Dashing Through the Dough: Candy-Cane Sprinkled Shortbread Cookies

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The merry blob of cookie dough in my refrigerator just received a festive festooning of peppermint sprinkles. And the Fixin’ Leeks and Leeks Team approves.

To make the merriest of shortbread cookies, I used Ina Garten’s recipe. I shaped the cookies using a cookie dough scoop, placing them on a cookie sheet, and lightly flattening them into disks. Ina Garten’s recipe tells you to mix with a food processor, but I used a beater for the butter and sugar and then mixed in the flour/salt with my hands to form the dough. I also skipped the “dip in melted chocolate” step so that I could whack a few candy canes over the head with a rolling pin instead. (I sprinkled the candy cane pieces onto the cookies before baking.)

Results: These cookies are rich and buttery, with just a hint of peppermint.

Serve them with any one, or a combination, of the following:

–A holiday parade

–A sparkly sweater

–A snow globe featuring an orca that’s tipping a Washington state ferry over

–Twelve dancers dancing

–A bucket of champagne

–Dasher and Prancer

–Tickets to Hawaii

Your Turn: What’s baking at your house? (Your answer doesn’t have to be holiday or orca-related 🙂 )

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21 thoughts on “Dashing Through the Dough: Candy-Cane Sprinkled Shortbread Cookies”

  6. As we have established, me not baking is better for the Christmas spirit, and everyone’s safety! But those cookies look so delicious and even harmless, I might give cookie-baking a try once I get better! For now, they look great and very cheery! Wishing the entire team a great December, because no need to wait for the end of the month for that holiday cheer, right?

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