Description
While husband Jed Thomas cooks up inspired Yankee breakfasts each morning, Innkeep Alana Buie at the Captain Fairfield Inn bakes cookies for teatime. She has created a tender bar shortbread cookie using Maine’s famous Blueberries to share with lucky B & B guests. The historic sea captain’s mansion is a short walk to the charming waterfront town of Kennebunkport, just enough time to devour the cookies stuffed in your pockets!
Ingredients
Scale
- ½ c salted butter
- ½ c powdered sugar
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 c all-purpose flour
- ¼ c fresh (or from frozen) blueberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
- Grease pan.
- Mix butter, sugar, and vanilla extract together in a medium bowl.
- Add and beat in the flour,continue beating until the mixture becomes a stiff dough.
- Press dough into pan with hands, filling pan out to the edges and pricking the surface of the dough all over with a fork.
- Run blueberries in food processer for a few seconds.
- Spoon blueberry mixture over top of dough in swirl pattern, from the center outward.
- Press blueberries into dough a bit if possible.
- Bake for 35 minutes or until golden brown
- Note: if you don’t have blueberries on hand for a swirl, you can try spreading jam evenly on top of the baked shortbread surface.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 35 mins