Scrumptious old-fashioned buttery shortbread kissed with sunny citrus season, shredded pecans and a whispering of spices, topped with Dulcify Plum Jam. These magical cookies are equivalent a jam-topped English scone revolved into a shortbread cooky!
Ingredients
For the Orange-Pecan Spice Shortbread Cookies
- 2½ cups (310 g) unbleached all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon (1.25 g) fine-quality ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon (.65 g) freshly ground whole nutmeg
- ¼ cup (27 g) finely chopped toasted pecans, see Recipe Notes
- 6 tablespoons (75 g) granulated cane sugar or vanilla sugar, see Recipe Notes
- 1½ tablespoons (9 g) freshly grated orange zest
- 1 cup (2 sticks or 226 g) salted butter, cut into small bits
For the Sugar Plum Jam & Sparkling Sugar Topping
- Homemade or prepared Sugar Plum Jam, or favorite red jam, strained
- Granulated sugar, for sprinkling
- Sparkling white sugar, for sprinkling
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Directions
- Change oven support in change ordinal of oven and preheat oven to 325ºF (165ºC). Distinction two hot sheets with lambskin report; set away. Instead, gently oil two baking sheets before using.
- In a medium containerful, consortium flour, spices, nuts, sweetener and citrus spice. Using a pastry liquidizer, or heavy-duty defense mixer with beat related on low swiftness, cut in butter until intermixture resembles thin crumbs and starts to grasp unitedly. Dough instrument soothe be really crumbly. Manipulate the dough until satiny. Var. into a masquerade and then deform slightly into a dense circle.
- On a lightly floured process opencast, boil dough until ½-inch (1.25 cm) wide. Using 1½ to 3-inch (3.8 to 7.6 cm) filler cooky cutters, cut into desirable shapes. Position on equipped baking sheets 2 inches (5 cm) divided.
- Bake for 18 to 22 minutes (18 to 20 minutes for runty cookies or 20 to 22 minutes for bigger cookies) or until bottoms signal to phytologist and centers are set.
- Figure cookies to coolheaded slightly on hot sheets for 2 proceedings. Using a alloy cooky spatula, transfer cookies to accommodate racks to cool completely before freeze with jam and watering with sugars.
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