SHORTBREAD STRAWBERRIES
Author: Tag Sale Tastes
Ingredients
  • 3 sticks butter, softened
  • 1 cup confectioner's sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 cups flour*
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • Red coarse or sparkling sugar
  • Green coarse or sparkling sugar
  • Black coarse or sparkling sugar
  • *Note -- for extra crisp cookies, use 2 cups flour and 1 cup rice flour
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
  2. In a medium bowl, cream together butter and confectioner's sugar, using an electric beater. Stir in vanilla. Add flour and salt, and mix together thoroughly. Shape into a ball, flatten into a disk, wrap in plastic wrap or waxed paper, and refrigerate a few hours until firm.
  3. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough out to ½-inch thickness. Using a strawberry-shaped cookie cutter, cut out shapes and transfer to cookie sheet or tray. Sprinkle body of strawberry with red sparkling sugar, and leaves with green sparkling sugar. Carefully place a few black or brown sugar crystals on strawberry to resemble seeds. Using a spatula, transfer cookies to a cookie sheet (wipe off any stray sugar crystals around the bottom) and bake approximately 20 minutes. Cookies should not brown. Allow to cool briefly, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Recipe by Tag Sale Tastes at https://www.tagsaletastes.com/2013/05/12/shortbread-strawberries/