Thursday, February 24, 2022

By Aggieskitchen

Espresso Shortbread Cookies with Irish Whiskey Glaze are a great snack or gift for guests.

Espresso Shortbread Cookies with Irish Whiskey Glaze

Ingredients:

2 sticks unsalted Irish butter, room temperature (I used non-Irish Land O Lakes, its all I had)
3/4 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon course salt
2 cups flour
1 tablespoon ground espresso or coffee

Glaze:

1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup Irish whiskey (I used Jameson, if you don't want to buy a big bottle, look for a nip at your liquor store)
2 tablespoons butter

Directions:

Heat oven to 325 degrees. Stir together butter, sugar, and salt in a bowl. Mix in about half the flour; stir in the ground coffee. Stir in remaining flour; combine thoroughly. Using damp fingers, press into two buttered 8 inch round cake pans.
Bake in center of the oven until golden brown, 30-35 minutes. Remove from the oven. Immediately cut each pan into 8 wedges but leave in pan. Cool completely.
For glaze, pour sugar and half of whiskey into a small saucepan. Heat to a boil over high heat; boil rapidly 1 minute. Remove from heat, whisk in butter. Whisk in remaining whiskey. Let set to thicken slightly, about 1 minute. Spoon over shortbread, using the back of your spoon to cover evenly. When glaze is set, carefully remove cookies from pan.
Would be delicious served with small scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.