Melt in the Mouth Shortbread Cookies
Ingredients:
- 1 cup (240g) Salted Butter, room temperature
- ½ cup (60g) icing sugar, sifted
- 1½ cups (225g) all-purpose Flour
- ½ cup (60g) Cornstarch/ Maziena
- Optional ½ cup blanched almonds
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Method:
- Preheat your oven to 150C and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl cream together the soft butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
- Add in the sifted flour and cornstarch and mix until the dough just comes together.
- Turn the dough out onto a counter dusted with powdered sugar and gently roll the dough into a long two by a two-inch log.
- Wrap the log of cookie dough in plastic wrap and allow to firm up in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Once the dough is firm slice the cookies into desired rounds.
- Place each round on your baking tray and bake for 15 minutes or until just golden.
- Allow cooling slightly before transferring to a cooling rack.
Bakers tip for these Melt in the Mouth Shortbread Cookies
I used 2 cups cake flour and piped the dough on a baking tray. You can then dip it in chocolate, decorate with cashew nuts and added red glazed cherries in the center.
Prepared, tried and tested Feriel Sonday
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Another of the great recipes I need to try!
Thanks Trent. Hope you will enjoy it
Thanks Trent. Hope you will enjoy it
I can feel these melting in my mouth already!
Gloria, yes they are melt in the mouth cookies