Easy Brown Sugar Shortbread Puffs

"The Puffs"

"Flattened"

Drizzled

This may turn out to be the easiest cookie I ever make.  There are only 5 ingredients that the majority of people have on-hand (butter, brown sugar,vanilla, egg yolk and flour).  Now, if you add the drizzle on the top then you have to add 2 more ingredients (powdered sugar and milk), but that's pretty easy too.

I did end up changing it slightly.  It said to just "drop them by teaspoons onto the cookie sheet", but I found, at least for me, they did not cook all the way through before browning on the bottom.  My daughter said they tasted fine this way, but I decided to flatten them before I put them in the oven.  I guess that takes the "Puff" out of these, but not the flavor.

I tried something new with the drizzle.  I've heard to mix it up and then put it in a baggie and cut the tip off to drizzle.  I've done this in the past and it works great!  I decided why not mix the ingredients up in the bag - save a dish?  Well, initially I thought, "This is not working."  As I kept mixing and smudging, it all mixed together and turned out just fine.  You just have to watch the corners.

The puffed cookies were soft.  The flattened ones became crunchy when cooled.  The cookies by themselves were good, but the drizzle gave them that little added touch of sweet.  They will probably be really good with coffee...  Oh yeah, Yum!

The reviews so far have been good on these cookies.  I liked them much better than the last ones.  Drizzle is much better than frosting, in my opinion.  My daughter kept snitching them all night so I think she liked them a lot.  My 8 year old actually tried them which in itself is a compliment.  He said they were, "Very Good".  My husband said they were "good".  His mind seemed on other things last night so I'm not sure whether his review is real accurate this week.  The little 4 year old has been sick so we'll have to wait for her review.  Poor little one.

At this point (without the little ones vote) this cookie gets a 4.5 out of 5.

Next up?  Chocolate Chip Cookies.  Yeah, I know, I found this funny too.  We've already decided we'll be doing one of the variations listed.