Monday, April 30, 2012

Rose Sugar Shortbread


 I took the rose sugar I had created and used it in this recipe.  You could make this shortbread with other flavors of sugar too.  The original recipe used  1 tsp. of finely chopped sage leaves mixed with the sugar listed below in the ingredients. Recipe source: The Herb Quarterly Summer 2010.

Ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp. kosher salt
2 tbsp. plus 1 tsp. sugar
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened 

Place an oven rack in the middle position and heat the oven to 350 degrees.  Sift flour and salt into a medium bowl.   Then mix in your 2 tbsp. of rose sugar or whatever sugar you desire.  Add the butter and stir with a fork to make a soft dough.  Gently pat the dough into a 9x9 inch baking pan.  Prick all over with a fork and sprinkle the remaining teaspoon of rose sugar and sprinkle evenly over the dough.  

Bake the shortbread until lightly golden, 20 to 30 minutes.  Cut into 1x3 inch fingers while the bread is still quite warm, then let it cool completely in the pan before separating.  makes about 27 fingers.


 Enjoy!
Sherry
I will link this to:
Friday Food at Mom Trends
Foodie Friday at Designs by Gollum
Thriving on Thursdays  at Domesblissity
On the Menu Monday at Stonegable 
Rooted in Thyme Simple and Sweet Fridays

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your bread looks delicious and thank you for the recipe.

Gretchen

Mary Palumbo Collings said...

That looks lovely and delicious!!! Have a great day...
Ciao,
Mary

Pura Vida said...

I can just tell this is so delicious and that sweet little plate? Well, it's just sweet!

Mary Palumbo Collings said...

Thanks for your nice comments Sherry, glad you like.
Ciao,
Mary

pembrokeshire lass said...

yup.....will you send me some !!?? Joan

Carolyn said...

It sure looks pretty!

Carolyn

LadyV said...

looks delicious! The setting is very charming.

Blessings,

Vee

Stan and Jody Gabara said...

This recipe l have to try. I love shortbread and your rose sugar is perfect for this recipe. Beautiful photos!

Jody

Claudine from ReStory.ca said...

YUMMM!!! It looks delicious and it seems simple to make!!!
I recently bought a tea trolley... ooohh... I will have to make this shortbread to serve with tea...
Thank you for the recipe!

Lauren @ My Wonderfully Made said...

YUM! I'm pinning this to my tea party board -- it would be a great addition!

April J Harris said...

What lovely shortbread! I make vanilla sugar all the time, but I had never thought about rose sugar. What a wonderful idea!

Stan and Jody Gabara said...

Hi Sherry, Thanks so much for sharing on Simple & Sweet Fridays. The shortbread looks so good!


Jody

msslynne said...

I just made some rose sugar today and accidentally found this site-but decided to use my frozen whole lemon from my freezer and grate it into sugar instead, so I used 2 tablespoons of lemon sugar and sprinkled it with an additional tablespoon of the rose sugar over the top after piercing with fork-came out lovely thanks for the recipe!