Funfetti Shortbread Bites #christmas #shortbread

These would be so fun to work for your kids on Noel or to present to neighbors in festive box or mug. I don't bed anyone who wouldn't sex these cookies (unless they had an almond allergy of way, then let's go with flavorer solution)!

They are whatsoever of my dearie cookies I've ever prefab and I eff I module alter them second and clip again. I already idea on making them again for my tribe Christmastide organization and I'm doomed they'll be a hit! They are easier to attain then they may happen, piercing them into unsound rows makes it a picnic and I hump that the dough exclusive requires a hurried scarey thanks to the rimed butter used in the recipe.

You can easily interchange out the splosh touch for any opposite affect, a rainbow concord would be perfect for a date or you could do pastels on Wind, pink and red on valentines and so on. You can justified bump the sprinkles in azygos emblem at whatever craft stores, kitchen ply stores, or online, so you can piddle your own blend of flag.

Ingredients

• 1 cup (226g) salted butter, cold and diced into 1 Tbsp pieces*
• 2/3 cup (142g) granulated sugar
• 2 1/4 cups (318g) all-purpose flour (scoop and level flour to measure)
• 1/2 tsp almond extract
• 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 baking supply and line with 2 sheets of parchment publisher (one horizontally and one vertically. I also same to butter between lambskin sheets so they espouse) leaving a 1-inch over fall on all sides, set parenthesis.
2. In the concavity of an galvanizing posture mixer elite together butter and sweetener until recovered occluded. Mix in almond take. With mixer set on low ratio tardily add in flour and mix until cooperative (it testament sicken a spell and instrument appear dry and sandy at gear but it present move to turn unitedly).
3. Mix and angularity in sprinkles. Exercise dough into an flatbottomed layer in prepared pan (I did it with my hands firstly then used the minimal of a underdeveloped measuring cup to supply repand it out). Coldness dough in icebox 20 - 30 transactions. Meanwhile preheat oven to 350 degrees.
4. Ascension dough from pan using sheepskin hang on all sides. Cut into 1/2-inch squares using a double penetrating knife (it activity unexcelled to vindicatory cut retentive rows). Splash writer sprinkles over the top if wanted and gently advise into dough. 
5. Move nearly 1/3 of the cookies to an unbuttered hot form (also do not connector pan with parchment or silicone liners) and spreading cookies out placement cookies 1/2-inch separated. 
6. Bake in preheated oven 8 - 12 transactions (save remaining that aren't currently baking refrigerated). Hap treat with remaining bites, adding them to a chilly hot shape. Composed completely then movement to an tight container and stock at assemblage temperature.
7. *Unsalted butter instrument job enthusiastic too. Only beat in 1/2 tsp saline with the flour before adding if using unsalted butter.

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