I am a shortbread nut. Seriously. Which is strange because there's been past random recipes where I've cut the servings in half because of all the butter and then I have no qualms about making shortbread or owning a cookbook called "The Great Big Butter Cookbook" (no lie, check it out for yourself.). Clearly, I am a conflicted fan of butter.
Today's recipe for the Sweet Melissa Sundays blog group was picked by Lara of The Lab (thanks, Lara!) and it is good. Overall, easy to assemble although my first attempt got messed up because I was yakking on the phone with my sister and over measured the butter which I didn't find out until after the cookies had baked into a crumbly puddle of flour. But I, when faced with homemade shortbread, was not to be thwarted so I hung up, remeasured and got a very decent dough by hand because I didn't want to have to wash the dishes in order to use the food processor.
The only major changes I made was to pat the cookies into my mini pans so I could try to pull off shortbread slices and to sprinkle the tops with my penzy's cocoa mix to give it a bit of a chocolate kick. And considering my tendency to procrastinate on baking until the last minute, I actually made a big change by making the recipe in advance...I feel like I've made a culinary breakthrough.Although I only got one shortbread wedge out of the pans...the two others weren't having any of it and refused to come out of the pan but that might have been the pan and not the recipe.
But I gotta say...it was yummy. Loved it!
Shortbread is a take it or leave it thing for me unfortunately...but butter is to die for ;) I have been known to eat butter on it's own (hence the perpetual diet). Happy Easter!
ReplyDeleteSounds like mixed results! I love shortbread, both sweet and savory. Love the addition of chocolate to the recipe!
ReplyDeleteI love the close up of your cookie, man does it look delicious! Im glad you enjoyed this recipe. I thought it was super easy and pretty good!
ReplyDeleteShortbread is a huge weakness for me! congratulations on your culinary breakthrough! lol.
ReplyDeleteYou are making a lot of culinary breakthroughs I think! I love shortbread, too, and this looks like an amazing cookie, I must say!
ReplyDeleteLove what you did with these cookies - I'm not a fan of nuts, but chocolate makes everything better :) Glad you enjoyed the flavor, especially since you're such a big fan of shortbread!
ReplyDeleteLove the changes you made with these! They look yummy!
ReplyDeleteThese cookies must be terrific! Shortbread is highly enjoyable!
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter!
Cheers,
Rosa
Never would have thought about baking these in a pan. Glad you enjoyed them!
ReplyDeleteOooo, that looks delicious!! Great job on being creative with the recipe. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for baking with me this week! I love shortbread, because they are so lightly sweet. These are not what I was raised with as traditional shortbread, but I love how you pressed them to do slices!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea to sprinkle them with cocoa! Mine were a little problematic but they were delicious.
ReplyDeleteWow creative! I like the whole cocoa thing!
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas for changing the recipe - the cocoa looks yum! These were yummy but definitely not the traditional shortbread, which could explain the pan issues?? R x
ReplyDeleteHow fun, you did some fun changes to the recipe! It looks great!!
ReplyDeleteYou turned this into one good looking cookie.
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