Shortbread two ways

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
• 1/3 cup powdered sugar (unsifted)
• 1/4 tsp vanilla or maple syrup
• 1 cup flour (unsifted)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325F
2. Cream the butter until the color lightens, then cream in powdered sugar, then vanilla, then flour
3. Knead briefly without adding any flour until dough is smooth
4. Press dough into nonstick sprayed pan and prick surface with a fork
5. Bake for about 30 minutes until lightly browned, and cool in the pan for 10 minutes; turn onto a wooden cutting board and cut immediately (if you wait till it cools it will fall apart when you cut it)

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
• 1 1/2 Tbsp. cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar (unsifted)
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup flour (unsifted)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325F
2. Cream the butter until the color lightens, then cream in powdered sugar, then cocoa powder, then vanilla, then flour
3. Knead briefly without adding any flour until dough is smooth
4. Press dough into nonstick sprayed pan and prick surface with a fork
5. Bake for about 30 minutes until lightly browned (make sure the edges do not brown too much), and cool in the pan for 10 minutes; turn onto a wooden cutting board and cut immediately (if you wait till it cools it will fall apart when you cut it)

http://oneparticularkitchen.com/2011/03/16/shortbread/

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