These traditional Holiday Cookies will literally melt in your mouth. Not overly sweet, made using 4 easy ingredients and that light as air texture will keep you reaching for more!
Whipped Shortbread Cookies Ingredients
- Steak : We are using room temperature softened butter. But we don't need it over greasy or we're risking the biscuits to spread more than we want!
- Confectioners' Sugar: Powdered sugar will help in producing light textured shortbread biscuits.
- Flour: Quantify flour by means of a kitchen or fluff the flour first, step out in measuring cup and sweep it with a knife to level it off.
- Cornstarch: Cornstarch makes the most mild and puffy cookies you will ever understand!
How To Make Whipped Shortbread Cookies:
All these are the simplest cookies to bake! Just take care not to measure your bread and cornstarch. Along with your cookies will bake all light and bloated! To create Shortbread Cookies:
- Beat Butter and confectioners' sugar together for 4-5 minutes
- Beat in sifted flour and cornstarch next:
- Chill the dough
- Make cookie dough balls
- Quickly chill in the freezer while you preheat the oven
- Produce a pattern using fork: Outstanding but super cute!
- Shirt with sprinkles and bake then
Should You Chill Shortbread Before Baking?
Yes, and I can't stress that enough. Chilled cookie dough bakes a lot greater cookies. Shortbread cookies are high in fat content, frightening the dough can help firming up the butter. This results in puffy and thick biscuits!
What Does Cornstarch Do In Cookie Dough?
- Aids the biscuits bake thick and puffy. It reduces the risk of cookie processing!
- Cornstarch at the cookie dough yields lighter textured cookies.
- Also whipped shortbread biscuits with cornstarch bake the softest.
Taste and Texture of Shortbread Cookies
- Not too sweet
- Buttery and melt in your mouth soft
- Slightly crumbly in a good way (not chewy whatsoever!)
- Light and bloated
Whipped Shortbread Cookies Recipe
Prep Time: 10 minutes | Cook time: 20 minutes | Yield: 9 Cookies
Ingredients
- 6 Tbsp Butter (Space Temp, salted)
- 3 Tbsp Confectioners' Sugar
- 1/2 Cup+1 Tbsp All Purpose Flour
- 3 Tbsp Cornstarch
Instructions
- In a medium mixing bowl beat butter and confectioners' sugar for 4-5 minutes. Don't skimp on the beating time for mild textured cookies.
- Beat sifted flour and cornstarch from the bowl and overcome just till blended.
- Chill the dough for about 30 minutes in the fridge, or till it's firm to touch. Pro Tip: To accelerate this process, you may chill the dough in freezer until firm.
- Roll into 12 cookie balls, press the top with a fork dipped in cornstarch and top with sprinkles.
- Set the biscuits onto a lined baking tray and allow to cool in the freezer till you preheat the oven.
- When ready to bake preheat oven at 300 deg F and bake cookies for 20-21 minutes. Or until their tops look set.
- Allow to cool on the skillet.
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