Shortbread Cookies
Buttery and delicious shortbread cookies that everyone will love!
Prep Time5 minutes mins
Cook Time10 minutes mins
chill time15 minutes mins
Course: Cookies, Dessert
Cuisine: Cookies, Dessert
Keyword: Cookies, Dessert
Servings: 12 large cookies
- 1 cup butter- room temperature but still firm
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Mix together the butter and sugar together until smooth and pale yellow.
Next add the salt, flour and vanilla extract until a dough forms.
If dough is too soft and unworkable, refrigerate and chill dough for 15 minutes.
Roll dough out to about 1/3 of an inch.
You can bake the dough in one big rectangle and cut the shapes out just after the cookies come out for perfectly shaped cookies or you can cut the dough into desire shapes at this point and bake in individual shapes. For a chewier cookie, I will typically bake all the dough together and a crispier cookie I will cut the dough into individual shapes then bake.
Bake for 10-20 minutes, depending on the texture desired, less time for chewier cookies and longer for crispier cookies.
Cookies will firm up after they cool.