I am about cookied-out from all the Christmas cookie baking so I was very slightly hesitant about making these. But I love shortbread and I have never made it so I forged ahead and I am so glad I did. I halved the recipe, because I didn't really want to have all those buttery treats hanging around the kitchen calling my name. I did not have Fleur de Sel and the stores around here don't have all that kind of stuff so
I substituted sea salt.
These are very simple to make and the result is so incredibly good!
I may have to add them to my holiday cookie list!
The recipe and the results of what all the other talented bakers did are here. Please take a look see.
Happy New Year!
Your shortbread looks wonderful! I love the shapes you cut. What a neat idea to cut out the middle of the discs.
ReplyDeleteI really liked baking these too and think I might have to make them next year for gifts.
Happy Baking in the new year.
Yes, these are good enough and beautiful enough for elegant gifts. Your shortbreads are so pretty and so specially cut. Beautiful work! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteSo.... that could be a "shortbread wreath" ! Hm... great idea! Looks wonderful and I agree - was just the "simple" thing everyone needed after all the sugared sweets over Christmas. Have a terrific New Year!
ReplyDeleteI was done with Christmas sweets and was hesitant about making this but am so glad I did... though I also halved the recipe ;) Your shortbread is perfectly cut and I agree with Mike, totally looks like a wreath. Happy 2013!
ReplyDeleteWow - you did such a great job cutting & decorating your shortbread! I thought I was all cookied-out, too, but these were great & not too sweet.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful New Year!
Great photographs and cookie design! I had to get my fleur de sel from Amazon because I live in a tiny mountain town where we have nothing of the sort... and I only got it so I could bake with the Baked books (and then I missed this week, so go figure!). Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteYour shortbread looks wonderful! Very appealing and tempting. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteChelly-I love your idea of cutting out the center--no more slightly overbaked shortbread points!
ReplyDeleteWow they look amazing, so precise and even! I hear you on the cookied-out vibe!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty design. These will definitely be on my holiday and year round cookie list. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteI cut the recipe in half too, and used sea salt. Thought they were great, definitely a recipe that I would make again. Glad you liked them too!
ReplyDeleteChelly....those are beautiful! So simply elegant...and that round center cookie would be mine! I'm almost cookied out too! But so glad you decided to make these. Your photos are lovely! : )
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