Neapolitan Shortbread Cookies | Sarah Kieffer

I decided to give you a shortbread mannequin of these Neapolitan cookies for a variety of causes, since they on a regular basis uncover their means into my trip cookie bins. The precept function being they’re barely a lot much less tedious to position collectively than the sugar cookie mannequin, which saves some time all through the holiday cookie madness I favor to place myself by way of.

Shortbread dough would not have any leavening in it, and is believed for its “temporary” or crumbly texture. The shining ingredient is in spite of everything, butter, nevertheless this beautiful, multi-color cookie moreover has a nice hit of chocolate and strawberry. I select to utilize unsalted butter so I can administration how rather a lot salt I put into the cookie, nevertheless in case you could have a salted butter you want, it’s best to make the most of that as an alternative; model the finished dough sooner than together with additional salt. Assure that the dough is completely blended, and use a spatula to scrape down the edges of the mixer.

Learn the way to Type Neapolitan Shortbread

• As inside the Neapolitan sugar cookies, the dough is cut up into three sections, after which strawberry and chocolate are added to 2 of the components.
• I press the doughs collectively and create three fully totally different stripes of shade and style for each cookie. I like how the strains are fully straight and each cookie is unique.
• I moreover shaped the log into additional of a sq. as an alternative of rounding it out proper right into a circle, so that my cookie subject would have some variety of type as correctly (since most cookies are circle shaped moreover the cut-out cookies).

Once you’re looking out for a plain vanilla shortbread, I’ve this Buttery Shortbread recipe. Once you wished a pan mannequin as an alternative of slice and bake, you’ll love this Tender, Pan-Style Shortbread. I’ve pretty a variety of recipes for shortbread and sables in my books too; all of them pretty comparable in nature, and all of them well-loved by my family.

Concepts for Making Neapolitan Shortbread Cookies:

Butter is the foremost ingredient proper right here, so make sure that to utilize a mannequin of butter that you just love.

I select to utilize unsalted butter so I can administration how rather a lot salt I put into the cookie, nevertheless in case you could have a salted butter you want, it’s best to make the most of that as an alternative; model the finished dough sooner than together with additional salt. Assure that the dough is completely blended, and use a spatula to scrape down the edges of the mixer.

Use black cocoa powder for a darker shade.

I buy freeze-dried strawberries at Objective or you could get them on-line proper right here. The powdered strawberries on their very personal acquired’t give a vibrant pink hue, so I like in order so as to add barely meals coloring.

Best Strategy to Retailer Shortbread

Shortbread is likely to be saved at room temperature for as a lot as 5 days. Shortbread may be frozen: make sure that the cookies are wrapped airtight (a ziplock freezer bag works good for this) and freeze for as a lot as 2 months.

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• 1 1/2 cups [3 sticks or 339 g] unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup [200 g] granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup [60 g] confectioners’ sugar
• 1 1/4 teaspoons prime quality salt
• 2 huge egg yolks
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 3 cups [426 g] all-purpose flour*
• 1/4 cup [8 g] freeze-dried strawberries
• 1 to 2 drops pink meals coloring, optionally accessible
• 3 tablespoons Dutch-process cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon water, room temperature
• sanding sugar

• Throughout the bowl of a meals processor fitted with a blade, pulverize the strawberries proper right into a powder. (You presumably can sift the seeds out if desired, nevertheless needn’t).

• Throughout the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle, beat the butter on medium tempo until creamy, about 1 minute. Add the granulated and confectioners’ sugar and salt, and beat as soon as extra on medium tempo until delicate and fluffy, 2 to a few minutes. Scrape down the bowl and add the egg yolks and vanilla, and mix on low tempo until built-in. Then add the flour and mix on low tempo until merely blended.

• Dump the dough out onto a chunk flooring and divide it into three equal components. Put one-third of the dough once more into the mixer and add the powdered strawberries and meals coloring, if using. Mix on low tempo until fully blended, then take away the dough.

• Add one different third of dough to the mixer. Add the cocoa powder and mix on low tempo until fully blended. If the cocoa powder simply is not incorporating quickly, add the teaspoon of water to the mixing bowl.

• Divide each of the three style components of dough into two equal objects, for six objects of dough full. Stack one chocolate, one strawberry, and one vanilla on prime of each other, and gently press the objects collectively. Pat and kind proper right into a log, about 2 in [5 cm] big and eight in [20 cm] prolonged. Place the go browsing an enormous piece of plastic, a variety of inches longer than the log. Sprinkle a number of teaspoon of sanding sugar over both facet of the log, overlaying the floor of the dough. Gently press the sugar into the dough alongside together with your palms. Wrap the log inside the plastic wrap and refrigerate until company, about 2 hours, or in a single day. Repeat with the remaining dough.

• When in a position to bake, alter an oven rack to the middle of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350F [180C]. Line two sheet pans with parchment paper.

• Sprinkle some additional sanding sugar over both facet of the log, if desired. Slice the chilled log into ½ in [12 mm] thick objects (you could go as a lot as 3/4 in if you would like them barely thicker). Space the objects about 2 in [5 cm] apart on the sheet pans. Bake one pan at a time, rotating halfway by way of baking. Bake until the edges are delicate golden brown nevertheless the services are nonetheless pale, 13 to fifteen minutes. Switch the pan to a wire rack and let the cookies cool totally on the pan. Retailer cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for as a lot as 3 days.

All by way of my recipes posted on this website, 1 cup of flour equals 142g. Please observe that 1 cup of flour can fluctuate anyplace from 120g to 142g, counting on the baker or website. I found that after weighting many cups of flour and averaging the entire, mine on a regular basis ended up spherical this amount. If I am posting a recipe from one different cookbook, I will use irrespective of gram measure of flour utilized in that information, which is why you could even see a variety of posts with a novel cup measurement.
Utterly totally different producers of flour have varied ranges of protein, ranging from low to extreme, which can find yourself in very fully totally different outcomes when baking. I’ve found Gold Medal all-purpose unbleached flour to be the only option for lots of of my recipes; I exploit it in all the baked objects that don’t use yeast.