A simple melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookie covered in powdered sugar.
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 confectioners sugar.
Notes
- Photo by happyscrappy under Creative Commons license. This photo is of Lime Meltaway variation made with the slice-and-bake technique.
