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3 Ingredient Melt in Your Mouth Shortbread Cookies
photo by anniesnomsblog
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 3
- Yields:
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30 cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 cup icing sugar
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Combine all ingredients and mix for a FULL 10 minutes.
- Yes, I said a full 10 minutes!
- Mixture will start out very dry and crumbly but will become batter like after the full 10 minutes.
- I like to use my stand mixer for this, but a hand mixer will do the trick if it is a strong one.
- Drop from teaspoons or a piping bag onto a cookie sheet, I find teaspoons work best.
- Decorate with maraschino cherries or sprinkles if you feel fancy.
- Bake for approx 15 minutes or until bottoms are very lightly brown.
- Watch that the tops don't turn brown!
Reviews
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A great quick treat! Recipe is very simple and the end product melts in your mouth. I used a teaspoon to drop the cookies and got a fleet of these bite-sized melters. I baked two ways, one was dusting the dropped dough with granulated sugar and flattening down the cookie - this resulted in a more crispy cookie, which tasted fine, but I preferred the cookies straight from the dough drop - any irregularities on top baked to a golden brown which looked and tasted delicious. Perfect with a glass of milk.
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Tweaks
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Very good when you are needing a sweet treat and haven't made a trip to the grocery in a while because everyone always has those 3 ingredients on hand. Since I didn't want plain old shortbread cookies I substituted 1/4 cup of the flour for cocoa powder, added a dash of salt, and a few drops of vanilla extract. After the 10 min of beating I added chocolate chips then baked according to recipe. They turned out great. I don't like how crumbly they are only because I have 3 little boys who make messes with them but they were a big hit with them and was told to add this to my frequent dessert list!
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these were soooooo easy and they really do melt in your mouth!! I made them one morning before work, thats how easy they are. I did have to bake them longer than 15 minutes though to get them to brown on the bottom, but they were so sweet and delicate once they were done. I also used margarine instead of butter and it was ok. I will definetaly make these again!! I love them!!! Thanks!
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Not sure what I did wrong with the recipe cause I fellowed the recipe as stated. I found that the cookies didn't stick together very well, they broke up before you could pick them up off the platter. We loved the flavor though and thats why I am giving it a 4 star rating. They were simple to make. I used margarine instead of butter so that might be the reason for the problems I had. I will be trying the recipe again with butter instead of margarine. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
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