JASMINE SHORTBREAD SANDWICHES WITH GRAPEFRUIT CURD

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Jasmine Shortbread Sandwiches with Grapefruit Curd image

These shortbread cookies contain ground jasmine tea, which lends a sweet, floral balance to their tart grapefruit-curd filling.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Dessert & Treats Recipes     Cookie Recipes

Time 4h15m

Yield Makes 20

Number Of Ingredients 8

2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
Coarse salt
2 tablespoons ground organic jasmine tea
Fine sanding sugar, for pressing
1/3 cup Grapefruit Curd

Steps:

  • Beat together butter and confectioners' sugar with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until smooth, about 3 minutes. Beat in vanilla. Add flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and the tea, and beat on low speed until just combined (do not overmix). Form dough into 2 disks, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate at least 1 hour and up to overnight.
  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Working with 1 disk at a time, roll out dough between pieces of parchment to a 1/8-inch thickness. Freeze until firm, about 10 minutes. Cut out 20 squares with a 2 3/4-inch square cookie cutter, then cut each in half to make 40 rectangles.
  • Gently press 1 flat side of 20 rectangles in sanding sugar, and arrange on a parchment-lined baking sheet, sugar side up. Bake until pale gold, 16 to 18 minutes. Let cookies cool on a wire rack. Repeat with remaining rectangles.
  • Spread 1 generous teaspoon curd onto unsugared side of half the cookies, then sandwich with remaining cookies.

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