 City Bakery Shortbread Cookies - Instructions
This recipe, created for us by Maury Rubin, proprietor of the renowned City Bakery in New York, makes
rich and buttery cookies that are fun to make into shapes and decorate.
Put the butter in the bowl of a stand mixer with paddle attached. Mix on low speed until butter softens
slightly. With the mixer running, add the sugar to the butter with a slow, constant pouring motion.
Stop the mixer and add half of the flour. Mix on low speed until flour is partly incorporated. Stop
mixing and add the remaining flour. Mix on slow speed until flour is just combined into the butter. Do
not over mix.
Remove the dough from the bowl and wrap it in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 2 hours. Shape dough into
cylindrical log, if desired, before chilling.
Preheat the oven to 325 F. Line cookie baking sheets with parchment paper. On a cutting lightly floured
work surface, roll out dough to 1/8-inch thickness, and cut out shapes with cookie cutters. If you have
previously rolled the dough into a log, slice into disks.
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