Perfect Shortbread Cookies!

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 1 lb lightly-salted butter
• 1 cup superfine sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups cake flour

Recipe

• 1 work cold butter with hands until soft and cream in the sugar. mix flours and salt together and work into butter. knead gently until soft (not oily) and forms a ball.
• 2 roll dough to 3/8-inch thickness on a cookie sheet, mark pieces with a ruler to make 1" x 2" cookies and prick each cookie with a fork three times. chill dough at least one hour (but up to 48 hours is still ok).
• 3 heat oven to 375 degrees and reduce heat to 275 degrees as soon as you put the cookies in the oven.
• 4 cut cookies apart and place on baking sheets. bake in center of the oven at 275 degrees for 30 - 40 minutes.