Christmas Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

Christmas Series: Week 2: Love of Preparing

Luke 3: 1-6

Take time for some inspirational baking with the weekly Christmas Dessert Devotion series! 4 weeks of the best Christmas cookie recipes and 4 inspiring devotionals. Week 2 is “Love of Preparing”.

Shortbread Chocolate Cookie

2 sticks butter

¾ cup sugar

1 egg

2 tsp vanilla

2 ½ cups flour

7 Hershey bars

Directions:

With a stand mixer cream the butter and sugar together, then add the egg and vanilla.

Slowly add the flour and form a stiff dough.

Divide the dough, placing the first half in a greased 9 x 13 dish.

Place the chocolate bars on the dough, then carefully spread the second half of dough on top. Bake on 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes until the dough has a dry appearance. Cut into bars while still warm.

Recipe inspired by Double Thyme vegetarian bakers.

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Devotional:

Luke 3:1-6

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'"

One of the challenges of this cookie is spreading out the dough so that is all level

We don’t want places that are too high or low,and you have to give that your attention.

The voice of John gives the image at Christmas of us preparing for the arrival of a king. You know what it’s like when dignitaries come to town. I know what it was like when a distinguished visitor would visit our base in the military. The streets were cleaned, curbs were painted, floors were waxed, we wore our best uniforms. In the days of John, preparing for the emperor’s arrival may mean cleaning up a town, or even building or widening roads or smoothing them out for the entourages arrival.

Imagine this preparation process for Christmas…[see video for complete devotional]

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