Warm-up Holiday Shortbread Cookies

Name: Warm-up Holiday Shortbread Cookies
Total time: 1500 s
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 cup flour; 1 egg yolk; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1/3 icing sugar; 1/2 cup soft butter and room temperature; 1 tsp milk (not a must); Pinch salt

Bianca Mwale @bianca_eatsy

Zomba, Malawi

I say warm up as I was literally practicing making these before the holidays. I have a big extended family and thought I'd bring them dozens of cookies this Christmas just because I can 🥰. Fingers crossed they'll love them! #baking #cookies #holidays

Quick tip: for soft/chewy cookies, add egg yolks and cornstarch. Little bit goes a long way 😉

Bianca Mwale @bianca_eatsy

Zomba, Malawi

Quick tip: for soft/chewy cookies, add egg yolks and cornstarch. Little bit goes a long way 😉

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Ingredients

25 minutes

2 servings

1 cupflour
1egg yolk
1 tspvanilla extract
1/3icing sugar
1/2 cupsoft butter and room temperature
1 tspmilk (not a must)
Pinchsalt

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Steps

25 minutes

1

Preheat oven to 180°C and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside
2

Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Your cookies won't pipe well if you cheat on this step
3

Add the egg yolk and vanilla to the creamed mixture and combine
4

Whisk together the flour and salt then add to the egg mixture. Beat until no longer crumbly. You can add milk it the mixture is too crumbly but do not add if it already comes together alright
5

Form half of the cookie dough into small balls and arrange them on your cookie sheet. Press down the centre of each ball with your thumb and add a teaspoon of jam (any flavour) to the dent
6

Pipe the other half through a piping bag fitted with a star tip onto the prepared cookie sheet (making sure they are about the same size as the thumbprint cookies for even baking)
7

Bake for 15 minutes or until done. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes then transfer onto a cooling rack
8

Pack them up for gifting to friends and family 😊