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The Drinkware Hack For Super Fancy Shortbread Cookies
By Betsy Parks
While you can decorate shortbread cookies with sprinkles and frosting, a drinking glass with a pattern stamped into the bottom is all you need to jazz up a shortbread cookie.
Shortbread cookies have a dense dough that keeps its shape even after baking and can take on almost any pattern you press into it.
Many vintage and crystal cocktail glasses have intricate starburst shapes on the bottom that are perfectly sized for cookies. Simply press the base into a ball of shortbread dough.
The goal is to make the ball of cookie dough the right size so that when you press down on it with your glass, it flattens out to the same diameter.
The best glasses are vintage "rocks" cocktail glasses, which are short and have heavy glass bases. If you don't have one, you can buy them at thrift or vintage stores.