Ingredients
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- 1 cup unsalted real butter, cubed (not margarine)
- 1 cup cane sugar
- 2 eggs
- 4 cups flour
- ¾ cup cornstarch
- ¾ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
- 1 teaspoon flavored extract of your choice
Instructions
- Cream the butter and sugar until just combined – do not overmix.
- Add the eggs and mix.
- Add the flour, cornstarch and salt to the butter mixture and combine.
- Mix just until the mixture forms a ball.
- Stir in the vanilla bean paste and flavored extract of choice.
- Wrap the dough in Saran Wrap and refrigerate for one hour.
- Remove the chilled dough from the refrigerator and roll it out to ¼ inch thickness.
- Cut out the cookie dough shapes, lay them out on parchment paper lined cookie sheets and put them back in the refrigerator for an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- Place the cookies into the oven on the parchment lined cookie sheets and bake for 9 to 12 minutes.
- Cool completely on a wire rack.
- Decorate as desired.
- Prep Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Oven
