See. Leprechaun’s aren’t the only short thing on St Pat’s Day. (Terrible, we know).

Christmas is often a time when the shortbread comes out of the woodworks and makes a special guest appearance. But, it’s been a while since December, so we thought we should dust off those old recipes and make them relevant to one of the funnest days of the year – St Patrick’s Day.

These bad boys will be so delicious, you’re friends will be seeing green.

Clover shortbread st patricks day party supplies decorations

Clover shortbread st patricks day party supplies decorations

What you’ll need…

  • 1 cup salted butter
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups AP flour
  • 1/2 cup corn starch
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • green food colouring

How to…

  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
  2. In a stand mixer, beat butter until smooth (don’t over mix.) Add powdered sugar and blend.
  3. In a separate bowl, mix flour and cornstarch.
  4. Slowly add the flour mixture to the butter mixture.
  5. Add vanilla.
  6. Make sure you don’t over mix your dough.
  7. Remove about 3/4 of your dough and place on a floured surface.
  8. Add some green food colouring to the remaining 1/4 of the dough still in the mixer. Mix until colour is even.
  9. Roll out your dough (both colours).
  10. This is the tricky part and you can do it which ever way is easier. Cut small clovers out of both colours and place the green clovers into the white clover “holes”. Now cut out larger clovers from the white with green clovers dough.
  11. Place on a parchment lined cookie sheet and bake for 12 minutes.
  12. Cool on a cookie rack.

For other St Pat’s Day ideas, click here.

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