Spiced Shortbread (Reduced Sugar)

Name: Spiced Shortbread (Reduced Sugar)
Ingredients: 6 tablespoons (1¾ ounces/50 grams), coconut sugar; 2 cups (10 ounces/283 grams), all-purpose flour; 2½ teaspoons, ground cinnamon; ¼ teaspoon, ground nutmeg; ¼ teaspoon, ground cloves; ½ teaspoon, salt; 14 tablespoons, unsalted butter, sliced ⅛ inch thick and chilled; 2 tablespoons, vanilla extract

Desserts or Baked Goods
Reduced Sugar
Cookies
Holiday
Cookbook Collection

With so few ingredients, taking out half the sugar meant we had to abandon this time-honored formula.

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SERVES Makes 16 cookies

TIME 1½ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

Sugar 3 grams (down from 5)

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