Pecan Shortbread Cookies
Heat Oven to 325 degrees F
Ingredients:
2 cups butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla (I use a skoosh more)
2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1-1/2 cups chopped pecans (closer to 1-3/4 cups)
4 cups flour
Directions:
- Cream butter, sugars and vanilla until light and fluffy
- Beat in eggs
- Set aside
- Combine remaining ingredients and add to butter mixture
- Mix well
- Roll into 1 inch balls OR use cookie scoop to place on cookie sheet
- Flatten with a glass or cookie press, dipped in sugar
- Bake 8-15 minutes depending on your oven and desired texture—chewy or crisp
- Place on cooling rack
- Cookies are fragile; store in air-tight containers
Bah Humbug Mate
A Mystic River Shifters Holiday Novella
“What do you mean I need to be mated by the winter holiday? Are you kidding me?” Dash said as he paced back and forth in the attorney’s office.
“Look, Dash, I didn’t write the damn will. Well, I guess technically I did, but your grandmother was very particular. She was very angry you left the herd. So, if you want to inherit what I agree is rightfully yours, you need to be married by the holiday deadline.”
“Which is?”
“December 24.”
“You aren’t serious.”
“I’m afraid I am. Your grandmother took these kinds of things seriously.”
“For heaven’s sake, Blitz, where the hell am I supposed to find a comely, female reindeer-shifter in the next…” he glanced at the calendar on the wall “twenty-three days?”
“Honestly, I don’t know, and there are provisions that will have you tied to this girl for at least ten years.”
Dash plopped down in the chair. “A decade? I have to spend a decade with some girl I don’t even know?”
“You know lots of girls,” said Blitzen.
“And none of them I’d want to marry.”
“Dude, for that kind of fortune, I’d marry Godzilla.”
“Do you have her number?”
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