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Four-Ingredient Shortbread Cookies
Soft, buttery shortbread cookies with lightly crisp bottoms and a melt-in-your-mouth texture. The simple dough can be cut into rectangles or shaped as desired.
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Ingredients
- 250 g Butter (Softened at room temperature)
- 0.75 cup Powdered sugar (Also called icing sugar)
- 0.5 cup Cornstarch (Also called cornflour in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia)
- 1.5 cup Plain flour (All-purpose flour; use extra for flouring the work surface)
- Caster sugar (Optional, for sprinkling over the hot cookies)
Steps
- 1
Preheat the oven to 150°C (300°F). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- 2
Place the softened butter and powdered sugar in a mixing bowl. Cream them together until the mixture is light, fluffy, and pale.
- 3
Sift the cornstarch and plain flour into the creamed butter mixture.
- 4
Mix the dry ingredients into the butter mixture just until combined and a soft dough forms. Do not overmix.
- 5
On a lightly floured work surface, roll the dough to approximately 1 cm thick. Cut it into 1 cm × 6 cm rectangles, or use any desired shape. Alternatively, shape the dough into a block and slice it into cookies.
- 6
Prick each cookie three times with a fork. Arrange the cookies on the lined baking sheet, leaving a little space between them.
- 7
Chill the shaped cookies on the baking sheet in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
- 8
Bake at 150°C (300°F) for 15–20 minutes, until the cookies are crisp and pale with only light golden coloring.
- 9
Reduce the oven temperature to 130°C (250°F) and continue baking for about 10 minutes, or until lightly golden and crisp.
- 10
If desired, sprinkle the cookies with caster sugar immediately after removing them from the oven.
- 11
Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes, then transfer them carefully to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
The source's step numbering skips and repeats numbers; the method has been reordered sequentially without changing the stated instructions. The cookies should remain pale rather than becoming deeply browned.
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