Shortbread

With everyone feeling crappy and us having decorated our house (a little early I know) for Christmas I thought I would make some shortbread cookies. I didn't have my Grandma's recipe on hand so I found one from the Food Network Canada website I thought I would try. They were different than I normally make as these were a drop cookie but they were still good. You can't go wrong with shortbread during the holidays.

Ingredients
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons icing sugar, sifted
1/4 cup cornstarch or rice flour
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Beat butter until light and fluffy. Add icing sugar and beat again until fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl. Sift in cornstarch or rice flour, blend in. Sift in flour and salt. Combine (dough will be soft) stir in vanilla.

Spoon large teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet leaving 2 inches between cookies. Bake 18-20 minutes until bottoms lightly browned. Remove from cookie sheet to cool. Enjoy!