Canadian Maple Shortbread

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup maple syrup (use the real thing!)
• 1 cup butter, at room temperature (use butter, not margarine)
• 3/4 cup maple butter
• 2 cups flour
• 1 pinch salt

Recipe

• 1 maple butter: in a small saucepan, bring the maple syrup to a boil and reduce by half (this should take about 15 minutes) remove from heat and let it stand at room temp.
• 2 when it is cool, add the butter and stir or gently whisk until well blended.
• 3 place in frigde until firm.
• 4 this makes about 3/4 cup.
• 5 shortbread: in a food processor or blender, combine the maple butter, flour and salt.
• 6 use the pulse setting to combine well the ingredients.
• 7 take it out of the blender/food processor and shape it into a ball.
• 8 flatten it to a disc shape.
• 9 wrap in plastic and refrigerate until well chilled.
• 10 preheat oven to 350f and position rack to centre of oven.
• 11 remove dough from the fridge and roll it out to about 1/4 inch thickness.
• 12 cut dough into desired shapes (i use a maple leaf shaped cookie cutter... very canadian, eh?) place cookies on ungreased cookie sheet and bake until slightly golden brown (about 10-15 min, depending on your oven).