Ingredients

How to make it

  • Cream butter, cream cheese and icing sugar until fluffy.
  • Beat in egg, vanilla and lemon extract.
  • Stir flours into the butter mixture until well blended.
  • Fold in cherries by hand.
  • Divide dough into three logs, about 1" across.
  • Wrap in plastic and refrigerate at least 12 hours (alternately, wrap plactic-covered logs with foil and freeze up to 3 months).
  • Preheat oven to 325 F. Line a baking tray with parchment or a Silpat (do not grease - buy the parchment, you'll want it!).
  • Cut 1/8" thick slices of the cookie dough, place on sheets 1" apart.
  • Bake 8 minutes (or frozen dough for 12), until barely coloured.
  • Cool completely on sheets.
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  • jo_jo_ba 14 years ago
    That's great to know that swap works! I'm lucky that our bulk store always has the candied ones in stock!
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  • cookingupasnowstorm 14 years ago
    I made this last Christmas, and am coming back for more... these are so delicious, and surprisingly simple to make. I was so eager to bake them, but did not have glace cherries on hand, so i substituted with cherries from a can of cherry pie filling. Squeezed and patted them dry. Perfection !! Everybody loved these shortbreads. So I'm back for the recipe again. Thanks! It's true, as they are saying, you really should have a cooking show, on The Food Network !
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    " It was excellent "
    lor ate it and said...
    If this is the cherry shortbread that I remember from my childhood then it's delicious! Thanks Jo_Jo for submitting one of Anna Olson's many excellent recipes. High 5!
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  • debwin 15 years ago
    Sounds yummy....another one to add to my shortbread collection
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  • jo_jo_ba 15 years ago
    Amount Per Serving
    Calories: 78.4
    Total Fat: 3.0 g
    Cholesterol: 11.9 mg
    Sodium: 27.8 mg
    Total Carbs: 11.9 g
    Dietary Fiber: 0.2 g
    Protein: 1.1 g
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