A simple melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookie covered in powdered sugar. This can be made as a simple drop cookie or a slice-and-bake refrigerator cookie.
Ingredients
1 cup butter or margarine *
1/2 cup sifted powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla or other extract (lime, lemon, almond, etc.)
2-1/4 cups cake flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400F. Mix butter, sugar and extract thoroughly. Measure flour and salt into a bowl, blend into butter mixture. Drop onto cookie sheet. Alternately, roll the dough into a round log and chill until very firm. Slice cookies 1cm thick (about 1/3 inch). Bake for 8 minutes. While warm, dip in powdered sugar.
Notes
- Photo by Addison Berry cc.
- * Adapted from a recipe in the 1963 Betty Crocker’s Cooky Book. A lot of vintage recipes were developed for either butter or margarine. Margarine will give a softer cookie, butter will be a bit more toothsome.