Need a short bread cookie recipe quick

[MrScorpio]

Hurry up, I'm on a time table

[SOteric]

1. Okay...

Shortbread
1/4 pound butter
1/4 cup confectioner's sugar
3/4 cup flour, unbleached
3/8 cup cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon almond or vanilla extract - optional

Preheat oven to 300° F.
Cream the butter. Stir in the sugar until well blended. Sift in the flour and cornstarch. Add the almond or vanilla extract, if you wish. Stir until the mixture just begins to come together. Take care not to overwork the dough because this will make the cookie tough and shortbread should be delicate.
Pat the dough into a circle about 1/2 inch thick on a highly oiled cookie sheet. Punch a bunch of holes in the dough with a fork. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes, until just beginning to turn golden, but not brown.
Cut into wedges while still warm.

[MrScorpio]

2. Thanks

Time to get to work

[Floogeldy]

6. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[thatgemguy]

3. A little variation..

Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

4 Tblspoons Cocoa
6 oz icing (powdered) sugar
8 oz butter (not, repeat NOT margarine...BUTTER at room temperature)
16 oz (two cups) flour
Mix in a large bowl with your fingers. (No mixers). Mix until completely mixed, and only then. Place in a cookie sheet (the dough should come to the top of the cookie sheet for proper thickness) . THIS AMOUNT WILL COVER 1/3 TO 1/4 OF THE AVERAGE COOKIE SHEET. Score the shortbread into "fingers" BEFORE baking (that is, rectangles about 1 inch by 3 inches). Bake at 325 degrees fahrenheit, for about 15 - 20 minutes (or until you can smell shortbread two rooms away...which is where I usally am, doing something else...when I can smell the shortbread...its done.).
Re-score the shortbread. Leave it in the cookie sheet. Now we will make the topping. Melt a bar of white chocolate in the microwave (remembering to melt in short spurts of 10 seconds, stir, melt some more, until it is completely melted. Add about 2 tablespoons of cocoa and stir. Ice the shortbread with this. NEXT: Mix 4 tablespoons of powdered sugar with about 2 tablespoons of cocoa, add hot water until you have a fairly runny icing. Drizzle this over the chocolate icing on the shortbread. Re-score the shortbread before the icing sets. These are RICH and have no redeeming dietary value what-so-ever...but they are GOOD....

[Floogeldy]

7. OH, OH, OH, OH, OH

[KT2000]

4. Here's a Scotch Shortbread

3/4 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups all purpose flour

mix butter and sugar thoroughly. work in flour with hands. chill dough.

roll dough 1/3 - 1/2 " thick
cut into desired shapes. place on ungreased cookie sheet
bake 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees.
makes 2 doz. 1 1/2x1" cookies

from betty crocker cookie book

[MrScorpio]

5. Just checked. Goddammit all out of butter

Can I use extra virgin olive oil as a substitute?

[lady lib]

8. A suggestion to help you help yourself

Next time go to allrecipes.com. You can look up just about anything and get recipes. Hope your cookies are delicious!