Gifts from my Heart, Gifts from my Kitchen #6 - Magical Shortbread Cookies
This will be our last baking session for Gifts from my Heart, Gifts from my Kitchen, magical Shortbread Cookies done many ways; deliciously crunchy and a welcome gift for family or friends!
I had to hide it from myself or there'd be none left to make up into gifts for the Christmas tree ;)
When I was a little girl I would stand on the kitchen chair and ask my Granny for the Decipe, I could not even read at that stage, but Gran said I would look at that recipe and ask for the usual ingredients; flour, sugar, butter, eggs and milk.
So you can gather that I've always loved baking!
The recipe I'm sharing with you today is one that I often made when my sons were growing up, one batch dough with only three ingredients - Butter, Self-raising Flour & Icing Sugar (Confectioner's Sugar) but can be magically turned into many different variations with simple additions.
The dough gets rolled into long sausage shapes and rolled in anything from Sprinkles, Coconut, Sesame Seeds, Crushed Nuts, Choc vermicelli or anything else your heart desires:) These rolls are placed in the refrigerator to harden, taken out, sliced and popped into the oven for a magical batch of instant homemade cookies!
Basic Recipe
- 1,5 kg Self-raising flour
- 1 kg Butter softened
- 500 gram Icing Sugar
Sift dry ingredients together and mix in food mixer to a smooth dough
Shape into long sausage shapes & roll in sprinkles, coconut, choc vermicelli, sesame seeds, crushed nuts etc etc
Reserve a little of the dough and knead in crushed pecan nuts, form little balls, flatten slightly and bake
Hide choc chips inside some of your nutty cookie dough or top with a glacé cherry
Cut rolls into biscuits with a sharp knife and place on baking pan
Sprinkles
Sesame Seed
Bake in 160C fan (170C regular) oven till straw coloured
Gorgeously short Shortbread Cookies!
A quick look for all the busy people.
Hope you've enjoyed baking with me today, till next time for Gifts from my Heart, Gifts from my Kitchen #7 when we really will magically turn ordinary wine into Ouma Lily's Herbal Tonic Wine ;)
LINKS TO THIS SERIES
1. Gifts from my Heart, Gifts from my Kitchen #1 - Drunken Fruit
2. Gifts from my Heart, Gifts from my Kitchen #2 - Passionfruit Curd & Apricot Mustard
4. Gifts from my Heart, Gifts from my Kitchen #4 - Indulgent Gift Hampers
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Jeeze Lizelle. You have just completely outdone yourself with this whole series and these are no exception.
My mother made these when I was younger. Mostly she just made them plain and we ate them by the gallon. Sooooo goood.
Glad it brought back some good memories @bigtom13, so you know just how good they are :) Thank you for your lovely feedback and support :)
Oh, dear Lord, woman, what have you done?? If Christmas lasted all year long I'd never be able to get off your blog.
Should I say I'm sorry but I'm not ;);) I'm so glad you're enjoying the Christmas gifts posts! Thank you for the great support :)
My goodness @lizelle, the gifts just keep on coming! You are really amazing, to be your friend or neighbor...what wonderful gifts! Love the jars! What a great idea, cute so useful after the cookies are gone :)
Thank you for your lovely comments @ birdsinparadise! Some are coffee bottles, it takes a little while to get the coffee flavour out, but really worthwhile as one can use it for storing anything else afterwards!
Oh my, those look so delicious!! I love those simple butter cookies. I sometimes add peanut butter instead of some part of butter and they come out so good too :)
I would so happy to receive a homemade gift like that :)
Happy Christmas! :)
Thank you so much @ewkaw, that sounds like a good and healthier variation, will certainly try that:)
A very happy Christmas to you as well :)
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My friend a long time without greeting you, I go to wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy Christmas to the Grandmother, although I do not write you always remember them with a lot of love, thanks for your support during this 2018
Cook a sweet papaya green, typical in these days of Christmas in Venezuela, go through my blog to see the recipe
Ah thank you @jennimorillo, so lovely hearing from you again, your papaya sweet treat looks great, wish I could taste it!
Thank you for your support as well, I've been so busy cooking but always remember my friend from Venezuela, praying 2019 will be a very good year for you xxx
Thanks for your wishes!
I was going to say Wow, but @tattoodjay beat me to it Lady Lizelle. Some great stuff straight from your heart here! Blessings!
Thank you so much for your lovely comments @papilloncharity:)
Looks great and I must say my girls are baking cookies on Saturday so they will get a look at this post before then. Maybe I will end up with some Lizelle cookies this holiday season thanks this post.
I do hope they do, will be a huge honour for me :)
Enjoy the cookies
Shortie just checked it out and said " no problem" I just need to pick up the sprinkles and do the metric conversions, we already have pecans from our tree too. I may make her do the metric though, good math lesson but she doesn't that is coming.
Oh that's great Mr Papper, just please tell Shortie to use a very thin knife when cutting the cookies and to enjoy! Do you use pounds and ounces then?
Yes, we are pounds and ounces and Fahrenheit degrees. I will tell her about the thin knife, thanks for that tip.
This recipe is so simple I'd imagine you could just do it by percentages / ratios. 3 parts flour / 2 parts butter / 1 part powdered sugar ... and make it in any size batch you want. (1 1/2 c flour, 1 c butter 1/2 c powdered sugar as the base.) Doesn't that about say it, @lizelle?
(P.S. ---> Egad, but they're rich!!)
That makes sense, I didn't look at that and since cookie making got moved back a day it might very well end up being how it gets done. Thanks.
WOw those all look so so good and for sure are baked from and gifts from the heart
Thanks for your support @tattoodjay, they were really good indeed!
I bet they didnt last long :)
I managed to not touch those in the bottles, a big achievement for me;)
Well done I am not sure I could have managed that LOL
Yummy! Lots of great things to try - thank you!
Thank you so much for your lovely feedback and support :)