For me, few things taste more like Christmas than clementines and shortbread cookies. So while pondering what kind of cookies to make for Christmas this year, I thought, why not combine them?! Although I made this recipe up as I went along, they turned out so great (unlike the caramels, which took six attempts to get just right!).

INGREDIENTS

1 ½ cups flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup icing sugar
3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
zest of 2 clementines
for the glaze;
1 cup icing sugar
2 tablespoons clementine juice
sprinkles, if desired

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350F (~180C). In a small mixing bowl, sift together the flour, cornstarch, and icing sugar. Set aside.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the butter, sugar, and salt. Mix on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Add the zest, and mix for two minutes more.

Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture, and mix together by hand using a wooden spoon, until the dough comes together.

On a floured surface, roll the dough out until it is 1/4″ thick. Cut desired shapes with a cutter; re-roll only once.

Bake on parchment lined sheets for ~10 minutes, until slightly golden on the edges. Cool completely on a cooling rack.

Prepare the glaze;
Whisk together the icing sugar and clementine juice. Transfer the glaze to a squeezy bottle, and drizzle over the cookies. Add sprinkles. Let cookies sit for a few hours before stacking / storing.

Chomp! Omnomnom. Tastes like Christmas!