type of shortbread followed extremely closely by my mom’s decorated snow people short breads with belly buttons.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Holly: Perhaps in snow covered Edmonton, it would be best to grow things potted inside!
Karina: Yes I understand your situation! Glad you like the recipe.
Mom: Yes I’m bringing cookies. Yum!
Danielle: Sad you didn’t get to taste one. I still have lots so I’ll see about getting you a few when you come back to the island. I like anything with belly buttons!
December 20th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
This sounds similar to to my aunt’s recipe – a favourite and very special to make in her memory now. I’m not sure there’s corn starch in her recipe…?
I CAN’T WAIT to bake up a storm with my mom this week! Will think of you doing the same