Mini Shortbread Cookies

Total Time: 32 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 17 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• 1/2 cup icing sugar
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup butter, softened (no substitute)
• red cherries or green cherries or chocolate chips

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 300 degrees f.
• 2 sift the corn starch, icing sugar and flour.
• 3 blend in the butter until dough is completely smooth (i usually just use my hands to do this).
• 4 roll out dough on a floured surface to 1/4" thick.
• 5 cut cookies using a 1" round or heart shaped cookie cutter (these cookies turn out much better small).
• 6 reform the leftover pieces of cookie dough to roll and make more cookies.
• 7 place cookies on a shiny cookie pan (preferably one of the insulated types).
• 8 top cookies with either 1/4 or 1/2 of a cherry (these are tiny cookies and depending on cherry size do just fine with 1/4 of a cherry) or a chocolate chip.
• 9 bake at 300 degrees f for 17-18 minutes.
• 10 these cookies do not turn noticibly brown.