Brown Sugar Shortbread with Cinnamon Sprinkle

These shortbread cookies are sweet, crumbly and almost melt in your mouth. 

 

Ingredients:

- 1c butter, rom temperature

- 1/2c sugar

- 1/2c packed light brown sugar

- 1t vanilla

- 1/8t salt

- 2c flour

- Sprinkle of cinnamon and sugar

Combine the butter, sugar, and brown sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer and cream until blended.  Add vanilla and salt and mix.  Then mix in the flour 1c at a time.  

Compact the dough into a ball - you may have to press it together to get it to all stick in one ball.

Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to about 1/4 inch thick.  Cut out and place on a cookie sheet.  Sprinkle with a mixture of equal parts cinnamon and sugar.

Bake at 325 degrees for about 7 minutes.