Make a resolution to eat more cookies in 2019.
These Swedish Shortbread Cookies would be a good place to start. They are crazy delicious. They are beautiful. They are easy to bake.
And…they passed a stringent taste test by my friends (and cookie aficionados) Carole and Maria–two tough cookie judges!
I found this recipe quite serendipitously. I tuned in to The Splendid Table Podcast and found Sally Swift interviewing Rick Nelson, one of the authors of The Great Minnesota Cookie Book. Here is a link to the Splendid Table interview: The Splendid Table.
It turns out that The Minneapolis Star Tribune has been hosting a holiday cookie contest each year for the last fifteen years, a contest that has attracted no fewer than 3500 entries. Now they have published a cookbook that features the best-of-the-best cookie recipes culled from those 3500 entries–from Grandma Eva’s Ginger Cream Cookies to Red Velvet Whoopie Pies to these Swedish Shortbread Cookies.
The recipe for these Swedish Shortbread Cookies was entered by Marsha Morrissette of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, in 2003. Morrissette told the newspaper that this cookie is so popular among her family and friends that it is the only cookie she bakes for the holidays, adding “They’re even good when you steal them straight out of the freezer. No defrosting necessary.”
Wow! Straight from the freezer? That’s my kind of cookie.
Here is the recipe:
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You can buy this book on Amazon here.
