The Best Shortbread You'll Ever Taste!

Recently, I made shortbread to attract people to my mom's presentation for a group at church. Everybody had some type of snack at their table, but I have to admit we were one of the tables that got the most traffic even if it was just for the cookies! Anyway, the recipe was different from what I've seen before because it used brown sugar instead of just regular. I definitely improved the taste.
Shortbread normally just 3 ingredients, and has a pretty simple process. Ahhh, I love those kinds of recipes...

Obviously, from the picture you should be able to tell that it is pretty tasty. The simpler the better I say, but you can fancy it up a bit by dipping them in chocolate. After that, you can leave it plain or sprinkle it with nuts and, yes, sprinkles. Sprinkle it with sprinkles? Sounds funny but tastes splendid! One more thing I must mention, is that you can cut them in different shapes, or use a rotary cutter to make fancy edges like in the picture below:

I, sadly, didn't have the time or ingredients to do my shortbread up all fancy. Nevertheless, it was a hit so if you can't and all the pomp, don't break a sweat! Here is the recipe I used in case you want to try it:

Brown Sugar Shortbread

Ingredients needed:

1 cup of softened butter (no substitutes!!!)

1/2 a cup of brown sugar

2 1/4 cups of all-purpose flower

Directions:

1. Cream butter and sugar in a mixing bowl.
2. Gradually stir in flour.
3. Turn onto a lightly-floured surface and need until smooth-about 3 minutes. You can also just use your mixer with the kneading attachment.
4. If you are doing rectangles, press it into a pan and use a knife to cut it into rectangles. You can also make shapes with cookie cutters. But those 1 inch apart on uncreased cookie sheets.
5. Prick with a fork.
6. Bake at 300 F for 25 minutes or until they become slightly brown.
7. Cool for 5 minutes and transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

Note: If you just throw the dough in a pan and cut the rectangles right in, you might need to pop apart with a butter knife when cool. They kind of meld together when so close.