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Whipped Shortbread Cookies-Buttery cookies that are melt in your mouth delicious! Only 4 main ingredients are needed and they can be decorated anyway you wish.

Just a heads up...you may eat large quantities of these amazing cookies.  🖒

You have been warned!

Ingredients Needed

• Butter
• Flour
• Powdered sugar
• Cornstarch

Additional Products I Used:

• Vanilla 
• Chocolate Chips
• Rainbow Sprinkles
• Food Dye Gel
• Lavender Finishing Sugar

Your basic cookie is just 4 ingredients and are delicious.  However, you can switch up this recipe anyway you wish and make them your own.  

A Few Ideas for Switching Things Up:

• Add a few teaspoons of vanilla extract. 
• Replace the vanilla flavor/extract with our favorite flavor.  For example, lemon flavoring, orange flavoring or almond extract.
• Dye the dough in different colors.
• Top with sprinkles ( do this before baking) or roll the dough in sprinkles before baking.
• Melt chocolate chips and coat half your cookie into the melted chocolate.   You can also use the melted chocolate to add a chocolate drizzle on top.
• Sprinkle tops with coarse sugar (see above for the lavender option I used!)

Storage:  Keep any leftover cookies in a covered container.  They are best eaten in a week. 

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Whipped Shortbread Cookies

Buttery cookies that are melt in your mouth delicious! Only 4 main ingredients are needed and they can be decorated anyway you wish.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 12 mins

Hands-Off Time: 5 mins

Yield: approx. 30 cookies

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Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 1/3 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• 1 3/4 cup flour

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Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line a flat rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone mats.
2. In a mixing bowl, beat butter and powdered sugar for about 5 minutes or until the mixture is fluffy and creamy.
3. Add in the flour and cornstarch and beat just until combined.
4. Scoop a bit of dough and roll into a ball (approx. 1 inch is size). Using a small fork, flatten the ball of dough slightly, and make a criss cross pattern.
5. If desired, sprinkle tops with sprinkles or coarse sugar.
6. Bake for 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and let them sit on the baking sheet for 5 minutes.
7. Then, remove from the baking sheet and cool completely on a wire rack.