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Vanilla Bean Sugar Cookies are the sweet cousin of your home made vanilla bean ice-cream. This soft and delicious treat also contain those vanilla "specs" from within your favorite vanilla type and are sure to please surprise the crowd. make this recipe and gift idea novel.
Ingredients
6 tablespoons butter (unsalted)
1 cup sugar or Vanilla Sugar
2 tablespoons vegetable shortening
3 vanilla beans
1 large egg
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
Preparation
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Place shortening, 3/4 cup sugar, and butter in a large bowl. Beat until smooth with electric mixer.
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Split the vanilla beans, and scrape seeds into the bowl
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Whisk in egg until blended
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Sift dry ingredients into bowl, stirring just until blended
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Roll dough into roughly 2 inch tall log. Chill until firm or minimum of 4 hours.
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Cut dough into 1/4 inch discs. cover each side of disk with remaining sugar.
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Arrange cookies onto non-greased pan roughly 1/2 inch apart.
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Place into preheated oven at 375 degrees. Cook until sides tan or roughly 10-12 minutes. Enjoy
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