Scottish Heritage

Now that Easter is over, I am revamping my menu and working on the next project.
Even though we have lived in the Houston are for almost five years, there are still events that happen around here that we learn about.  One of them is the Houston Celtic Festival and Highland Games, and we are going this weekend.  I am super excited about this.  Part of my family comes from Scotland (and other Celtic nations) and I love learning news things about my heritage and teaching my girls about them as well.  
One of the events going on this weekend at the games is a shortbread cookies competition, traditional and non traditional.  I am going to be entering both, so today I worked on the cookies I will be entering for the traditional one, and it will also be my base for the non traditional one.
I had two different recipes; the first I did used powdered sugar, and the other one used white sugar, typical old world traditional.  Here are some pics from my baking adventure today:

 This is the first batch, made with powdered sugar

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I used a cookie cutter that was from my grandmother.  I just got a bunch of different ones from her.  Excited to use them

 Here they are before I put them in the oven.

Here are a couple after being baked.

Here is the second batch made with white sugar.

I actually used a biscuit cutter to make these cookies.  Also from my grandmother.

Here is the finished product

What did I learn from this?  Using white sugar turned out a much yummier cookie. :-)

So either tomorrow or Wednesday, I will be baking up the cookie I plan on using for the non traditional shortbread cookie.  Will see how that goes.