Sourdough Cranberry Shortbread Cookies

Sourdough Cranberry Shortbread Cookies

“These cookies are a great holiday dipping cookie with your morning coffee.”

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I've always loved shortbread cookies and adding cranberries and pistachios to them made them that much better.

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 12-15 min

Servings: 24 cookies

Ingredients

For the Cookies:

• 120 g powdered sugar, (1 cup)

• 170 g butter, (12 Tbsp)

• 5 g vanilla, (1 tsp)

• 100 g sourdough starter (active or not), (1/2 cup)

• 318 g all-purpose flour, (2 cups)

• 5 g sea salt, (1 tsp)

• 80 g dried cranberries, (1/2 cup)

• 80 g unsalted pistachios, roasted (1/2 cup)

Preparation Steps

1. Using a French Chef knife, chop the dried cranberrie into small pieces. Set aside.

2. Using a food processor or a mini chopper, pulse and chop the pistachios into small pieces. Set aside.

3. In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter and powdered sugar until fluffy. Add vanilla and sourdough starter and mix until smooth and fully incorpaorated.

4. Add the cranberries and pistachios and mix until evenly distributed. Don’t be tempted to over mix your cookie dough!

5. Transfer the dough onto a sheet of parchment paper and shape soft dough into a log the diameter you want your cookies to be. Usually 2” cookies are a good size.

6. Use the parchment paper to help shape your dough into a nice, tight log. You might need to unwrap and rewrap the dough to create some tension.

7. Refrigerate the dough for a minimum of one hour and up to 72 hours for a long ferment. You can also freeze the dough at this point if you prefer.

8. Preheat your oven to 350º F.

9. Roll the dough in sugar before slicing. Slice the dough into 1/4” thick slices using a serrated knife. The dough will be stiff at first, but will loosen up as you work with it.

10. Bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes until the edges are lightly browned.

NOTE
Cranberries and pistachios - two of my all time favorites!

Original recipe from @everything.sourdough on Instagram.

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