Ingredients:
o 1 cup (2 sticks) of butter, softened
o 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
o 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
o a clean bottle cap or other small circular cut-out device
o cookie cutter
Directions:
Step 1: Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
Step 2: In the bowl of a stand mixer (or just use a hand mixer and a large bowl of your choice), whip together your butter and brown sugar.
Step 3: Very slowly add the flour until all ingredients are fully incorporated.
Step 4: Place the dough out onto a floured surface and knead until the dough is smooth (should not take more than a minute). Roll the dough to about 1/3" thick.
Step 5: Cut out triangle shapes using the cookie cutter or a knife.
Step 6: Press the bottle cap or other circular object into the dough in the style of the 'Deathly Hallows' symbol. Carve a line down the middle with a knife to create the wand part of the symbol.
Step 7: Place onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper (or wax paper). These cookies don't spread out in the oven so feel free to put them quite close together. Bake these in your 300 degree oven for about 20 minutes, until slightly golden.
Step 8: Allow to cool slightly and then transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.
Step 9: As with all shortbread, you can eat them plain, give them a sweet frosting glaze, or sandwich them together with some chocolate or caramel. These are really quick and tasty.
What went well? We were much more organized then the first time we all cooked together and the recipe was followed beginning to end and we were also doing very well at cleaning up after ourselves after and were putting everything away.
What didn’t go so well? The cookies didn’t taste all that well to my likings and wasn’t the best decision to make to make the cookies.
What will I do next time? Make the cookies more sweet because before they just didn’t taste like cookies.
Something I learned? Try adding something more to a recipe if you REALLY think that the end product will taste bad.
