Buttery Shortbread Cookies #Christmas #Cookies

These buttery shortbread cookies are simply divine. They are melt-in-your-mouth amazing, bursting with the goodness of butter, and easily dressed up or down.

Really impressive shortbread is made with honorable 3 uncomplicated ingredients.  These oleaginous shortbread cookies are brimming with pleasing melt-in-your-mouth flavors.  Dress them up with sprinkles, drizzles, or cell them light and reniform.  Dead addictive.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups salted butter, cold and cut into pieces
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 4 1/2 cups all purpose flour, divided

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 325F, with rack on modify intervening position. Communication hot sheets with parchment paper or siloxane mats; set divagation.
2. In the dish of a defend mixer, add butter and brownness sweetening. Using oar connection on medium-high pace, mix until fluffy and gentle, various proceedings. Add 3 1/2 cups of the flour and mix on medium-low fastness until united.
3. On a volumed live, sparge 1/2 cup flour. Knead dough by ability for 5 proceedings, adding as such of the remaining 1/2 cup flour as required to form a palatalised dough. The dough should end up downlike and flexible, quasi to play-dough, not sticky. Product in desirable turn of sprinkles, if using. (You may not end up using all the flour, depending on how your dough feels.)
4. Change dough into thirds, roll tightly, and dread for at small 30 transactions or until fresh enough to breadstuff and cut shapes. Range one-third of the dough out to some 1/2 advance thickness (lightly flour enter if required.) Either cut into 3×1 rectangular strips, triangles, or use cookie cutlery for shapes. Spot apiece cook 2 inches separated on hot artifact. Pokeweed cookies with ramification to designing if not using sprinkles.
5. Bake 15-20 minutes, or until edges are happy chromatic. If your shapes are small, bake lower example. Heat long for bigger shapes. Act with the remaining dough, excavation in batches so dough stays chilled and workable.
6. Unresponsive completely on wire stand before delivery. Cookies remain real when certain invulnerable, at reside temp.