Hawaiian Shortbread Wedges Food

BLACK & WHITE SHORTBREAD WEDGES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on high speed 3 minutes or until light and fluffy. Combine flour and cornstarch. Gradually add to butter mixture, beating until well blended. Stir in chocolate.
• Shape dough into ball, then divide into 3 equal pieces. Flatten 1 piece into 4-inch round on baking sheet. Score into 8 wedges with sharp knife. Repeat with remaining dough.
• Bake 30 minutes or until shortbread is set and lightly browned. Cool 5 minutes on baking sheet. Remove to wire racks; cool completely. Cut each round into 8 wedges to serve.

HAWAIIAN COCONUT SHORTBREAD COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream the butter until smooth. Add granulated sugar and vanilla, creaming again until smooth and slightly fluffy.
• Sift flour and then measure the 2 cups of flour. Add salt to flour and sift again.
• Gradually add to the creamed butter mixture until you have added all the flour and mixture is smooth. Mix the coconut into the cookie dough.
• Shape into a one and half (1.5) inch diameter roll and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate until it the dough is firm, about 2-4 hours, or for several days until ready to use. May be frozen for later baking.
• Using a sharp knife, cut 1/4 inch slices from the cookie dough roll and place on a very lightly greased cookie sheet, about 1 inch apart.
• Bake at 300 degrees for about 20 minutes, until a light golden brown at edges, but not browned entirely across the top.
• Cool cookies on sheet just until they are set, easy to remove and have cooled slightly, usually about 2 to 3 minutes. Remove cookies with a spatula and place on the 1 cup of powdered sugar that you have sifted onto a piece of wax paper or similar surface. Cover cookies with powdered sugar on all sides by sifting more sugar over them or "rolling" them in the sugar. After they have cooled and the powdered sugar has "set", you can coat them with more powdered sugar if you would like. Cool completely and then store in an airtight container, for however long you can keep them from being eaten!
• Try these the first time following the recipe as given. The next time, you can play around with adding other ingredients to tweak these to your exact tastes. Some ideas, toasting some of the coconut before adding to the dough, adding finely chopped macadamia nuts, ginger, cardamom or any citrus zest. Key lime zest and macadamias is a great combo, truly a cookie that takes you to tropical islands without the frequent flier miles :).

DIABETIC SHORTBREAD WEDGES

Steps:

• Combine flour, Equal® for Recipes or Equal® Spoonful?
• ,cornstarch, and salt in medium bowl, cut in margarine with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Sprinkle vanilla and almond extracts over mixture and stir in; mix with hands briefly until dough begins to hold together.
• Pat dough evenly in bottom of greased 8-inch round cake pan.
• Lightly cut dough into 12 wedges with sharp knife, cutting about halfway through dough.
• Pierce each wedge 2 to 3 times with tines of fork; press almond into each wedge.
• Bake in preheated 325*F (160*C) oven until shortbread is lightly browned 25 to 30 minutes.
• Cool on wire rack; cut into wedges while warm.

CHOCOLATE-DIPPED HAZELNUT SHORTBREAD WEDGES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F. and butter and flour two 8-inch round cake pans. In a food processor grind fine the hazelnuts with the flour and the sugar, add the butter, and blend the mixture until it is combined well. Press half the dough evenly onto the bottom of each of the pans, cut through each round of dough with a small knife to score 16 wedges, and bake the shortbread in the middle of the oven for 20 minutes, or until it is pale golden. While the shortbread is still warm, cut through the rounds again and let them cool in the pans on a rack. Choose 2 plates slightly smaller than the pans, put a plate directly on the surface of the shortbread, and invert the shortbread carefully onto it.
• In a metal bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water melt the chocolate with the shortening, stirring until the mixture is smooth, and transfer the mixture to a deep narrow cup or glass measure. Dip the points of the shortbread wedges into the chocolate mixture, coating them halfway and letting any excess drip off. Transfer the shortbread wedges as they are dipped to rack set over a sheet of wax paper and let them stand until the chocolate is set.

BASIC SHORTBREAD WEDGES

Steps:

• Butter an 8 1/2-inch cake or springform pan; set aside. Sift together flour and salt into a small bowl; set aside. Place butter in bowl of electric mixer fitted with paddle attachment. Cream until fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Add sugar, and continue to beat until very light in color and fluffy, occasionally scraping down the sides of the bowl with a spatula, about 2 minutes more. Add vanilla, if using. Add flour mixture, and combine on low speed, scraping with spatula if necessary, until flour is just incorporated and dough sticks together when squeezed with fingers.
• Pat dough into prepared pan. If rolling out dough to cut into shapes, form into a flat disk; wrap in plastic. Chill until firm, at least 1 hour.
• Heat oven to 325 degrees. Bake until firm and just starting to color, about 50 minutes. Cool completely on wire rack before packaging. Will keep 3 to 4 weeks in an airtight container.

HAWAIIAN SHORTBREAD WEDGES

Steps:

• Position a rack in the middle of an oven and preheat to 325-degrees (165C).
• On a baking sheet, mix together the coconut and macadamia nuts.
• Bake, stirring occasionally, until lightly toasted, about 8 minutes.
• Remove from oven and let cool- leave oven set at 325-degrees (165C).
• In a bowl, using an electric mixer set on medium speed, beat the butter until fluffy, about 4 minutes.
• Add the sugar and beat, stopping once or twice to scrape the sugar to the center of the bowl with a rubber spatula, until light, about 1 minute.
• Beat in the egg yolk, vanilla and salt.
• On low speed, beat in the flour and then the coconut mixture and the mango to form a soft dough.
• Divide the dough in half and press each half into a round cake pan 9 inches (23 cm) in diameter.
• Using fork tines, mark each round into 8 wedges.
• Bake until the shortbread is golden brown, about 20 minutes.
• Transfer the pans to a rack and, using the marks as guides, cut into wedges.
• Let cool completely.
• Store in an airtight container at room temp up to 3 days.