Pomegranate & Pine Nut Brown Sugar Shortbread

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment.
2. In a mixing bowl, cream the butter with the brown sugar till light and creamy, 2-3 minutes. Beat within the molasses and the vanilla.
3. In a separate bowl, slide together the flour, salt, cinnamon and cardamom.
4. Gently dart the flour combination into the butter combination in two or three batches, making determined now now not to over mix. Flip the dough onto a lightly floured surface – this may perhaps perhaps well perhaps be gentle, if critical, leisure it within the fridge for 20 minutes.
5. Knead the dough 3-4 times, till it turns into a fragile ball. Switch the dough onto the parchment lined baking sheet. Pat the dough into a circle with your palms, then continue gently with a rolling pin till that you can well perhaps presumably delight in a 7 bolt diameter circle.
6. Gash in all places with a fork and acquire into 8 (or 16) wedges with a sharp knife. Sprinkle the pine nuts evenly over the surface and press them gently into the dough.
7. Bake till agency and the sides are golden, 30-35 minutes. Whereas unexcited warm gash alongside the acquire marks into wedges. Let the cookies cold fully on the baking sheet.