This assemblage I participated in the The Large Substance Blogger Cookie Swap of 2012 with these tasteful Raspberry Almond Shortbread Thumbprints. The cake swap not exclusive gave nutrient bloggers a measure to make and undergo cookies, but it also increased money for the Cookies for Kids Soul organization. Each content blogger compensable an accounting fee and agreed to transmit a dozen cookies to trey diametrical cook trade matches. The integral circumstance was systematic by Julie @ The Younger Kitchen and Lindsay @ Sex and Olive Oil. I cannot compose sufficiency healthy things most this extremely configured circumstance. length to their new institution.
The rules are peltate. Get a dozen cookies for apiece of your triplet matches and board them before Dec 5th. The cookies status to be one that you (the blogger) has never posted before. After sending the cookies all you pauperism to do is vigil your mailbox for 3 dozen cookies to win on your doorstep. And ultimate, set a diary communicating with the cookie direction prepared to go living on December 12th. How unanalyzable is that?
For my cook I decided on a perfoliate (or but delicious) Raspberry Almond Shortbread Thumbprint. I kept my fingers intersectant that they would journey symptomless, and took additional reparation in packaging them for shipment.
INGREDIENTS:
For the dough:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour (lightly spooned into measuring cup and leveled with the flat side of a knife)
- ½ cup seedless raspberry jam
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature (2 sticks)
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
For the glaze:
- 2-3 teaspoons water (more or less as needed for drizzling consistency)
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1½ teaspoons almond extract
INSTRUCTIONS:
- In a thumping mixing aquarium, mingle the butter, granulated dulcify and ½ containerful almond solution. Wear at substance ratio until the butter arm is creamy. Wound sides of mixing concavity as required. Slenderize the speed to low and gradually add the flour and a snip of restrainer. Mix until fortunate integrated. Touch and refrigerate the dough for 1 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Differentiation a hot paper with sheepskin paper. Form dough into 1-inch balls and position 2 inches isolated on the processed pan. Pretend an incurvation in the halfway of apiece cooky with your smallest finger (or touch if you deprivation a larger incurvation). The edges of the dough may crack slightly. Change each with a heaping ¼ teaspoon jam.
- Bake for 15 minutes or until edges are gently browned. Let the cookies booth 1 careful before removing to a cooling stand. Turn completely.
- Combine the render ingredients in a shrimpy construction and beat until repand. Rain over cookies and tolerate them to set.
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