Shortbreadpuffsalsocalledmeltingmoments Recipes

SHORTBREAD PUFFS (ALSO CALLED MELTING MOMENTS)

Steps:

• Cream butter.
• Add icing sugar & cornstarch & beat on high until fluffy.
• Add vanilla & pinch of salt.
• Add flour and beat mixture until light and fluffy.
• Roll dough into small balls and place on cookie sheet. Dough will be very soft and sticky. Flatten with palm of your hand, lightly floured.
• Decorate with red sprinkles.
• Bake at 300 F for 10 minutes.
• Makes about 5 dozen cookies. Freezes well.

AUSSIE MELTING MOMENTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 160 deg Celsius Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
• Beat butter, icing sugar/mixture and vanilla essence with an electric mixer until pale and creamy.
• Sift together flour and cornflour, and add to the butter mixture.
• Mix together gently with a wooden spoon, and then with your hands.
• Use lightly floured hands to roll mix into walnut-sized balls.
• Put on trays about 5cm apart, and flatten with a lightly floured fork to about 1cm thick.
• Bake for about 15 minutes, swapping trays in oven halfway through (ie. at 7 minutes), until cooked through.
• Cool on baking trays.
• Filling: Use an electric mixer to beat butter, icing sugar/mixture and cocoa together until well-combined.
• Sandwich cooled biscuits together with the filling then lightly dust with icing sugar.
• Vary the filling flavour by substituting the cocoa with one of the following:.
• grated rind of 1 orange.
• grated rind of 1 lemon.
• 1 tbsp of passionfruit pulp.

MELTING MOMENTS

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add almond extract.
• Sift dry ingredients.
• Add dry ingredients.
• Chill dough for at least 1 hour.
• Shape level teaspoons of dough into balls.
• Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 375 for 10 minutes.
• Cool.
• Top with frosting.
• Frosting.
• Melt butter in sauce pan.
• Remove from heat and stir in flavorings and powdered sugar.
• Add cream to spreading consistency.
• Tint frosting with colors of your choice.

MELTING MOMENTS

Steps:

• Mix butter, flour and powdered sugar.
• Roll into balls the size of ping-pong balls.
• Place on cookie sheet and flatted to about 1/2 inch.
• Bake at 425* for just a few minutes until the edges just begin to show color (really watch them closely!) When cool, frost with the icing mixture on the FLAT side- to create a sandwich cookie.
• (You can just frost the cookie tops to double the cookie total. Also, you may substitute almond extract and a touch of red coloring for the cherry juice).

MELTING MOMENTS COOKIES

Steps:

• In medium mixing bowl, cream butter till light; then gradually add the confectioners' sugar and salt.
• Beat this mixture thoroughly, about 3 minutes; gradually add the cornstarch and flour and blend well.
• Form the dough into walnut-sized balls and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Transfer the balls to an ungreased cookie sheet and let stand for 20 minutes or until soft, then make a thumprint on top of each to flatten the cookies.
• Bake for 15-16 minutes or until the cookies are golden on the bottom. Remove to rack to cool.
• While the cookies cool, make the icing. In a small bowl, combine the butter, confectioners' sugar, almond extract, and half-and-half until creamy.
• This may be tinted with food coloring.or just left white.
• Ice the cookies when they are completely cooled.
• Store in tins, separated in layers by plastic wrap.