• Board Chair Shares Recipe
    For Shortbread Cookies

    Posted by Josh Flory on 12/19/2019
    Board of Education Chair Susan Horn got the recipe for Glazed Raspberry Almond Shortbread Cookies from her mother-in-law: It just has that little bit of an almond flavor and they’re really good.
    Board of Education Chair Susan Horn got the recipe for Glazed Raspberry Almond Shortbread Cookies from her mother-in-law: "It just has that little bit of an almond flavor, and they’re really good."  

    As chair of the Knox County Board of Education, Susan Horn spends plenty of time visiting schools, leading board meetings and shaping policy for the school district.

    But when she needs to unwind, Horn sometimes turns to a different kind of work. “I’m not the best cook in the world, but I can bake. It’s kind of a nice stress reliever. You have the science of baking and you end up with pretty predictable results, which I like.”

    In preparation for the holidays, Hall Pass asked Horn to share one of her favorite recipes: Glazed Raspberry Almond Shortbread Cookies.

    She said the recipe is a favorite of her mother-in-law, who makes the cookies for Christmas.

    “I love the almond flavoring ... Anything that I bake, it never looks perfect,” Horn said. “So I love that these have the icing, because you can hide a lot of sins with a little bit of icing.”

     

    Ingredients

    Cookies

    2/3 cup sugar

    1 cup butter

    ½ tsp. almond extract

    2 cups all purpose flour

    ½ cup raspberry jam

     

    Glaze

    1 cup confectioner sugar

    ½ tsp. almond extract

    2-3 tsp. water

     

    Directions

    Cookies

    Combine sugar, butter and almond extract.

    Beat at medium speed until creamy (2-3 minutes).

    Reduce speed to low and add flour.

    Beat until well mixed.

    Cover and chill at least one hour.

    Shape dough into 1” balls.

    Place balls on cookie sheet 2” apart.

    Make an indentation in center of each cookie.

    Fill with about 1/8 tsp. jam.

    Bake at 350 for 14-18 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Let cookies cool completely.

     

    Glaze

    Stir ingredients together with whisk.

    Drizzle over cookies.

     

    Makes about 3½ dozen

    Susan Horn says that nothing she bakes looks perfect, but you can hide a lot of sins with a little bit of icing.
    Susan Horn says that nothing she bakes looks perfect, but "you can hide a lot of sins with a little bit of icing."