Shortbread Cookies At Their Best!
By: Sharmilee
Published: Monday, March 8, 2010 - 9:39pm

Ingredients




cup all-purpose flour (150 gms)
50 grams Cornflour
Salt 
100 grams Unsalted butter
45 grams Powdered sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla essence

Preparation

1 In a separate bowl sift the flour with salt. Set aside. 2 Cream butter,add sugar and beat until its smooth - it takes about 5mins. Add vanilla essence and mix well. 3 Now add flour to the butter sugar mixture and bring it to a dough. Flatten the dough into disk shape, wrap in a plastic cover and refrigerate for an hour. 4 On a flat surface, roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thick. Cut into your desired shapes and place these cookies on the prepared baking sheet and again refrigerate it for 10-15 minutes.This will firm up the dough for the cookies to maintain their shape. 5 Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 175deg C for 10mins. Bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes.

About


From Joy of baking. These keep in an airtight container for a week.
NOTES: The toughest part was rolling out the dough and cutting them; the texture wasn't easy to roll out and it broke often, so dust with flour if needed. The actual recipe says 8-10mins but my cookies took exactly 15mins to bake.