Earlier this year, I found one of my favorite treasures ever – a McCall’s Cookbook from 1963 (a first printing). Within it is the most basic cookie – a brown-sugar shortbread cookie – and that’s what I put together here with a starry twist!
I am someone who likes to make things up as I go in the kitchen, but I couldn’t pass up on such a foundational find.
Clicking the image above will take you to an Amazon listing (but it is hardly available) *affiliate linkIt isn’t in the best shape, but I like to think that it once belonged to someone who loved being in the kitchen as much as I do.
Note: You will need to refer to my recipe for Starfruit Jam for making these cookies. Make the dough first, and then the jam while the dough is refrigerated for a couple hours. You can also use this shortbread cookie recipe as pie crust – so good!
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Brown-Sugar Shortbread Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- .5 cup brown sugar
- 2.5 cups all-purpose flour sifted
- .5 cup Starfruit Jam see my recipe link in post
- 1 tbsp confectioners sugar
Instructions
- In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Stir in flour until smooth and well combined. Dough will be stiff.
- Cover and refrigerate dough for 2-3 hours. Make starfruit jam during this time.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees (McCalls says 300).
- Cut cookies. Top each with about a tsp of Starfruit Jam. Sandwich with another cookie (I cut out a star in my topper cookies).
- Place cookies at least 1 inch apart and bake for 15 minutes.
- Allow to cool and sprinkle with confectioners sugar.
This looks amazing. I love starfruit cookies but never tried to make it myself. I will have to try this. Thanks for sharing!
I love starfruit but have never had it as a jam. How interesting. I particularly like that there’s ginger in the jam. I’m really curious about how starfruit jam tastes.
It’s really good and I make it to preserve the fruit since once it’s ripe it doesn’t take much time to go bad.
Never had starfruit before – but these look AMAZING!!
OMGosh! These cookies are so adorable. And I love how your photos give us an idea of the thickness of the rolled dough. This recipe inspires me to get into the kitchen and get baking. I can only imagine how wonderful your house smelled when these cookies came out of the oven! 🙂
It’s so tempting! 🙂
I love starfruit and these would make a perfect holiday cookie. I definitely will make these–and how fun to give as gifts. Pinning.
What a fun recipe! Those look so good, and I never even thought to make starfruit jam, but how perfect with the star cutouts 🙂
These cookies are so beautiful. I love vintage cook books!
These look so yummy! Can’t wait to try!!
THose look sooo good! I love all kinds of shortbread cookies.
So cute! Starfruit jam in the star cutouts.
Hi! We have a starfruit tree in our backyard. Came across your recipe which is amazing and easy to make! Not only did I make the starfruit jam for the cookies but I’ve been using it as a topping for my hot Grapenuts cereal, swirling it in my plain Greek yogurt and it’s a great filling for my homemade crepes! The starfruit-ginger combo is new concept to me that I can’t seem to get enough of! Will definitely be making the jam again! I’m thinking mini pies or tartlets!
Hey Debbie – I’m so glad you are enjoying the starfruit jam recipe! It IS so versatile and it’s awesome that you have found multiple ways to use the fruit of your tree. For the upcoming holidays, you could even give small (maybe 4 oz.) mason jars of the jam as a gift. In fact, you can even prep yogurt in advance in these (2-3 days) with the jam for a quick snack. Thanks so much for sharing your success with the recipe <3