Recipe: Perfect Best Shortbread Cookies

Best Shortbread Cookies. To make this shortbread recipe, you can break out your hand or stand mixer to make quick work of the prep. My family and friends love this classic holiday cookie. It's soft and buttery and just melts in your mouth. You can take it over the top by dipping in chocolate, drizzling glaze. They are also great as a homemade gift and perfect for dunking.

This is truly the Best Shortbread Cookies Recipe! It yields tender, crisp, buttery, and perfect cookies every time. I feel like shortbread cookies are underrated. You can have Best Shortbread Cookies using 3 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Best Shortbread Cookies

1. You need 1/2 C of soft room temperature butter.
2. Prepare 1/4 C of brown sugar.
3. You need 1 C of AP flour.

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Best Shortbread Cookies step by step

1. Cream butter and sugar until smooth.
2. Add flour and work it in..you may need slightly more than the one cup of flour..the goal is to have a dryish crumbly dough that comes together when pressed.
3. Put dough onto plastic wrap, press together to form a rough log..wrap the dough tightly and form it into either a tube or a long square shape.
4. Refrigerate for 20 minutes..meanwhile preheat oven to 325*.
5. Unwrap dough and use a large straight knife (not serrated) to make half inch cuts...you should get 18 cookies including the ends.
6. Bake on ungreased sheet for 10 minutes until slightly golden on the edges.
7. Cool cookies on the hot baking sheet for three minutes...if you try to finger-test them, they will be squishy..that's good.
8. After three minutes, remove cookies with a spatula onto either wire racks or another sheet and let cool for at least a half hour before devouring.

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