Almond Blood Orange Shortbread Cookies

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These buttery, crumbly almond blood orange shortbread cookies are a dream, with almond extract and blood orange zest in the cookies topped with fresh blood orange glaze.

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Until now, all but 3 of 10 recipes for shortbread cookies on my blog start with the same base recipe. Even more unusual is that these blood orange shortbread cookies are the first version to be baked in bar form as opposed to slice-and-bake or cut-outs.

Somehow after over 12 years in the blogging world there are still new food adventures to explore. It is for that reason that I rarely make the same thing twice, except when making varieties of a certain recipe such as the aforementioned shortbread cookies (and especially my favorite chewy chocolate chip cookies).

I finally decided to give another shortbread recipe a try after sampling the original base recipe for these when a coworker brought shortbread into work – I immediately knew I needed the recipe. The biggest difference from the recipe I normally turn to is the used of both powdered and granulated sugar instead of just powdered, so instead of tender shortbread you get crunchier which is just as good for different reasons.

Of course from there I still had to add my own flair to the base recipe, so I pulled inspiration from my blood orange ricotta cookies and made these blood orange shortbread cookies! Which later led to my blood orange curd tart.

Ingredients for Almond Blood Orange Shortbread Cookies

• flour
• salt
• butter
• powdered sugar
• granulated sugar
• blood orange
• vanilla extract
• almond extract

Why do you poke holes in the shortbread?

You will notice that the directions indicate poking holes in the dough immediately upon removal from the oven. Do you have to poke holes in shortbread cookies? The short answer is, yes. By poking holes in the cookies, excess moisture is able to escape and the remaining heat evenly distributes evenly through the cookie while it cools. This results in perfectly dense, crumbly shortbread cookies.

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Source: Adapted from Williams Sonoma’s Scotch Shortbread and my Blood Orange Ricotta Cookies.

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