Meltaway Cookies are delicate, shortbread-like cookies with a confectioner’s sugar dusting that simply almost melt in your mouth.
Meltaway Cookies
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
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Meltaway Cookies is my recipe of the day for the annual blogging event Christmas Cookies Week. My blogging friends and I have been doing this one for a few years now. It’s always something I look forward to. Especially since cookie baking is so much fun.
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Earlier I shared my recipe for Mandarin Orange White Chocolate Chip Cookies and the white chocolate fun continued with Peanut Butter Brownie Bombs. Then Wednesday’s fun had us making the Easiest Sugar Sprinkle Cookies with your favorite jimmies or nonpareils.
The flurry of recipes continues today. With my recipe for Meltaway Cookies. As well, I finished up with a recipe for Thumbprints. So be sure to check back for that one.
Christmas Cookies Week
Thursday Christmas Cookie Recipes
- Chocolate Chip Cocoa Powder Cookies from Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice
- Cinnamon Cookies from Daily Dish Recipes
- Coconut Cookies from Magical Ingredients
- Cranberry Orange Cookies from Devour Dinner
More cookies…
- Old Fashioned Iced Molasses Cookies from An Affair from the Heart
- Gingerbread Biscotti from Kate’s Recipe Box
- Hot Chocolate Macarons from Jen Around the World
- Meltaway Cookies from Palatable Pastime
To fill your jars and tins…
- Nastar Cookies from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
- Polish Cream Cheese Cookies from Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
- Turtle Chocolate Chip Cookies from Blogghetti
Meltaway Cookies
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Meltaway Cookies
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Meltaway Cookies
Equipment
- cookie sheet and parchment paper
Ingredients
Cookie Dough:
- 1 cup unsalted butter (at room temperature)
- 3/4 cup sifted powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/4 cups cake flour
Other:
- Sifted powdered sugar (as needed)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Mix together cookie dough ingredients until smooth.
- Use a one tablespoon scoop per cookie and place on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
- Flatten with a glass spritzed with nonstick spray then dipped in cornstarch.
- Bake for 12 minutes.
- When cookies cool, dust with sifted powdered sugar.
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