Christmas is round the corner and I have all the more reason to bake. Baking has become therapeutic for me. It gives me immense peace and a sense of satisfaction. And the best part is, I get to share the recipes, I have been making for a long time or the ones which I have learned over time with the help of a lot of wonderful bloggers out there. This shortbread recipe is one of the oldest recipe I possess. Scribbled on a piece of a torn paper, I inherited it from my mom. Now you see, that’s the lazy me. When ever I take out the recipe paper, tucked between diary pages, I make a mental note to file it somewhere safe. But that hasn’t been done for years. I am really glad, I have a blog now, and made these cookies. Though I would want to keep that piece of paper for ever, I have a safe copy online too.
Ingredients
- Unsalted butter-125 gm (at room temperature)
- Confectioner's sugar-40 gm
- All purpose flour-100 gm
- Cornflour-40 gm
- Vanilla extract-1 tsp
- A pinch of salt
Instructions
- Mix all purpose flour, cornflour and salt in a bowl
- Whisk butter and sugar with your electric beater ,till light and fluffy ( 3-4 minutes on high speed )
- Lower the speed and add the flour mixture
- Whisk for 3-4 minutes on medium speed
- Add vanilla extract and whisk for another minute
- Transfer the batter to a piping bag fitted with a 1M tip or whichever you want
- Pipe small cookies on a cookie sheet
- Refrigerate the piped cookies for half an hour
- Pre heat the oven to 350 degrees F
- Bake the cookies for 15 - 17 minutes, until they turn slightly brown
- Cool on a wire rack
- Store in a airtight container once cooled
Christina
These are beautiful, Neha, as is your photography! I can almost taste these as they are similar (in ingredients) to a butter cookie I make. These would be lovely as a holiday gift!
Nandita Pai Shirali
These are super adorable 🙂 Loved the pis and the cute cookies 🙂
Sangeetha
wow…so cute n delicious cookies, presentation looks so festive…great for Christmas gifts…loved it!!
Cathy
You have mastered the piping bag. Those cookies are absolutely gorgeous!
Julie
super cutee ones,yummy:)
Edelma
What icing did you use for the cookies?
msnehamathur
You don’t need any Icing for these cookies Edelma. They taste good as is.