WHIPPED SHORTBREAD COOKIES

 If you are searching for easy Shortbread, look no further! My buttery and melt in your mouth soft whipped Shortbread Cookies got you covered.

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These classic Christmas Cookies will literally melt in your mouth. Not too sweet, made with 4 simple ingredients and that light as air texture will keep you reaching for more!

Lets get straight away into how to bring these Holiday cookies together.

WHIPPED SHORTBREAD INGREDIENTS:

1. Butter: We are using room temperature softened butter. But we don't want it over greasy or we are risking the cookies to spread more then we'd like!
2. Confectioners' Sugar: Powdered sugar helps in creating light textured shortbread.
3. Flour: Measure flour using a kitchen scale or fluff the flour first, measure out in measuring cup and sweep it with a knife to level it off.
4. Cornstarch: Cornstarch makes the most light and puffy cookies that you will ever know!

HOW TO MAKE WHIPPED SHORTBREAD:

These are just the easiest cookies to make! Just take care not to over measure your flour and cornstarch. And your cookies will bake all puffy and light! To make Shortbread:

• Beat Butter and confectioners' sugar together for 3-4 minutes
• Beat in sifted flour and cornstarch next:
• Chill the dough
• Make cookie dough balls
• Quickly chill in the freezer again while you preheat the oven
• Make a pattern using fork: Optional but super cute!
• Top with sprinkles and bake then

Since the list is so short for these cookies, take care to use quality ingredients. Using good quality butter as opposed to margarine, good quality sugar and flour results in best tasting cookies.

You can also add flavorings like vanilla, almond, mint, orange or lemon to this dough. Or top it with hershey's kisses, jam filling or even candy cane kisses after these come out of oven.

HOW IS SHORTBREAD DIFFERENT FROM COOKIES?

Shortbread only uses a few simple ingredients and is light and buttery to taste and are not chewy. There are no leaveners used in the dough as opposed to other cookies.

SHOULD YOU CHILL SHORTBREAD COOKIE DOUGH?

Yes, and I can't stress this enough. Chilled cookie dough bakes so much better cookies. Shortbread is high in fat content, chilling the dough will help firming the butter up. This results in thick and puffy cookies!

WHAT DOES CORNSTARCH DO IN COOKIE DOUGH?

• Helps the cookies to bake thick and . It reduces the risk of cookie spreading!
• Cornstarch in the cookie dough yields lighter textured cookies.
• Also cookies with cornstarch bake the softest.

WHY DID MY WHIPPED SHORTBREAD SPREAD?

There can be a number of reasons for shortbread to spread. If the cookie dough had too much butter and/or less flour than recipe suggest. Or if you did not chill the dough enough. Or if the oven temperature was too high. Just follow the recipe as written and your cookies will bake just perfect!

TASTE AND TEXTURE OF THESE COOKIES:

1. Not too sweet
2. Buttery and melt in your mouth soft
3. Slightly crumbly in a good way (not chewy at all!)
4. Light and puffy