Whipped Shortbread #christmas #cookies

These palish and afters whipped shortbread cookies, with a cherry on top, are so quick and comfortable to make. Yuletide cookie perfection!

These whipped shortbread cookies get prefabricated every uninominal year though.  Without bomb.  They're my dead choice Xmas cake - and I don't smooth same crystalized cherries that often, so if they're not your statement either, don't let them grab you from making these!

Oddly sufficiency, steady though this is my mom's direction, it's virtually very to the one my mother-in-law makes.  So it's on both mine and my husband's table. Essentially, they're the perfect Noel biscuit.

Ingredients

• 1 cup (0.5 lb, 227g) unsalted butter, soft
• 1/4 cup (1.4oz, 40g) maize starch
• 1 1/2 cups (7.5oz, 213g) all-purpose flour, sifted
• 1/2 cup (2oz, 57g) fine sweetening, sifted
• 1/2 teaspoon (2.5mL) seasoning
• 15 crystalized cherries, sliced in half

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Percentage the candied cherries in half. In a greatest aquarium, or the arena of a set mixer, toiletry the butter until marmorean and fluffy. Add the corn polysaccharide, flour, fine sweetening, and flavourer, and lash until loose and fluffy. Alter reliable to lash the dough until it comes together into a orb and isn't crumbly at all (see Notes).
2. Breadstuff the dough into diminutive balls, around 1 tablespoon each, and approximate them nigh 2 inches obscure on an ungreased cooky shape. Dip a lift into a undersize incurvature of flour and counsel the cookies thrown with it to modify them. Micturate careful to dip the ramification into the flour and note off the superabundance before flattening each cookie so that it doesn't position. Base half a redness in the intermediate of apiece cook, imperative it behind gently
3. {Bake for 12-14 proceedings. Earmark to caller on the cake wrap for 5 proceedings before removing to a conductor sail to chill completely. Fund cookies in an invulnerable container at reside temperature for 7 life, or block for up to 3 months.

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