Italian Shortcrust Cookies
From eastcoaster 8 years ago
- 1-1/2-2 hours to make
- Serves 4 dozen
My Aunt gave me this family recipe many years ago. It's a great dunking cookie that goes well with hot chocolate, coffee or tea. Take a bit of time but well worth it.
Ingredients
- 3-1/2 cups of AP flour shopping list
- 1 cup white sugar shopping list
- pinch of salt shopping list
- 4 eggs shopping list
- grated peel of 1 medium lemon shopping list
- 3/4 plus 2 tbsp. butter(softened) shopping list
- icing sugar for dusting(also known as confectioners sugar) shopping list
How to make it
- Heat oven to 375F
- Sift the flour into a large bowl and make a well in the center
- Add in sugar, salt, eggs,grated lemon peel and softened butter
- Mix together with a wooden spoon until the ingredients are well blended
- Knead the mixture thoroughly until smooth and pliable and shape into a ball
- Cover and put into the fridge for 1 hour
- On a floured board roll out the pastry a third at a time to about 1/4 inch thick
- Cut with cookie cutters into what shape you like
- Place the cookies 1/2 inch apart on a greased cookie sheet
- Parchment paper works well also
- Bake for 15 minutes or until light brown
- When done cool and dust with icing sugar.
- I put 4 doz. but it depends how big or small you shape them.I use Earth Balance Spread instead of butter(lactose intolerant) and it works very well.
The Rating
Reviewed by 2 people-
These were so easy and so much fun to cutout and decorate with the kids :) Added a review in the IMI II ---------------> Italian Shortcrust Coo...more
mommyluvs2cook
in Santa Fe loved it
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Made them for Christmas, 2016. I cut them into stars and topped with a lemon glaze. The kids devoured them, it was their favorite cookie on the tray!
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Cosmicmother
in Western loved it
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Yum! I love these cookies!! I first made your recipe a couple of years ago, and they are my favorite roll out cookie! They are crispy on the outside, tender and chewy inside and bake up perfectly so that you could decorate the tops if you wished. I l...more
Cosmicmother
in Western loved it
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