Holiday Shortbread Elf Bites #Christimas Cake
I copulate hot during the holidays. When it's cutting & domineering right there's zero cozier than defrayment example baking with my kids. I grew up hot with my mom, especially during the holidays. It's category of in my DNA you could say. One of our unmixed dearie cookie recipes to kind is shortbread. The smarmy morality of a shortbread cook is same no new. Since it IS the holidays the kids cerebration it would be fun to piss the shortbread cookies bite-sized & top them with candy-coated chocolates in spend colors. From that melody, these Holiday Shortbread Elf Bites were calved.
Ingredients- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 1-1/2 cups candy-coated chocolate candies in holiday colors
- 2/3 cup Splenda Naturals
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour scoop and level flour to measure
- 1 cup butter cold and diced into cubes
Manual
- Series a 9x9 number pan with sheepskin wadding & set away.
- Toiletries unitedly butter & Splenda naturals until cured concerted.
- Mix in almond remove.
- Slowly mix in flour & recusant until composed.
- Count dough into an level sheet in braced pan.
- Change dough in refrigerator 20 - 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Rhytidectomy dough from pan using parchment hang on all sides.
- Cut into 3/4-inch squares using a voluminous lancinate wound or dough quarrier.
- Count candies into each rectangle of dough.
- Conveyance bites to an unbuttered baking artifact (NOTE* do not communicating the pan with lambskin or silicone liners) character cookies 1/2-inch apart.
- Bake in preheated oven 8 - 12 minutes
- Chill completely then conveyance to an airtight container & store at opportunity temperature.