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Cookie Recipe of the Week: Toffee Shortbread Cookies - Just 7 Ingredients

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Toffee Shortbread Cookies are a unique hybrid of a traditional shortbread and molded drop cookies.

On the one hand, the recipe follows shortbread’s classic ratio of ingredients (typically one part sugar, two parts butter, and three parts white flour) to produce a rich, crumbly biscuit-like cookie texture. Can you say ahhh?

But rather than pressing the cookie dough into a pan and cutting it when it is warm, these delectable individual shortbreads are formed when you scoop dough and roll it into 1-inch balls (as in other molded cookie recipes). Miniature chocolate chips and toffee bits may ooze out a bit when you bake them. You won’t mind.

Prep time: 10-15 minutesBake time: 10-13 minutesMakes about 4 dozen cookies

Get the full recipe for Toffee Shortbread Cookies and check out our Shortbread Pinterest board for more fun and easy shortbread ideas.

Easter Fun for Kids, Families, Friends

Easter is coming! How will you and your family celebrate?

The Un-Bunny Book answers that question! It's packed with fun activities, games, crafts, snacks, and stories that are based on Easter's true meaning.

Use it for kids ages 3-12 at home, school, church, in the community, or with your homeschool group -- or even to hold an outreach Easter event. The Un-Bunny Book shows kids and parents that Jesus' resurrection is something to celebrate. With reproducibles, too!

Learn more about The Un-Bunny Book here.

Cookie Baking Tip: Butter or Margarine?

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Make Shortbread in Style

Longlasting ceramic shortbread pans from Brown Bag, others	Cookie stamps and molds for shortbread cookies	Check out English shortbread pans from Nordicware, others

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