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Shortbread 3 Ways

To get you into holiday baking mode, we’ve rounded up 3 of our shortbread cookie recipes. Each are made using a classic shortbread recipe but have unique flavour twists to shake things up a little.

First up is Lemon Thyme Shortbread. Lemon zest brightens up the classic buttery sweet taste and a bit of fresh thyme adds a nice herbaceous note. This is classic shortbread taken to the next level.  Recipe here

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Next we have our Brown Sugar Shortbread with Garam Masala. If you aren’t familiar with the spice blend Garam Masala, you must try it! It’s a comforting blend of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg,  cardamom, cumin and pepper that pairs really well with these brown sugar shortbread cookies. Think cinnamon sugar with a bit of an extra kick.  Recipe here

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Asiago Pesto Savoury Shortbread Cookies

When we think of cookies, we usually think of something sweet. During the holiday season we are bombarded by sweet treats.  Chocolate, cookies, candy canes, just to name a few,  and so this week in the delishsis kitchen, we decided to try a little experiment- savoury cookies.

In going with our theme this week of shaking up traditional shortbread cookie recipes, we created this savoury Asiago & Pesto cookie.  It might sound strange- pesto and cheese in a shortbread cookie?- but we promise you’ll love this savoury cheesy cookie that tastes more like gourmet cracker. It will be a welcomed change on the dessert table, at the office or in a cookie swap. We hope you try it, and enjoy it this holiday season!

Again, we’ve used a shortbread cookie recipe from our good old Betty Crocker cookbook and made some modifications.

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1  1/2 cups of finely grated Asiago cheese
  • 1/2 tsp pesto (or if you want a more intense pesto flavour bump it up to 1 tsp)
  • 1  3/4 cups all-purpose flour

 

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 350
  2. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar (with electric mixer on medium or by hand)
  3. Add pesto an cheese and combine
  4. Stir in flour slowly (if dough ends up too crumbly, add more butter)
  5. On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough and stamp out cookies with a cookie cutter
  6. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet
  7. Sprinkle with some extra cheese
  8. Bake 12-14 min or until set
  9. Remove from pan and rest on wire rack