recipe: shortbread

Beware: for this is the easiest recipe ever. It only has four ingredients and it's gotten great reviews from people in my writing class.

tools:
8-10 inch pie plate
small cookie cutter

ingredients:
two sticks of butter
3/4 and two table spoons of confectioners sugar
two cups of flour
3/4 teaspoon salt (regular, fine grained salt)


instructions:

+Preheat oven to 300 degrees

+Soften your butter in the microwave, don't let it melt entirely but try and get it to as almost melted and smushy as possible. I cut the sticks into fourths and put it in for 45 second then just smashed away with a fork.

+Sift the flour and sugar

+Take everything, mix it in the bowl.

+Optional: add a tiny amount of vanilla or more butter for taste depending on what you prefer. I wouldn't use more than 1/4 tsp of vanilla, as this cookie should be buttery as hell and far, far away in taste from a sugar cookie. The vanilla adds depth but it's just as good without imo.

+If it is too dry (and this is what happened to me the second time I made it for some reason) add after until it's fairly soft, the approximate texture for a roll-out cookie

+Press into your pie tin.

+ Refrigerate for twenty minutes

+find the middle of your plate and press in a small cookie cutter or cut a hole approx. one inch in diameter. take out the cookie dough and put the cookie cutter back in.

+Perforate the cookie disk into 1/12th wedges. If yo uwant you can also poke holes into the top of it using a fork or decorating if you'd like

+Put into the oven for about one hour, or until it's slightly browned at the edges. You want it to be just slightly soft and wet in the middle as the ending cookies will be slightly moist and it won't be like biting into a rock. (Which is the fault for most shortbread cookies)

+When cool, take out the cookie cutter and recut the wedges.