4 Ingredient Shortbread Cookies (So Easy)
Buttery, tender, and incredibly simple shortbread cookies with a fun M&M twist, requiring just 4 pantry staples.
- Prep Time: 20
- Cook Time: 14
- Total Time: 70
- Yield: 24 cookies
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
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- 230 grams (1 cup / 2 sticks) butter, room temperature
- 65 grams (1/2 cup) icing sugar or powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 280 grams (2 cups) plain flour or all purpose flour
- 150 grams (3/4 cup) mini M&M candy
Instructions
- Place butter in a large mixing bowl.
- Beat butter with an electric mixer until pale and creamy.
- Add icing sugar, vanilla extract, and plain flour to the bowl.
- Beat briefly with the electric mixer until a soft cookie dough forms.
- Stir through mini M&M’s by hand.
- Place the dough on a piece of baking or wax paper.
- Use your hands to mould the dough into a long circular roll.
- Roll the dough tightly in the baking paper.
- Squeeze the ends of the paper shut to seal the dough log.
- Place the dough in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F) standard.
- Preheat oven to 160 C (320 F) fan-forced.
- Line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Use a large knife to cut the chilled dough into 1/2 inch thick slices.
- Place cookie dough slices on the prepared baking tray.
- Bake cookies for approximately 12-14 minutes.
- Bake until the edges are golden.
- Leave cookies to cool completely on the baking tray.