I’ve professed my love for shortbread many times over, and I am always experimenting to see what modifications I can make. One of my best friends recommended this recipe from Robin Hood so I had to give it a try. The recipe is easy enough you can make it with kids of any age and delicious enough to serve to guests anytime of year.
Toffee Shortbread Meltaways
Author: RobinHood.ca
Recipe type: Dessert
Easy, light and buttery these are a wonderful version of shortbread.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter
- ½ cup Icing Sugar
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 1¾ cups All Purpose Flour
- ½ cup cornstarch
- ¾ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 cup toffee bits
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF (180ºC).
- Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Beat butter, icing sugar and vanilla in a large bowl until creamy.
- In a separate large bowl, combine flour, corn starch, baking powder and salt; stir half into butter mixture.
- Stir in toffee bits and remaining flour mixture.
- Roll heaping tablespoonfuls (15 mL) of dough into balls. Place on prepared cookie sheets, spacing about 2” (5 cm) apart.
- Bake in centre of preheated oven for 15 minutes or until lightly golden.
- Let cool on pan for 5 minutes.
- Dust with more icing sugar if desired.
The cookies are absolutely delicious. They not only melt in your mouth but the rich buttery taste combined with the toffee bits are heavenly. My boys loved them! It’s a good thing company was coming over or we might have eaten the whole batch!
If yours last longer than ours did, they are freezeable and can be made weeks in advance.
I’ll have to get my daughter to make some of these cookies for me–I mean us!
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Yes they are delicious!
These are delicious. Secret is to beat butter mixture. Everyone in my family love these cookies and cant figure out why mine are better every year. I keep telling them i beat the butter mixture (they do not). They refuse to believe that could be it. But it is lol. Someone please agree with me lol. Actually beat the butter :)
Will try that next time I make them!