Mom's Whipped Shortbread Cookies

Zac baking cookies,
Christmas 2007

These little bits of heaven melt in your mouth!  My mom has made these for many people over the years, delivering them on goody trays far and wide.  They quickly become a favourite ... love at first bite.  My Aunt Sharon used to make them too and this is mom's slight variation of the original recipe.  Don't forget to sprinkle with some festive sugar to dress them up even though they are perfect on their own! 
Be sure to keep them small enough so that you can pop one into your mouth ... they are much easier to steal that way!!!

Ingredients
1 lb of butter at room temperature
1 cup of icing sugar
3 cups of flour
1/2 cup of corn starch
1 tsp vanilla

-Sift flour and corn starch together into a bowl and set aside
-Whip butter, sugar and vanilla together until light and fluffy
-Add in sifted dry ingredients and mix on low gradually increasing speed until ingredients are well combined.
-Drop by tablespoon fulls on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and sprinkle with coloured sugar

Bake at 300 for 12 minutes or until the slightest brown appears around the bottom edge of each cookie
Cool on rack and eat immediately!!!