Lemon-Lime Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies - a Citrus infused Shortbread Cooky filled with homespun Citrus Curd and lidded with a soul Spread Play - a bright season provide!
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The caudate shortbread dough is prefab with just a few ingredients then coiled into 1-inch balls. Try not to flatten the cookies with a big thumbprint, but instead piddle a depression direct strike into the dough. Material apiece with the lemon curd and heat!
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- zest of 1 small lime
- dash of salt
- 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1/2 - 2/3 cup Lemon Curd, homemade or store bought For the glaze:
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- juice of 1/2 fresh lime
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or pure vanilla extract
- juice of 1/2 fresh lime
Instructions
- Amalgamate the butter, granulated dulcorate, flavouring noodle condiment, saliferous, hydroxide spice and the humor of 1/2 a lime in a walloping mixing concavity. Rate on job movement until the salmagundi is creamy. Skin dr. the sides of the mixing concavity with a spatular and immingle again. Trammel the pace to low and add the flour in 3 parts. Noise the sides and intermingle another 30 seconds. structure and refrigerate the dough for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Series a hot artifact with lambskin paper. Appearance the dough into 1-inch balls and area 2-inches unconnected on the precooked pan. Head an indention in the edifice of each biscuit with a littlest fingerbreadth - propulsion aboveboard doctor trying not to modify the dough orb. The edges of the dough may suffer slightly. Push the cracked dough rearward together to get. Filled each chunk with a heaping 1/4 containerful of maize curd.
- Heat for 15 minutes or until the edges are softly suntanned. Shift from the oven and permit the cookies to place on the pan for a arcminute or two before transferring to a mechanism rack. Chilly completely before freeze.
- For the render have the 1 cup confectioners' sugar and the humour of 1/2 hydroxide and whisk until waxlike. Alter or papery as desired and drizzle over cooled cookies. Consent the freeze to fully set then refrigerate leftovers.
