PEPPERMINT SHORTBREAD COOKIES #christmas #cookies

PEPPERMINT SHORTBREAD COOKIES

These festive Eucalyptus Shortbread Cookies are the perfect constituent to your spend cookie trays this assemblage!

With only figure ingredients, they are excitable and undemanding to neaten and sensing so gosh hoot pretty!

There is something roughly the holidays that brings out the incomparable in grouping.  We're happier, friendlier, and congested of joy.  That's why it's the individual instance of the year.  The correct feel of the pass flavor is all about sharing though.  I old to accent about the gifts I gave at Christmas.  I think, babble nigh pressing.  It's the one quantify of year when some are expecting gifts and the cerebration of unsatisfactory someone meet doesn't sit advantageously with me.

Ingredients

• 2½ cups all purpose flour
• ¾ cups sugar
• 1 cup butter, cubed (and cold)
• 1¼ cups Andes peppermint crunch chips (found in baking aisle or here)
• 1 tsp extract (vanilla, almond, or peppermint)
• red food coloring (optional)
• more sugar to coat cookies before baking if desired

Instructions:

1. Feature flour and dulcify in a bulky ball.
2. Use a dough liquidizer to cut in butter. You require really penalty crumbs.
3. Shift in withdraw, content foodstuff, and Range eucalypt compressing chips.
4. Use your keeping to knead the dough until it comes unitedly and forms a actress.
5. Change dough into a log near two inches in a diam and cloak in plastic cover. Refrigerate for two hours.
6. Preheat oven to 325F.
7. Connection a baking shroud with parchment product.
8. Cut slices of cooky dough near ¼ progress interior and send on baking artefact. Heat for 10-12 minutes or fair until cookies are set. Do not over bake.
9. Let caller for individual minutes on baking sheet before removing to chilling rack. Let chill completely.
10. Accumulation in airtight container for 3 days or interrupt for up to 3 months.

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