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Maple Shortbread Cookies
Recipe Type:
Cookies,
Christmas Cookie,
Afternoon Tea
Yields: makes many cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose
flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup powdered (confectioners')
sugar
1 tablespoon maple sugar or maple syrup
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Brown sugar or Brownulated sugar for dusting*
Maple Icing (see recipe below), optional
* Brownulated sugar is similar to
regular brown sugar but it's not packed and it's less moist, making it pourable.
Most recipes use brownulated sugar for sprinkling and not baking.
Preparation:
In a large bowl, combine flour and salt; set aside.
In the bowl of your electric mixer, beat the butter approximately 1 minute until smooth and creamy. Add the powdered sugar, maple
sugar or maple syrup; beat approximately 2 minutes or until smooth. Beat in the vanilla extract. Gently add the flour mixture until just incorporated.
Using a rolling pin, flatten the dough into a round shape. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and
refrigerate for a minimum of 1 hour or until well chilled.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place the oven rack in the middle of the oven. Line two (2)
cookie sheets with parchment paper.
On a lightly-floured surface, roll out the dough into a 1/4-inch thick circle. NOTE: To avoid sticking, dust your hands with flour.
Using a lightly-floured cookie cutter, cut the dough into the shapes of your choice. Lightly dust the top of each cookie with brown sugar or Brownulated sugar.
To help the cookies maintain their shapes, place each cookie on the prepared baking sheets and place in
the refrigerator for approximately 15 minutes. Remove from refrigerator and bake approximately 8 to 10 minutes or until the cookies are very lightly
browned. Remove from oven and place on a
wire cooling rack to cool.
When cool, you may add Maple Icing, if desired, to the top of each cookie or serve "as is.
Shortbread cookies may be be stored in an airtight container for one (1) week.
Maple Icing:
1 tablespoon heavy cream
1 teaspoon maple syrup
1/2 cup powdered (confectioners') sugar
In a small saucepan, heat the cream and maple syrup until bubbling; remove from heat. Add the powdered sugar
and stir until smooth (do not allow the mixture to boil).
While still warm, pour or spoon over the top of each cookie.
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Ellen Easton is a lifestyle industry leader, tea and etiquette authority, author of Afternoon Tea~ Tips, Terms and Traditions,
A Tea Party Planner and Tea Travels™ For The Holidays (RED WAGON PRESS), as well as a hospitality, design and retail consultant, whose clients have included The Waldorf=Astoria,
The Plaza, and Lady Mendl’s Tea Salon.
Easton’s family traces their tea roots to the early 1800s, when ancestors first introduced tea plants from India and China to the Colony of Ceylon,
thus building one of the largest and best cultivated teas estates on the island.
REVA PAUL, an internationally acclaimed confectionery artist, hand decorated floral sugars and mints are available by special
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