BROWN-BUTTER SHORTBREAD
Irish butter has a high butterfat content, making it especially flavorful. It's expensive to use for everyday baking but worth the splurge for this shortbread, where the ingredient shines.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cookie Recipes
Time 2h35m
Yield Makes 8 wedges
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Prepare an ice-water bath with a medium metal bowl set inside. Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, until deep golden brown, about 8 minutes. Immediately pour butter into bowl in ice-water bath and whisk in milk. Stir mixture constantly with a rubber spatula, scraping the sides of the bowl, until mixture begins to thicken, about 3 minutes.
- Remove bowl from ice-water bath and let stand until mixture thickens to the consistency of room-temperature butter, about 30 minutes.
- Beat butter mixture with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar and vanilla, and continue to beat for 2 minutes more. Reduce speed to low; beat in flour.
- Butter a 10-inch fluted tart pan with a removable bottom. Press dough evenly into bottom of pan using plastic wrap. (Make sure dough is flat; a small offset spatula may help.) Refrigerate, covered with plastic wrap, for 20 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Cut through dough to make 8 wedges using a sharp paring knife and a ruler. Cut a round from the center using a 2 1/4-inch ovenproof cookie cutter; discard dough. Return cutter to hole. Prick wedges all over with a wooden skewer. Refrigerate, covered, for 20 minutes.
- Sprinkle sanding sugar evenly over shortbread. Bake, rotating pan halfway through, until golden brown, 55 minutes to 1 hour 5 minutes. Let cool in pan set on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Remove shortbread from pan, and cut along lines into wedges. Let cool completely on rack.
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sonia rehman
[email protected]These cookies are the perfect comfort food. They're warm, buttery, and delicious.
Md alamin Hossain manik
[email protected]I love the way these cookies smell. They fill my house with a warm and inviting aroma.
Uket Koko
[email protected]These cookies are a great way to use up leftover brown butter.
Erum Niaz
[email protected]These cookies are the perfect holiday gift. They're delicious and festive, and they're sure to be appreciated by everyone on your list.
Ritesh Gupta
[email protected]I love the way these cookies taste. They're so buttery and flavorful.
Irfan jatt
[email protected]These cookies are the perfect size for a party. They're small enough to eat in one bite, but they're still satisfying.
Yuli Andrea Castro
[email protected]I love the way these cookies look. They're so festive and elegant.
Zubair. Khan
[email protected]These cookies are so easy to make, and they're always a crowd-pleaser.
Beshr Jalal1
[email protected]I've made these cookies several times, and they always turn out perfectly.
george frank
[email protected]These cookies are the best shortbread cookies I've ever had.
Umar Nawaz
[email protected]I'm so glad I found this recipe. These cookies are amazing!
FER3ON GAMES
[email protected]These cookies are so addictive! I can't stop eating them.
Jassy Burk
[email protected]I love the way these cookies melt in my mouth.
Nothing
[email protected]These cookies are the perfect holiday treat. They're festive and delicious.
Zeyd Chala
[email protected]I made these cookies for a party, and they were a huge hit! Everyone loved them.
raeesKZ KZ
[email protected]These cookies are so delicious! I can't stop eating them.
Shah Badeen
[email protected]I love the simplicity of these cookies. They're so easy to make, and they always turn out perfectly.
Fishy YT
[email protected]These shortbread cookies are the perfect balance of sweet and salty. The brown butter adds a rich, nutty flavor that takes them to the next level.