Apricot Almond Shortbread

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Tender and delicious with subtle flavors of fruit and almonds, this shortbread cookie recipe is versatile and easy. It has been a standard pairing at Johnson Estate Winery with their Vidal Blanc Ice Wine, a well-balanced, complex ice wine with soft, earthy aromas of golden raisins and honeycomb that work in tandem with the apricot preserves. It’s a light bodied wine that deserves a classic, crumbly companion, and the shortbread is a reliably sweet morsel to serve alongside.

It’s an end-of-summer dessert duo great to taste at home. For an equally sweet dessert option, try Johnson Estate’s Blueberry Concord Grape Tart.

Apricot Almond Shortbread

Ingredients

2/3 cup sugar

1 cup softened butter

½ tsp almond extract

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 cup unbleached white flour

¼ cup ground flax seeds (optional)

¼ cup ground almonds (optional)

½ cup strawberry, raspberry or apricot jam

Instructions

Beat sugar, butter, and extract until creamy and then add flour and almonds and process until the dough clumps together. 

Chill dough approx. 1-2 hours.  Shape dough into balls (or roll dough into a 1 ¼” diameter log and slice) and flatten slightly. 

Make indentations in the center of each cookie (easily done with the champagne cork) and fill with jam. Bake 12-18 minutes on a cookie tray until cookies are slightly brown.  

Frosting

1 cup powdered sugar

1 ½ tsp. almond extract

2 tsp water

Instructions

Mix thoroughly and put into quart-sized plastic bag, cutting a tiny hole in tip. 

Use this bag to drizzle frosting on room temperature cookies.   

Mini-Tarts

If you make these cookies on the large side, the filling will be slightly sticky and is the perfect vehicle for a tart – just add a few fresh berries on top.  


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