Short bread cookies

Ingredients

Shortbread cookies
(Photo courtesy: Dave souza / Wikimedia commons)

White flour                         - 2 cup

Salt-less butter                   - 1 cup

Icing sugar                         - 1/2 cup

Corn flour                          - 1/4 cup

Salt                                    - 1 tsp

Vanilla essence                 - 1/2 tsp

Preparation

                Heat oven to 350˚F. Soften the butter, beating it in a mixer for about 15 minutes. To the butter, add the white flour, icing sugar and cornflour. Beat it at low speed for a minute and thereafter at high speed for 4 minutes. Arrange cookies on a baking tray and bake for about 12 minutes till the edges turn brown and crisp.