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Salted Egg Yolk Shortbread

  • Author: Audrey

Description

The salted egg yolks take about 24 hours to make, so you should prep those a day in advance of when you want to make these cookies


Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 2 salted egg yolks (these instructions from Eat Little Bird are great)
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour


Instructions

  1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  2. In a bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream together butter and salted egg yolks on medium-high speed until smooth.
  3. Add powdered sugar to the butter-yolk mixture and cream together until smooth.
  4. Add the flour and mix on low and gradually increase to medium speed. Mix until no streaks of flour remain, about 1 – 2 minutes
  5. Cut a large piece of parchment paper. Transfer dough to parchment and take a second sheet of parchment paper the same size and roll out dough with a rolling pin. This will prevent the need to add extra flour to roll out the dough. If the dough is soft as this point, transfer it to the freezer to firm up for about 10 minutes.
  6. Using cookie cutters to stamp out cookies and transfer to prepare baking sheet. Repeat until all the dough is used up.
  7. Preheat the oven to 350℉.
  8. Once oven has preheated, transfer the tray of cookies to the oven to bake for 10 – 13 minutes, until the edges are golden.
  9. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to cooling rack to cool completely.