Cherry Almond Shortbread Middle Cookies | Valentine's 24-Hour Interval Cookies

This is my outset fourth dimension making shortbread cookies. I had never actually had much interest... equally you lot know, Sugar Cookies are my specialty. I thought, what could live amend than a Sugar Cookie? After mowing through a box of Girl Scout Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies, I got addicted to that crumbly, sandy texture of shortbread. Combine that with, Valentine's Day too a craving for the Cherry Almond Cupcakes I made final Spring... boom, Cherry Almond Shortbread Heart Cookies are born!

These non to sweet, crumbly, buttery, sophisticated cookies are the perfect Adult cookie. They convey a fragile texture too flavour that overly decadent cookies (think double chocolate chunk...) can't match. The add-on of dried cherries gives a touching on or cherry too tartness that is magical! And similar almost expert things inwards life, they are simple. Only a duo of ingredients. No leavening, no eggs. Just a classic too elementary cookie.

Package these inwards cellophane bags (you tin plough over the sack purchase hither inwards my online store) alongside a ribbon too plough over them to your lady friends or serve them alongside java for dessert at your side yesteryear side span party. They are 'that' sort of cookie.

Cherry Almond Shortbread
classic cookies alongside a cherry twist

3/4 pound unsalted butter, room temperature
i loving cup sugar
i teaspoon vanilla extract
i teaspoon almond extract
iii 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
i 1/2 cups minor diced dried cherries

In a mixer, cream together butter too saccharide for iii minutes. Add vanilla too almond. Slowly stir inwards flour too salt. Mix until mixture begins to come upwardly together into a ball. Add diced cherries. Dump the mixture onto a floured surface too shape into a disk. Wrap inwards plastic twine too chill for xx minutes (if you lot convey time).

Roll out the dough to 1/4 inch (I similar them thick) too cutting into shapes. Bake at 350 degrees on a silpat lined baking canvas for 18-20 minutes, until the edges chocolate-brown only slightly.