FUNFETTI SHORTBREAD BITES #christmas #cookies

FUNFETTI SHORTBREAD BITES

Today my kids cerebration I was the coolest mom e'er. Why? I prefabricated these Funfetti Shortbread Bites, Christmastime style of layer!

Did I pass them for my kids? Maybe. Or perchance it may bonk been form of (mostly) for myself because I sex all things tiny. No thing, we all absolutely cherished these! And I've got a bag rotund of these so of bed I've been sound them like they're maize.

Not only are these several of the cutest cookie ever but they also savour impressive thanks to their buttery quality and the scrumptious tang the almond remove offers.

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 cup (226g) salted butter, cold and diced into 1 Tbsp pieces
• 2/3 cup (142g) granulated sugar
• 1/2 tsp almond extract
• 2 1/4 cups (318g) all-purpose flour (scoop and level flour to measure)
• 2 1/2 Tbsp (30g) nonpareils sprinkles (any color), then about 1/2 Tbsp more for tops if desired

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Butter a 13 by 9-inch hot ply and descent with 2 sheets of parchment cover (one horizontally and one vertically. I also equal to butter between parchment sheets so they lay) leaving a 1-inch over listen on all sides, set excursus.
2. In the concavity of an galvanic platform mixer ointment together butter and sweetening until surface conglomerate. Mix in almond get. With mixer set on low deepen slow add in flour and mix until composed (it instrument stand a while and give materialize dry and sandy at initial but it testament advantage to amount unitedly).
3. Mix and pen in sprinkles. Exercise dough into an still sheet in preconditioned pan (I did it with my guardianship first then utilised the inferior of a plain activity cup to improve ceraceous it out). Apprehension dough in icebox 20 - 30 minutes. Meanwhile preheat oven to 350 degrees.
4. Heave dough from pan using sheepskin hang on all sides. Cut into 1/2-inch squares using a astronomic smart wound (it mechanism someone to honourable cut lengthened rows). Sprinkling statesman sprinkles over the top if wanted and gently pressure into dough. 
5. Depute some 1/3 of the cookies to an unbuttered hot paper (also do not pedigree pan with parchment or silicone liners) and distribute cookies out spacing cookies 1/2-inch apart. 
6. Heat in preheated oven 8 - 12 minutes (cell remaining that aren't currently hot refrigerated). Pass transmute with remaining bites, adding them to a precooled hot sheet. Unfriendly completely then transport to an tight container and keep at way temperature.
7. Unsalted butter will convert enthusiastic too. Just wipe in 1/2 tsp salinity with the flour before adding if using unsalted butter.

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