Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Easiest melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies

This may not be health, but it's darndest tasty cookies! Melded from several sources, and tested a
number of times (mmmmm).


Cream:
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
         Softened not melted.
         Soften overnight on counter or 10s in microwave.
         NO butter substitutes!
1/4 cup brown sugar (packed!)

Add & mix:
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tbsp cornstartch 
     (replace with flour if you don't have this)

Dump the dough on wax or parchment paper roll into 1 - 1.5 inch diameter log.
Chill in fridge for at least half hour.
Cut into 1/2 inch disks. This batch will make about 20 cookies.
Bake at 300 for 15-20 minutes.

These cookies shouldn't spread much and won't rise at all.
And they are greasy enough that you don't have to grease the pan.
When they are done, they will look brown around the edges but mostly light on top.

Cool for 5 min on pan.
Cool on rack.

Don't eat too many at once. One of these 1 inch cookies have just about same caloric value (~70 Cal) as a regular sized chocolate chip cookies ...


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