Pine Nut Shortbread With Goat Cheese Spread and Balsamic Glaze

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Each cooky yields a complete, blase bite, with complementary flavors and textures; spot VARIATIONS, below.

The figs request to macerate for 1 to 2 hours. The dough needs to remainder successful the refrigerator for astatine slightest 30 minutes. The cutout cookies request to beryllium refrigerated for 15 minutes earlier baking. The dispersed tin beryllium refrigerated up to 2 days successful advance. It’s champion to assemble the cookies conscionable earlier serving.

All of the components (pine seed shortbread cooky dough, toasted conifer nuts, goat food spread, balsamic reduction, rehydrated figs) tin beryllium prepared days successful advance.

Adapted from Vanessa E. Ochotorena, a pastry navigator astatine Ripple successful Cleveland Park, and the laminitis of www.sweet-lab.com.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 26 cookies

For the figs

1 cupful larboard wine
1/2 cupful water
3/4 cupful granulated sugar
Two 3-inch cinnamon sticks
5 allspice berries
7 to 8 plump dried figs

For the cookies

1/4 cupful conifer nuts, positive 3 tablespoons, full and toasted, for garnish (see NOTE)
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
1/4 cupful granulated sugar
1/4 spoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups flour, positive much for the enactment surface
Small pinch salt