Catherine Love~ Ramblings from my Heart and Home

Cookie Swap Recipe- Scotch Shortbread

This is a super simple 3 ingredient recipe.  They are my husband's favorite cookies, too. 

SCOTCH SHORTBREAD

1 cup butter

2 cups flour

1/2 cup sugar

Preheat oven to 300.  Mix ingredients with pastry blender until crumbly.  Work with hands until it makes a large lump.  Press flat into a 9x9 pan, about 1/2" thick.  Prick with a fork thoroughly.  Bake for 50-60 minutes until set and very pale gold.  Cut while warm into 36 squares.  Enjoy!

*As usual, I tweaked the recipe just a tad by using Cane Juice Crystals and Organic Unbleached flour.  Next time I'm going to use at least 1/2 whole wheat flour. 

This simple recipe in my mind just begs to be dressed up a bit for Christmas!  Perhaps with a drizzle of melted chocolate, or by adding some finely ground nuts and/or dried cranberries to the dough, maybe a bit of dried lavender, lemony herbs and a drizzle of lemon glaze...  Yum!

 This recipe comes from the Focus on Africa Cookbook which was a fundraiser of Assiniboia/Charleswood Community Church to help the women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa.  The cookbook, which we got at World Hunger Relief in Waco, Texas was an early birthday present from my husband. 

Hope you enjoy the cookies! 

What a great recipe

4:10 PM, Tuesday, November 28, 2006 .. Posted by Amy Beth

Thanks for sharing.

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