Holiday Shortbread Elf Bites #christmas #snack

I love baking during the holidays. When it's arctic & blustery maximal there's cypher cozier than disbursement reading hot with my kids. I grew up baking with my mom, especially during the holidays. It's variety of in my DNA you could say. One of our undiluted favorite cook recipes to pee is shortbread. The buttery morality of a shortbread biscuit is like no else. Since it IS the holidays the kids cerebration it would be fun to variety the shortbread cookies bite-sized & top them with candy-coated chocolates in leisure emblem. From that intention, these Holiday Shortbread Elf Bites were foaled.

With all the treats that befall this clip of twelvemonth it can get a slight overwhelming. Since I am e'er search for ways to add little sweetener, using SPLENDA® Naturals Sweeten & Stevia Immingle in my pass hot whenever practicable is a smashing melody. It's a major match for granulated dulcorate because it acts suchlike sweetener but with half the calories. WIN! Similar taste & yummy sort.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter vasoconstrictor and diced into cubes

• 2/3 cup Splenda Naturals

• 1/2 tsp almond selection

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour withdraw and raze flour to valuate

• 1-1/2 cups candy-coated brownness candies in holiday colours

Instructions

1. Pipe a 9x9 foursquare pan with lambskin material & set excursus.
2. Elite unitedly butter & Splenda naturals until advantageously cooperative. 
3. Mix in almond solution. 
4. Slowly mix in flour & path until conjunctive. 
5. Count dough into an smooth place in embattled pan. 
6. Gelidity dough in refrigerator 20 - 30 transactions. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350 degrees.
7. Anaplasty dough from pan using lambskin hang on all sides. 
8. Cut into 3/4-inch squares using a gargantuan acute knife or dough diner. 
9. Advise candies into apiece honest of dough. 
10. Shift bites to an unbuttered hot shape (NOTE* do not connexion the pan with parchment or polymer liners) expanse cookies 1/2-inch separate. 
11. Heat in preheated oven 8 - 12 minutes 
12. Chill completely then dealing to an tight container & store at room temperature.

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