Recipe: Yummy Shortbread Cookies

Shortbread Cookies.

You can cook Shortbread Cookies using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Shortbread Cookies

1. It's 1 Cup of softened butter or margarine.
2. You need 2 Cups of All Purpose Flour.
3. You need 3/4 Cup of Icing Sugar.
4. You need 1/2 Cup of Cornstarch.
5. It's 2 tsp of Vanilla.

Shortbread Cookies instructions

1. Sift the and cornstarch together and set aside..
2. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees centigrade. In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar until the mixture turns to a pale color. Add vanilla extract and mix further..
3. Add in the flour in three additions and mix between the additions until a soft dough is formed..
4. Remove the dough from the bowl onto a floured surface and gather it together with your hands. Roll it gently and cut into desired shapes using a cookie cutter..
5. Bake in the preheated oven for between 15 and 20 minutes until the edges turn light brown. Remove from the oven and let the cookies cool on a rack. Enjoy..