In between chocolate hearts on Valentine’s Day and chocolate bunnies on Easter, we need a palate cleanser. (One that’s still sugary sweet, of course!) Ina Garten has the perfect recipe for springtime cookies, and they’re so easy to bake at home. Enjoy a little taste of spring with Garten’s beautiful and yummy Daisy Shortbread Cookies!
The Barefoot Contessa walked viewers through this easy recipe in a video on Food Network’s YouTube Channel, which she was making for afternoon tea for a friend who just opened a new florist shop. And most of the ingredients you probably already have in your pantry!
Start with mixing butter, sugar, “good vanilla,” and other ingredients in an electric mixer. Garten uses the paddle attachment on low speed “just until [the ingredients] are combined.” It’s seriously that easy!
From there, she transfers the dough onto a floured board and shapes it into a “flat disk.” Wrap it in plastic wrap and chill the dough in the fridge for about 30 minutes before you work with it again.
“The key is that the dough is that right temperature,” Garten says in the video. “If it’s too hard, you can’t roll it out ‘cause it cracks. And if it’s too soft, you can’t roll it out because it won’t be soft edges.” The perfect middle? When the dough is “really cold, but still really pliable.”
Then roll it out on a floured board until it’s ¼-inch thick. From here, use a daisy-shaped cookie cutter to cut flower shapes into the dough. “I love shortbread; I make a million kinds of shortbread,” Garten says.
While these bake, whip up a sweet glaze using confectioners’ sugar. You’ll glaze the top of each cookie and place a white chocolate button in the center to finish the treat. Garten uses yellow to make them look just like “delicious daisies!” (BTW, we could watch Garten ice cookies all day. It’s so soothing!)
People praised this recipe in the comments. “My fave cookie ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️” one person wrote. Someone else said, “❤Shortbread Cookies❤ Thank you for your recipe and wonderful video teaching us your tips 😘”
Others pointed out that these cookies look more like fried eggs than daisies. Like this commenter who said, “It didn’t read daisy to me; I thought fried eggs 😂” You could always try a food coloring for the glaze or a different colored button in the middle if you want to switch it up!
Garten is a fan of easy dessert recipes, and these shortbread cookies are definitely going on rotation.
Get Garten’s Daisy Shortbread Cookies recipe, which was originally published in her 2008 Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics cookbook HERE.
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