Melt-In-Your-Mouth Shortbread - butter

Method

• Preheat the oven to 350.
• In a large bowl cream together the butter, sugar and vanilla until very creamy.
• In 3 additions, beat in the cornstarch and flour.
• Continue to beat the dough until it resembles whipped cream in texture, about 2 minutes.
• Drop by heaping tablespoons on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 15 minutes, or until the bottoms start to turn the lightest shade of brown but the tops and sides are still perfectly white.
• Let cool on the cookie sheet for 10 minutes then carefully transfer to a cooling rack.