Cranberry Orange Shortbread

Today I made cranberry orange shortbread cookies. I started by blending cranberry and sugar in a foods processor and then I zested an orange and set it aside. In a large bowl I combined the rest of the sugar, flour, cut cold butter into cubes and then blended it all with a pastry blender until the mixture resembled fine cubes. I then added the zested orange, cranberries and almond extract as well as some orange juice and mixed it all together. I put the dough into a big ball and then rolled it out with my hands into a big log shape before sealing it in cellophane and putting it in the fridge for at least two hours. The next day I sliced the log into cookie pieces and sprinkled sugar overtop. I put the cookies on parchment paper on a cookie sheet and baked them at 325 degrees for about 12 minutes. These cookies tasted fruity and sweet, the flavour of orange and cranberry together was amazing. The cookies were soft but also slightly chewy, I would give them a 5/10 for nutrition because they have some fruit in them and not that much sugar but they have a lot of butter in them. Overall these cookies tasted better then normal shortbread cookies so I will defiantly make them again.

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