Shortbread with Flowers

Difficulty:
1/5

Yield: 15-20 cookies

Ingredients:

  • ¾ cup (180 ml) butter, room temperature
  • ½ cup (120 ml) icing sugar
  • 1 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla
  • ½ teaspoon (2.5 ml) rosewater
  • 1 ½ cups (350 ml) flour
  • 3 tablespoons (45 ml) cornstarch
  • 1 egg white, whisked
  • 15-20 edible flowers (more if you are decorating with more than one per cookie)
  • White sugar, for sprinkling

 

Method:

Let’s get baking!

In a bowl, cream together butter and icing sugar in a bowl.

Add vanilla and rosewater and mix in.

In a separate bowl, sift together flour and cornstarch.

Gradually, add flour mixture to butter mixture.

Turn out onto floured countertop.

Form into a large disc.

Cover with plastic wrap.

Refrigerate for a few hours.

Remove from fridge and roll out into a large circle on floured surface.

Cut into desired shapes using cookie cutters.

Bake in oven at 350 F (175 C) for 13 minutes.

Let cool. Lower oven temperature to 325 F (165 C).

Brush tops of cookies lightly with whisked egg white.

Carefully place flower on top.

Brush top of flower with egg white.

Sprinkle with white sugar.

Repeat.

Bake 3-5 minutes more.

Remove from oven and let cool.

 

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