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    Home » Recipes » Dessert » Cookies Recipes » Vanilla Bean Shortbread Cookies

    Published: Feb 6, 2018 · Modified: Jan 13, 2020 by Kristen Massad · This post may contain affiliate links · 1 Comment

    Vanilla Bean Shortbread Cookies

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    If there is one thing that I look forward to in the month of February is spreading the love and making my sweet family of five feel a little more special than they already do on a daily bases.  My husband and I tend to celebrate the small stuff, the big stuff...ALL the stuff because I feel like they deserve it and we want to give it.  We love celebrating ½ birthdays, good grades, sleeping through the night and something as small as waking up smiling....it's the littles things when you have a 7, 4 and 16 month old 🙂  

    Shortbread cookies make an appearance in our house for all the occasions.  Every birthday has a themed and decorated shortbread cookie and same with all the holidays.  Valentines day is the perfect day to throw a little flour around the kitchen (it might get messy) and bake up our family favorite Shortbread Cookies decorated with royal icing.  

    As I was decorating these, I was inspired by all the artists in my Instagram feed and decided to do a splatter paint detail that you and your littles can do together!  

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    Vanilla Bean Shortbread Cookies

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    • Author: Kristen Massad
    • Yield: 24 1x

    Ingredients

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    Shortbread Cookie

    • 1 Cup Granulated Sugar
    • 2 Cups Unsalted Butter
    • 1 Egg
    • 1 Vanilla Bean or 1 tsp Vanilla Bean Paste
    • 4 Cups All Purpose Flour

    Royal Icing

    • 6 Cups Powdered Sugar
    • 3-4 Eggs Whites, Pasteurized (add more or less eggs to adjust consistency)
    • ½ tsp Vanilla Extract

    Instructions

    Shortbread Cookies

    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and prepare sheet pans with parchment paper
    2. Cream sugar and butter in a mixing bowl with a paddle attachment
    3. Add eggs and vanilla bean; mix on low speed until egg is fully incorporated
    4. Slowly add in the flour and mix until dough comes together into a ball
    5. Place dough on a floured surface and gently kneed until smooth
    6. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes
    7. Once the dough is chilled, roll out into ⅛" thick and cut into desired shape
    8. Bake cookies at 350 degrees for 14-18 minutes or until lightly golden on the edges, turning half way
    9. Allow the cookies to cool before glazing and decorating

    Royal Icing

    1. Combine powdered sugar, eggs whites and vanilla in a mixing bowl with paddle attachment and mix on medium speed for 5 minutes or until icing is smooth
    2. Divide the icing into 4 bowls
    3. Save one bowl for white icing for the base of the cookie
    4. Mix one bowl with hot pink food coloring
    5. Mix one bowl with lime green food coloring
    6. Mix one bowl with orange food coloring
    7. Using the white icing, fill a pastry bag and pipe the icing to cover the top of the cookie
    8. Allow the white icing to dry for 10 minutes
    9. Place the colored icing in individual pastry bags and splatter the color onto the white icing to make it look like splatter paint
    10. Allow the cookies to dry before serving or dry overnight to place in cellophane bags and use as party favors!

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