Rum-Raisin Shortbread Cookies

Remember it's important to chill dough. I also sliced and chilled again on cookie sheet before baking!

I also purchased the unsweetened coconut at my health food store. I soaked the Zante currants in Myer's rum. Followed the recipe exactly and everyone enjoyed them. I am making them again for my friends as a Mother's Day treat!

Can't believe I didn't read the reviews first. This recipe lead to a big mess. One greasy buttery slop on my cookie sheet. I love corn starch shortbread and will stick to that as the recipe never fails.

I followed the recipe exactly and they all spread together on my cookie sheet. They were also greasy. :( the flavor was good but I had to salvage them with a pizza cutter. All I can figure is that they needed alot more flour......too bad.

I really liked these but used extra 1/4 c. flour, only added 1 TBS reserved rum, used dried, unsweetened coconut which is completely different from moist, sweetened coconut and lastly only baked them for 12 min. Before reducing the time to 12 min I baked a few for 15 min and they burned and became real greasy. The rest at 12 min were not greasy. You have to get to know your oven. I'm still learning.

the recipe has some problems - like not enough flour - but i think it has potential. i'll keep working on it.

These were awful. Greasy, salty, and overcooked. Why are they still being featured on the web site? The lack of good reviews is proof enough.

i've not made the recipe, but i would think that substituting salted butter for the unsalted, and eliminating the additional salt might solve the problem mentioned by the two previous posters.

I would agree that the coarse salt is NOT a good idea with these cookies. Figure out the conversion between coarse salt and regular salt and then cut it back a little. Also, 20 mins is WAY too long in the oven. I don't know who created this recipe but its seriously lacking.

I wasn't thrilled with these cookies. I found them to be more trouble than they were worth. With the coarse salt, I found that when I took a bit of cookie, I got an unwelcome bite of salt! Ew.

20 minutes were too long for me. whip these out as soon as they color or you'll lose the rum flavor!

This sounds delicious, especially the part where the currents are soaked in rum. This means I won't have to share with kids. LOL

Xelaju- Currants are a small, red, slilghtly sour berry. Raisins are very sweet compared to them.

Mmmmm,these look yummy !

What is the difference between raisins and currants? Sorry...

UNSWEETENED Coconut - I forgot there is such a thing. I traditionally purchaes Baker's Sweetened Coconut. After thiking about it I think Baker's made it years ago in a tiny can or something. So I found it at the Natural Health Food Store - yippee! Is delayed me making these a bit for my annual Christmas Cookie Exchange that Ihost every year. Thanks for the other tips posted. Jen

I made it ,very cool

I made these cookies and had no problems slicing them. I soaked the currants for about 8 hours then prepared the cookies dough. I refrigerated the cookie dough overnight and baked the cookies the next morning. I removed the cookie dough from the refigerator one roll at a time and sliced the entire roll and baked the cookies before removing the second roll of cookie dough. The cookies turned out beautiful and were very tasty. I will bake these again.

I made these the other day and I had trouble slicing them. They crumbled and I had to shape them by hand. When I make them again I will have to rethink how to do them. They do tast wonderful and despite the difficulty I will make them again.