Sugar Cone Shortbread

Meet summer season’s excellent shortbread. I call them sugar cone shortbread, because, you guessed it, they’re constituted of sugar cones. They’re neatly off, buttery, salty-candy, toasty, and delightfully crumbly, with the style of the sugar cones front and center. And they couldn’t be easier to create: Use frigid butter straight from the fridge, crush the sugar cones and create the dough in the bowl of a meals processor, then press it straight sincere into a sheet pan (no logs to originate, relax, and reduce; no rolling required). By scoring the shapes of the cookies with a knife sooner than baking, they’re a cinch to slice serve and take some distance from the pan after they’re performed.

That you must per chance well revel in them straight out of hand, but my favorite ability to transfer? An initiate-confronted ice cream sandwich, served in a dish. They’re so easy to create and and offer so many potentialities for toppings: hot fudge, sprinkles, chopped nuts, novel berries, you name it.

—EmilyC

Directions

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Evenly butter the underside and sides of a 13×9 pan (or quarter sheet pan).
   
2. Spoil the sugar cones into objects with your fingers and add them to the bowl of a meals processor. Pulse till finely ground, about 30 to forty five seconds. Add the flour, brown sugar, and salt and pulse diverse occasions till neatly constructed-in. Add the butter and pulse till the mix is crumbly (about 15 to twenty seconds). Scrape down the sides and scurry just a few occasions, if fundamental. Add the vanilla extract, and pulse again till colossal, damp clumps initiate to originate, about 10 to fifteen seconds longer.
   
3. Flip the dough out into the ready pan, kneading it just a few occasions if smooth crumbly. The usage of a flat-bottomed glass, measuring cup, or your fingers, press the dough to originate an even layer.
   
4. Rating the dough lightly with a knife, marking 4 rows by 6 rows to originate 24 2-walk shortbread squares. Dock every bar just a few times with a fork. Sprinkle the turbinado sugar evenly over the dough.
   
5. Bake for 25 to half-hour, till shortbread is lightly browned all the draw in which thru and agency to the contact.
   
6. When performed, take away pan from oven and transfer to a cooling rack. While the shortbread is smooth hot, exercise a knife to absolutely slice serve the shortbread alongside the strains you scored outdated to baking. Allow shortbread to chill fully in the pan. Once cold, the shortbread bars will damage apart very easily. Retailer in an airtight container. They’re going to sustain neatly for about 2 weeks.