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My two year old is already in love with Christmas, and is even starting to memorize The Night Before Christmas. She love to repeat the line, “Visions of Sugarplums danced in their heads.” What the heck is a sugar plum anyway? Well, it’s a thing! And this is one cookie that brings together all things Christmas in one classic, sugar cookie. She may not be flashy, but she’s the real McCoy. Please enjoy reading the original article as well as the recipe that follows at the Wicked Good Ktichen:
Sugar Plum Shortbread Christmas Cookies – Wicked Good Kitchen
Ingredients:
- 2½ cups (310 g) unbleached all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon (1.25 g) fine-quality ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon (.65 g) freshly ground whole nutmeg
- ¼ cup (27 g) finely chopped toasted pecans, see Recipe Notes
- 6 tablespoons (75 g) granulated cane sugar or vanilla sugar, see Recipe Notes
- 1½ tablespoons (9 g) freshly grated orange zest
- 1 cup (2 sticks or 226 g) salted butter, cut into small bits
- Homemade or prepared Sugar Plum Jam, or favorite red jam, strained
- Granulated sugar, for sprinkling
- Sparkling white sugar, for sprinkling
