The 3rd Day of Christmas with Liz Curtis Higgs
Welcome to the 7th annual 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways!!!
12 Days.
12 friends guest posting sharing a Christmas idea, recipe or favorite with you.
12 great giveaways for you to enter along with one GRAND PRIZE for someone who comments to enter all 12 days!!
Today for our 3rd Day of Christmas we are featuring the lovely and laughter-generating Liz Curtis Higgs!
Liz Curtis Higgs is the author of more than 30 books with 4.5 million copies in print, including her latest bestseller, The Women of Christmas.
Her messages are biblical, encouraging, down-to-earth, and profoundly funny.
Liz has one goal: to help women embrace the grace of God with joy and abandon!
A kitchen-tested recipe for Scottish Shortbread
from Liz Curtis Higgs
Shortbread served with tea is a Scottish tradition worth embracing. Why not brew a pot of Earl Grey or Scottish Breakfast tea and serve it piping hot (I love mine with milk and sugar). While you are enjoying your first cup, it’s time to do a bit of baking.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
1/2 cup cornstarch
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup butter, softened
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
Instructions:
Sift confectioners’ sugar, cornstarch, and flour together in a bowl. Add softened butter, using your hands to knead the mixture into dough. Wrap dough in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for no longer than 30 minutes.
Press cold dough into the bottom of a greased 8 x 8 pan (round or square; glass is best).
Bake at 325 for 30 minutes or until the edges are very lightly browned.
Sprinkle granulated sugar across the top. Cool completely, then cut into 8 servings.
P.S. Want to bake a bigger batch? Double the recipe and use a glass oblong baking dish. Want a more festive look? Used colored granulated sugar for the final dusting.
Now that you’re nibbling on fresh-from-the-oven shortbread, pop over to Pinterest to enjoy A Victorian visit to Stirling, Scotland, the setting for my Christmas novella, A Wreath of Snow. As they say in the U.K., “Happy Christmas!”
{You can find Liz online at her Blog, Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.}
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Liz has generously offered a delightful package of goodies to the winner of today’s drawing. Giveaway:
The Women of Christmas book, autographed
Set of 3 candles
1 pair of 5×7 prints
The Pine Tree Parable book for children
Magnets for each season of the Parable series
A Wreath of Snow novella
A Victorian ornament
Total retail value: $50
To enter for a chance to win, simply enter a comment on today’s post sharing a Christmastime food tradition you enjoy making or eating.
Don’t forget to come back for all 12 days! {And remember, if you comment on all 12 posts, you might win the Grand Prize!}
We always enjoy making oreo truffles together.
monk5 at charter dot net
We used to make Butter cookies and peanut butter balls. yum
We always make many different types of Christmas cookies and them package them up to give as gifts!
Love shortbread! Thank you, Liz! I am going to have to read your books. You can’t beat a Biblical teaching with humor! :) Growing up, and still today, we have two types of chocolate fudge, date loaf, whipping cream pound cake, pecan pie, chocolate pie and coconut pie. Yummy sugar overload!
Blessings – thanking God for some amazing women in our midst.
KK
We have always made shortbread cookies. My husbands grandparents were from Scotland so this is an important tradition.
I have been reading both of Liz’s Christmas books I love them.
This looks delicious. Can’t wait to try it.
My mom always made banana pudding for each holiday because that was my favorite as a kid. Now that she is gone, my daughters keep up the tradition. Love it!
I love shortbread, so I am looking forward to trying this recipe. Thank you for sharing it. Our family looks forward to homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast each holiday morning. I enjoy the process and they taste so much better than the canned variety!
My mom’s Christmas cookies are my favorite things to eat
Fudge and snickerdoodles. Every. single. year. I love them!!!
We love to make and decorate cookies on Christmas Eve. There are other foods my kids love that we typically only do at the Holidays because they are so indulgent. They always request Oreo balls and peanut butter balls this time of year.
Is anyone else hungry? Our school always did this big Gingerbread House day where ALL the kids made gingerbread houses out of graham crackers, icing and candy. It’s an art project led by the art teacher. Well, we’ve moved to a different town…so we’ll be continuing that fun at home.
Thank you for this recipe! So easy, yet it is so elegant and delicious! I just LOVE baking cookies at Christmas time! This year I plan to make lots and give them away!!
Thank you Liz for a yummy recipe! When my children were young we used to make & bake for the holidays. This just brought back special memories of that. Maybe I will bake a few of my favorites again for others for Christmas this year too…starting with your recipe!??????????
Strawberry pretzel salad :)
I’m terrible in the kitchen! I had visions of making sugar cookies for years and gave up….I just enjoy my sis-in-laws ;). I always make puppy chow and choc covered pretzels….and corn casserole and cheesy potatoes! :) thx for sharing! I’m intrigued by your book….I may just have to go get it!
I enjoyed reading about making shortbread cookies I thought they would be much more difficult. I already live tea so I will have to make some amd have tea at the same time. Every Christmas for our Christmas eve gathering we love to make pretzel salad. Everyone enjoys it from young to mature! With a red hello and coolwhip it looks like christmas. Since I am NOT from Scotland I will say Merry Christmas and so glad Jesus was born, to walk on this earth and then die and rise again so I would have the opportunity to live in heaven for eternity! !
I am definitely going to make this shortbread with my granddaughters, I make sweet potato casserole for my co workers. It started out as my contribution to our Christmas luncheon and has gained momentum over the years. Merry Christmas and God bless.
I enjoy all of the different candies, homemade and store bought, that are available this time of year. (Fudge, chocolate covered cherries, old-fashioned southern divinity with pecans, peanut brittle, and peanut butter “buckeyes”)
I love your recipe-thank you.
Tamales are always a Christmas tradition. Spicy Chicken and Sweet Tamales are my favorite.
We love to make Rosettes every Christmas season. For years when our kids were young they helped their grandparents make them, and what a special time it was!
My favorite Christmas food tradition is cookies. I make raspberry thumbprint cookies and chocolate icebox cookies. My husband makes his mom’s sugar cookies sprinkled with red or green sugar. Delicious!
My mother-in-law taught me to make Noel balls several years ago and it has been a tradition in our family ever since.
Thank you! Love your books and can’t wait to try your shortbread recipe! My girls and I love to bake at Christmas- all kinds of cookies, especially! And Earl Grey tea is a favorite as well!