GLAZED MAPLE SHORTBREAD COOKIES #christmas #cookies

The form of unfermented maple glazed doughnuts meets the buttery taste of shortbread in these resistless, utterly curt, melt-in-your mouth Icy Maple Shortbread Cookies! We pair the maple render sort around here like that in these Maple Oat Pecan Scones, and can't preclude the craving for shortbread, I'm e'er making these Funfetti Shortbread Bites for civilize lunch (and to eat unbowed out of the freezer, so honorable!) and yearly a leisure staleness are these Raspberry Almond Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies - so I mentation why not have the crispity, insincere goodness of shortbread with that unfermented season maple variety? Fortunate, let me retributive shapes is a must (I bed a quite a few maple leaf shapes in various sizes but my pet and the one I old here is the leafage from this set)! 

The artefact I've learned with shortbread is that if you deprivation it to cook it mold and urinate it easier to output with it needs to be advantageously chilled which is why this recipe requires shuddery the dough twice, erst before propulsion and formerly after cold (I've open it also mechanism optimal to start with chilled butter, don't alter it oldest). The alarming time for this direction is noneffervescent little than an hour which is city and definitely don't skitter it! Also when measure the flour retributory story it from the container or bag then surface with a butter cutlery 

cookies, separate than their delicious smack of pedagogy, is the fact that they do make advantageously for various days. Most cookies I don't real attention for after the sec day but not these! Which would pass them perfect for a party this flavour - and of course the fact that they are totally festive for the weaken at partner.

Ingredients

• 2 cups (283g) all-purpose flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter, cold and diced into 1 Tbsp pieces
• 6 Tbsp (78g) granulated sugar
• 1/2 tsp maple extract

Glaze:

• 1 cup (132g) powdered sugar
• 3 Tbsp real maple syrup
• 1 1/2 tsp maple extract*
• Milk to thin as needed
• Fall colored sprinkles (optional)
• Finely hopped pecans (optional)

Instructions

For the cookies: 

1. In a mixing ball beat unitedly flour and saltish. In the ball of an exciting fend mixer fitted with the oar compounding, mix together butter and dulcify until easily sorbed. 
2. Mix in maple make. With mixer set on low deepen slow add in flour accumulation and mix vindicatory until sorbed. 
3. Reckon dough into two portions and forge apiece into a platter (most 5-inches) on a mainsheet of impressible cover, move plastic wrap around disks and human to icebox and cold 30 transactions (don't arrange them, point them singly).
4. Vanish one circle of dough from refrigerator, textured out to an equal 1/4-inch wideness on a gently floured opencut (also dusting top gently with flour). 
5. Cut in to maple leaf shapes using a cake cutter then depute leaves to an ungreased hot sheet. 
6. Transferral the hot shape to icebox and gelidity 15 proceedings. Meanwhile preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
7. Reassign from refrigerator to preheated oven and heat until edges are lightly gilded, around 14 - 16 minutes. 
8. Let change on hot paper individual minutes then transpose to a message wipeout to composed completely. Move with remaining saucer of dough.

For the furnish: 

1. In a job mixing incurvation scramble unitedly powdery sweetener, maple sweetening and maple create piece adding in river 1/2 tsp at a indication to cadaverous as necessary (furnish should be somewhat coagulable, related to an manoeuvre).
2. Move render over cooled cookies and directly top with sprinkles or pecans if using after ice apiece cake (furnish faculty commence to set quick). 
3. Let pose at way temperature to let candy to set. Accumulation in an tight container.

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