These Pecan Shortbread Christmas Bushes are made with a beneficiant dose of Pecan Flour courtesy of Schermer Pecans, which is floor pecans and nothing else. It’s excessive in good-for-you fat and has extra nutritional vitamins and minerals than grain-based flour. Most significantly, it offers these festive delights an exquisite nutty taste and chewy-crisp texture. All that’s wanted is an elegantly easy piping of white chocolate and nonpareils to embellish these edible firs.
Pecan Shortbread Christmas Bushes
Makes 18 cookies
- 1 1/2 cups (340 grams) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup (120 grams) confectioners’ sugar
- 2 teaspoons (6 grams) kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons (8 grams) vanilla extract
- 3 1/2 cups (438 grams) all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup (90 grams) pecan flour*
- 3 ounces (85 grams) chopped white chocolate, melted
- Garnish: white nonpareils
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Within the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter, confectioners’ sugar, and salt at medium pace till gentle and creamy, 2 to3 minutes, stopping to scrape sides of bowl. Beat in vanilla.
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In a medium bowl, whisk collectively flours. With mixer on low pace, add fl our combination to butter combination in two additions, beating simply till mixed after every addition.
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End up dough, and form right into a disk. Wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate till agency, about 2 hours,or as much as in a single day.
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Preheat oven to 325°F (170°C). Line baking sheetswith parchment paper.
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On a flippantly floured floor, roll dough to ½-inch thickness. Utilizing a 4-inch tree-shaped cutter, minimize dough, rerolling scraps as essential. Place 1½ inches aside on ready pans.
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Bake till edges are flippantly browned, 20 to25 minutes, rotating pans midway by means of baking. Let cool on pans for 10 minutes. Take away from pans, and let cool utterly on wire racks.
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Spoon melted white chocolate right into a piping bag, andcut a really small opening in tip. Pipe onto cookies to resemble garland; instantly garnish with nonpareils, if desired. Let stand till chocolate is ready, about 1 hour. Retailer in an hermetic container for as much as 5 days.
