Description
Whipping up the 3-ingredient cookie takes just minutes with pantry staples that blend into pure simplicity. These crumbly, sweet treats deliver maximum flavor with minimal effort and zero fuss.
Ingredients
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Main Ingredients:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup butter
- ⅓ cup sugar
Instructions
- Heat your oven to 350°F and arrange parchment paper across a standard baking sheet.
- Take ½ cup softened butter and ⅓ cup sugar into a medium bowl. Whisk these ingredients together until the mixture appears creamy and pale.
- Incorporate 1 cup all-purpose flour into the butter mixture, stirring until a smooth dough develops.
- Shape the dough into compact 1-inch spheres using your palms, spacing each ball approximately 2 inches apart on the prepared sheet.
- Delicately press a fork across the surface of each dough ball, creating a gentle crosshatch design.
- Slide the baking sheet into the preheated 350°F oven and bake for 12-15 minutes, watching for edges to turn a soft golden color.
- Extract the cookies from the oven and permit them to rest on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, allowing them to set.
- Carefully transfer the cookies onto a wire cooling rack, letting them reach complete room temperature.
- Preserve your freshly baked treats inside an airtight container, where they will remain delectable for up to 5 days.
Notes
- For the most tender cookies, make sure the butter is truly softened at room temperature but not melted.
- Chill the dough for 15-20 minutes before rolling if the mixture feels too soft or sticky.
- Use a light touch when pressing the fork pattern so your cookies stay delicate and don’t flatten completely.
- Replace wheat flour with gluten-free flour blend for a celiac-friendly version that maintains the same classic shortbread texture.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 12-15 minutes
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 145 kcal
- Sugar: 4 g
- Sodium: 1 mg
- Fat: 8 g
- Saturated Fat: 5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3 g
- Trans Fat: 0.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 16 g
- Fiber: 0.5 g
- Protein: 1.5 g
- Cholesterol: 21 mg