Some recipes are a sure thing, and this is one of them. Butter, sugar, vanilla, flour. No eggs, no baking powder, nothing to complicate your life. These shortbread cookies were built for the holidays, but fair warning: you will end up making them in May too. Try them once and you will understand why they come back every single year at my house!<\/p>\n
True story. Too much flour, a dry crumbly cookie, and it took me a while to figure out why. The answer is a SCALE. In baking, a cup of flour has no fixed weight, it depends entirely on how you scoop it out of the bag. Two cups means 250 g, not 280. Weigh it and the butter-to-flour ratio lands perfectly on the first try. Best 4 seconds you will ever spend in a kitchen.<\/p>\n
The cornstarch is where the magic happens. It is what gives you that short, tender crumb that dissolves on your tongue instead of snapping between your teeth. With unsalted butter and real vanilla extract, you get three ingredients that actually taste like something and nothing hiding them. A fluted round cutter, a fork to prick the tops, and they look like they came out of a bakery case. Honestly, you are not working hard for this one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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