Butter Shortbread Cookies

There are many types of cookies. But this one is a simple but very tasty and melts in your mouth. Shortbread cookies doesn't take more time to cook and is a quick mixture of butter and sugar along with all purpose flour. Preheating the oven while you mix the ingredient can really save time.

If you do not have OTG or microwave or a convection oven, you can still make cookies with sand in a deep vessel and let it be heated up well over high heat. Place a baking tray in which cookie dough is placed on the hot sand. Cook it with a lid on until it's done. It will not create the steam vapours and cooks the baking stuff neat and dry like in oven. Same procedure can be followed for cakes as well.

Recipe:

• Prep time - 30 mins
• Cooking time - 30 mins
• Yields - 35 to 40 cookies

Ingredients:

• Butter - 1 stick ( 110 gms) unsalted
• Castor sugar or confectioners sugar - 1/2 cups ( 65 gms)
• All purpose flour - 1 cup ( 130 gms)
• Salt - a pinch (1/8 teaspoon)
• Baking soda - a pinch
• Pure vanilla extract - 1/2 teaspoon

Method:

• Make the butter softened by placing it in room temperature or keep it in microwave high for 10 or 11 secs.

Ingredients

Rolled up dough with 2 cms diameter 

Opening the cling sheet after freezing the dough

Cookies cut with 1/2 inch width

Ready to go into the oven

Done cookies

• Add the sugar to this butter and mix it well until it becomes a smooth cream like texture.
• Preheat the oven to 350 deg fahrenheit.
• Add vanilla extract, baking soda and salt. Mix well so that the salt and baking soda uniformly gets along with the mixture.
• Now add the all purpose flour and mix it well too. It has to be in very soft dough consistency.
• Take a cling sheet and roll up the cookie dough into a tube like structure of about 2 cms diameter. Twist the excess cling sheet at both ends in order to prevent the dough from drying out.
• If the oven beeps in the middle, put it in warm mode.
• Place the cookie dough in the freezer for 10 to 15 mins.
• Take the dough out of freezer. Remove the cling and cut it into round shape with the width of 1/2 inch. 
• Place it in a foil wrapped baking tray and bake it in the oven for 20 to 22 mins.
• Once it is done, take it out of the oven and allow it to cool completely.
• Cookie dough can also be stored in fridge for a week.
• Serve it immediately or store it up to 4 days in a airtight container ( if you can save it!lol)

Hope you like this recipe.  I will share another interesting and easy recipe in my next post. Your feedback and suggestions are welcome. Have a wonderful day!