Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Butter cookies/ the best damn shortbread EVER

  1. 1 pound soft sweet cream butter
  2. 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  3. 1 1/4 cup sugar
  4. 1 tsp salt
  5. 2 tsp vanilla extract or 1/2 tsp vanilla powder.
    • Preheat oven to 350F
    • Cream together sugar vanilla salt and butter
    • Work flour into the mix 1 cup at a time.
    • Once dough is formed it can be rolled into a ball, make a depression in the middle fill with fruit preserves/jam, poppy seed pastry filling or rolled and cut into cookie bars and shapes.Bake until edges brown 10-12 min.  if the dough is to soft refrigerate until firmer. can be made ahead and frozen.




      I use this all the time for my holiday cookies, In Eid everyone wants them!