Recipe - Brown Sugar Shortbread Cookies

1 cup Unsalted butter; room
temperature
1 cup Packed light brown sugar
2 cup Allpurpose flour
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Lightly butter 9" springform pan. Using
electric mixer, beat 1 cup butter in larger bowl until light and fluffy.
Add brown sugar and beat well. Using rubber spatula, mix in flour and salt
(do not overmix). Press dough into prepared pan. Combine sugar and cinnamon
in small bowl. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar over dough. Cut dough into 12
wedges, using ruler as guide and cutting through dough. Pierce each wedge
several times with toothpick.

Bake until shortbread is brown, firm at edges and slightly soft in center,
about 1 hour. Cool shortbread completely in pan on rack. Remove pan sides.
Recut cookie into wedges.

NOTES : Can be prepared 2 days ahead. Store in airtight container at room
temperature.
Recipe by: Nola Restaurant, New Orleans (from "Bon Appetit," 9/97) Posted
to MCRecipe Digest V1 #758 by LBotsko@aol.com on Aug 23, 1997