Monster Morsels

I know I probably say this every time I make a dessert for the blog, but I'm not much of a dessert person. I used to be when I was in my teens and twenties but sometime in the last 20 years, I've lost my taste for the sweet stuff. 
Give me a meal with salad and I'm good, but occasionally I do crave a little something sweet, like chocolate or cheesecake, but my favorite cookie would have to be SHORTBREAD, hands down!
Buttery, delicious and not too sweet! This is definitely my kind of dessert! I seriously could eat these little morsels every morning with a cup of coffee. If I hadn't taken these little bites of wonderful to school for a PTA meeting, I would of eaten every single last one all by myself. I already ate two dozen right out of the oven!
Make a big batch of them and watch your little monsters devour them!

Happy Halloween!

Monster Morsels (Mini Shortbread Cookies) 

Boo! Bites recipe from Seeded at the Table

Makes ~9 dozen bite-sized cookies

1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 t vanilla extract
2 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 t salt
2 T nonpareils Halloween sprinkles

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Cream together butter and sugar and add vanilla. Add flour and salt to stand mixer and mix on low until incorporated. Stir in the Halloween sprinkles by hand until evenly distributed.

On parchment paper, form dough into a rectangle. I used the edge of a spatula to square off the edges. Then I used a regular rolling pin to smooth out the surface of the dough.

I decided to fancy up this deliciously simple cookie recipe by using my super cool engraved rolling pin that my mom gave me last year. I think they turned out pretty neat. Don't you? 
(Thanks mom! XO)

Use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into 1 inch cookies. Place cookies one inch apart on parchment lined cookie sheet and bake for 13-15 minutes at 325 degree oven. Cool and enjoy!

Other Halloween Desserts to try:
Black Velvet Creme Cakes  Candy Corn Sugar Cookies  Zombie Pretzel Cookies