Christmas Tree Shortbread Cookies

It's day four in my cookie countdown to Christmas!! These shortbread cookies are so fun and easy! 

Christmas Tree Shortbread Cookies

Ingredients:

- 1 cup of butter at cool room temperature

- 1 cup of confectioners sugar

- 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

- 2 cups of all purpose flour

- 1 cup of white chocolate chips or vanilla almond bark

- green food coloring

- sprinkles

    Preheat oven to 300 degrees and grease three 8" cake pans. With a mixer, cream together the butter, sugar, and vanilla extract until light and fluffy. Add in flour, one cup at a time. Once mixture is just combined, divide into thirds. Press each third into the bottom of each cake pan. Perforate the pressed dough with a fork all over to prevent bubbling. Bake for about 25 minutes, until the dough is lightly golden brown. Remove cookies from pans and slice into eighths immediately! Very important! Slice these the minute you take them out of the oven because they will be crumbly once cool! 

    Once cool, melt white chocolate chips or almond bark and add green food coloring. I used almond bark. Place in a piping bag and drizzle over cookies, then apply sprinkles.