Easiest Way to Make Delicious Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies

Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies. Soft and buttery shortbread cookies flavored with cherry and almond, then finished off with sweet white chocolate. This cookie dough must be chilled, so plan accordingly. Once baked up, these Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies are flavorful wafers of buttery cherry and almond.

In a large bowl, combine flour and sugar. Using a pastry blender, cut in the butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Stir in almond extract and cherry juice. You can have Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies using 15 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies

1. Prepare 6 ounces of unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks) at room temperature.
2. You need 2/3 cup of granulated sugar.
3. It's 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
4. It's 1/2 teaspoon of almond extract.
5. You need 1 tablespoon of marachino cherry juice.
6. Prepare 2 cups of all purpose flour.
7. It's 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
8. You need 15 of marachino cherries, chopped.
9. Prepare of For Topping.
10. You need 1 cup of salted almonds, chopped.
11. It's 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar.
12. Prepare 1 of large egg, beaten with 1 tablespoon water (egg ewash).
13. Prepare of For Drizzle.
14. It's 4 ounces of white chocolaye, melted.
15. It's 3 of punces milk chovolate, melted.

Simply beautiful - the red cherry jam on snow-white shortbread is so festive! With classic flavors of cherry and almond and buttery melt-in-your mouth shortbread, this cookie is a winner! The formed cookies have to chill for one hour before baking, so plan ahead. Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies Serve a platter of cookies alongside the pears and ice cream.

Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 350. Line baking sheets with parchment ppaper.
2. In a bowl beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Add extracts and cherry juice and beat in.
4. Add flour and salt, when just blended add chopped cherries.
5. Combine tne chopped almonds wíth the granulated sugar on a plate.
6. Roll cookies into I inch balls.
7. Dip in egg wash.
8. Roll in almond sugar and place on prepared pan flatten tops with the alm of your hand. Bake 12 to 18 minutes. Cool on rcks.
9. When cool drizzle with white cgocolate.
10. Then milk chocolate, allow to set.
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The night before you make the cookies, place the dried cherries in a small bowl of crème de cassis. Cherry Almond Whipped Shortbread Cookies These buttery, melt in your mouth Cherry Almond Whipped Shortbread Cookies have a delicious red cherry in the center of each cookie. If you are an almond lover, the almond and cherry flavor pair perfectly in this light cookie making it irresistible! Certainly, not a cookie that a baker has much control over during the baking process. Add the almond extract, dried cherries and orange zest and stir well.