Shortbread Cookies
 Another Cup of Sugar
Anna Olson
Pastry chef extrodinaire. Host of the popular Food Network Canada show, Sugar,
Anna delivers a new book that will satisfy the sweet tooth and then some. Each
chapter is focused around a them ingredient eg. brown sugar. Get the butter,
flour and sugar to the ready! Softcover 272 pp. $24.95.
1 cup / 250ml unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup + 2bsp / 150ml icing sugar
1/4 cup / 60ml cornstarch or rice flour
1 1/2 cups / 375ml all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp / 2ml fine salt
1 tsp / 5ml vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350F. Beat butter until light and fluffy. Sift in
icing sugar and beat again until fluffy, scraping down the sides
of the bowl often. Sift in cornstarch or rice flour and blend in.
Sift in all-purpose flour and salt and mix until dough comes together
(it will be soft). Stir in vanilla.
Spoon large teaspoonfuls of cookie dough (or use a small ice cream
scoop) onto an ungreased cookie sheet, leaving 2 inches between cookies,
and bake for 18-20 minutes, until bottoms brown lightly. Remove from
cookie sheet to cook on a rack.
Makes about 3 dozen.
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