Shortbread Hammer Placecards

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I'm making these as I write this. I am making ghosts for Halloween and they look divinely spooky. Now I just need to pipe on some dark chocolate eyes and howling mouths. My kidss say they are delicious but I won't know until Sunday when I can eat them. (Diets are no fun sometimes... Sift the flour well and place on a paper plate so that you don't end up looking like a ghost. (Oh, and that's an Alton Brown trick! <3

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they are yum i loved it and im only 10.thanks ina p.s. to easy to make and i love to bake

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I usually stay away from the ubiquitous sugar cookie cut-out. I just never think they have enough flavor for the effort. But, since Ina has not failed me yet in her brilliant efforts to maximize flavors (with minimum additions I thought I'd give these cookies a try!
I ended up using white whole wheat flour (just for the heck of it! and they still turned out FANTASTIC!
Slightly moist, with that buttery crunch of a shortbread cookie. I was most impressed with the icing. It sets up beautifully. I froze leftover dough, and used it about a month later. Still just as fab!

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They were yummy and easy to make!

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First off, I LOVED THEM!!!! But there was a downfall. my dough was really crumbly so i addes 1/4 cup water and that really helped : This was such an easy recipe that everyone in my family loved!!! : thanks Ina!!!

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Thank you for your comment its appreciated. What a great idea for the cheesecake crust !

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Thanks Ina for the great recipe. After making 3 batches of other cookies today, I was a bit tired to make cut outs, but I needed to make shortbread for a cheesecake crust. I split the refrigerated dough in half, and pressed each into a 9 in. round cheesecake pan, then I cut wedges with a paring knife, then docked the dough with a fork. Baked at 350? for about 22 minutes, until shortbread was blond.
Maybe those of you who are getting dough that is too crumbly, are not measuring the flour right. You need to aerate the flour before measuring it, just take a large spoon and scoop the flour, and release it back so it it's not so packed. Then lightly spoon flour into measuring cup and gently sweep across the top of the cup, without pressing it down, or you will actually have too much flour, which could cause the dough to be too dry, and not hold together. For those of you who have had the shortbread burn, could be the oven needs to be calibrated, or buy an oven thermometer, You might set the oven to 350?, when in fact, the oven temp will actually be 400?, so check the accuracy of your oven.

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I agree with previous reviews that the dough needs to warm in your hands a bit so it is not so crumbly. I too burned the first batch, but found 15 mins. worked perfect as well as making the cut outs a bit thicker for the second batch. I colored the icing with food coloring - one drop for 1/2 the recipe works great. If you are hunting for unique cookie cutters, I found Sur la Table has a great selection at reasonable prices. After searching for two weeks, I finally found one in the shape of a "cross" that I'll use for my Goddaughter's baptism as well as my daughter's class. Thanks, Ina, as always!

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I just made this recipe for the first time. I burned the first batch. I had the oven on 350, and I checked them at 18 minutes in and they were DARK. So for the second batch, I backed the temp down to 325 and they came out just fine. I saw where some people said they had trouble with the dough crumbling, and mine did too at first when I took it out of the fridge, but I worked it with my hands a little (to warm it up a bit and didn't have any more crumbling problems.

I gave this recipe 4/5 because the first batch burned before the given cook time! And, it's not quite as flavorful as I would have liked.

OH--and I don't have a mixer with a paddle attachment--I just used a regular hand mixer, and everything turned out just fine.

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okay so we tried this recipe twice and both times it seemed the cookies did not want to work for us. The dough was sticky and gooey and greasy. we followed the recipe step by step and the cookies came out with no taste what so ever. what went wrong?