Ina Garten's Shortbread Recipe Can Be Transformed Into FIVE Cookies! Ina Garten's shortbread recipe is all we want for Christmas this year. We all know and love Ina Garten, AKA the Barefoot Contessa, whose recipes have been blessed enough to infuse their way into kitchens across the country.
Add 1/4 cup granulated sugar, the salt, and vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, add the flour and mix until just combined. Dump the dough out onto a well-floured board and roll it into a ball. Cut the ball in quarters, wrap each piece in plastic, and refrigerate for 1 hour.
It does take an hour and quarter-hour — from begin to end — to make Garten’s Shortbread Cookies, featured on The Barefoot Contessa episode titled “Impromptu Dinner.” However they’re completely well worth the wait. The one components you’ll want are unsalted butter, sugar, pure vanilla extract, all-purpose flour, salt, and semi-sweet chocolate. 6.
Making 36 to 40 cookies, this recipe, pulled from Garten’s 2001 cookbook, Barefoot Contessa Parties, calls for walnuts, semisweet chocolate chunks, brown sugar and more. Get the recipe from James Merrell/Clarkson Potter/Food Network. Barefoot Contessa Parties!