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Don't be fooled. Funfetti Shortbread Bites may look cute and dainty, but they're dangerously addicting. You'll find yourself popping them into your mouth like candy. I came scarily close to putting a bunch in a bowl and pouring milk over them. Please don't judge! Deep down, you know funfetti cereal sounds amazing.
If this recipe looks familiar, it's because we've made it before for Christmas—with festive red and green nonpareils of course. This is the rainbow version—perfect for ANY and all occasions.
When my coworker made the shortbread in December, she pulsed the butter, sugar, flour and salt together in a food processor. This is the easiest, most efficient way to get the pea-sized crumbles you're aiming for. (If you overwork the dough, you'll get tough, sad shortbread, not crumbly tender bites.) BUT you could totally use a hand mixer (as I did) or even pastry cutter for that matter.
Once the dough is made, pat it into a disc, cut little squares and throw the mini cookies onto a baking sheet. Don't even bother spreading them out, because they won't spread in the oven! If your kitchen is uncomfortably warm (or you started to soften the butter but got caught up in 1,000 other things) and the dough is feeling play dough soft, stick it in the freezer for 20 minutes or so to firm up.
The rainbow sprinkles, the cute little size, the butter ... everything about the shortbread screams happy! But I did have one regret, and that was not adding vanilla extract. To make it more birthday-flavored, I highly recommend you add a teaspoon to the dough.
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