Shortbread Cookies - Super Easy and Only A Few Ingrediants

On my quest to find the perfect cookie for my daughter's birthday party this Saturday I came up with two recipes. This is the only recipe that I liked but I am super picky!

**I used this recipe in my cookie press but it will work without a cookie press too.**

Beth's Shortbread Cookies 

1C butter, softened
1 1/2C All-Purpose Flour
1/2C Confectioners Sugar
1/4tsp Vanilla extract
1/2C Corn Starch
2tbsp Granulated Sugar (not normally in shortbread but after I mixed the ingredients together I was not happy with the taste so I added sugar)


Preheat to 350F.

Cream the butter, confectioners sugar, and vanilla together until smooth. Stir in the flour and corn starch.

Press into the cookie press and press onto ungreased cookie sheet. (If it is greased or has foil/parchment paper on the sheet it will not allow the dough to grab the sheet and come out of the cookie press.)

Bake 8-10 minutes until the tops are golden.

Half the recipe above made about 3 dozen cookies about 1" in size and flower shaped.

These are melt in your mouth good and taste similar to my mothers wedding cookies she makes.

They are blue since I added some blue neon food coloring to the batter to go along with the Cinderella theme my daughter asked for.  The other half will be pink.

The cookies came out two ways.  One when I held the press down for 4 counts it made them a little bigger and fluffier.  When I held the press down for 3 counts the cookies turned out like the 3 in the bottom right hand corner of the photo.