Coleen's Shortbread

Total Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup plus 1 tbsp. salted butter, room temperature
• 1/3 cup berry sugar
• pastry flour
• 1 fresh vanilla bean

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f
• 2 put flour in a bowl, and mix in seeds from vanilla bean pod.
• 3 in an electric mixer, beat butter on high speed until fluffy and light yellow.
• 4 add sugar slowly until fluffy.
• 5 remove bowl from mixer and mix in flour by hand. work the dough as little as possible.
• 6 roll out ot 1/3 inch thickness.
• 7 cut with simple shaped cookie cutter or into bars with a knife.
• 8 prick with a fork and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• 9 bake for 20-25 minutes. do not let brown.
• 10 dust with sugar and place on racks to cool.
• 11 you can use all-purpose flour, but 00 is finer.
• 12 tip: buy a high quality heavy cooking sheet, and your cookies will never burn from the bottom.