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Melting Moments
These Melting Moments truly are the lightest, most delicious, melt in your mouth, shortbread cookies that I've ever tried. Wonderful dipped in chocolate & freeze well too.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 24 cookies
Calories 123 kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 2/3 cup icing sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp lemon extract
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup potato flour (substitute potato starch if potato flour is not available)
Instructions
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Cream together the butter, icing sugar, vanilla and lemon extracts.
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Sift together the all purpose flour and potato flour.
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Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and blend together until a soft dough is formed.
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Roll n one inch balls and place 2 inches apart on a parchment lined baking sheet.
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Flatten the balls slightly with a fork and add a gumdrop or half a glace cherry to the center of each cookie if desired.
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Bake at 350 degrees F for 15-20 minutes or until very slightly brown. These will still be quite pale when baked.
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Cool on a wire rack. These are also very good dipped in chocolate.
Recipe Notes
The potato flour we uses years ago in this recipe is harder to find nowadays. It is not the yellow tinged potato flour sometimes sold at bulk stores. It is more similar in texture to corn starch, so if you cannot find it, that would be an acceptable substitute.