Aussie Melting Moments

• Cookies:
• 250g butter (at room temperature)
• 80g pure icing sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 265g plain flour (1 3/4 cup)
• 50g cornflour (cornstarch, (1/3 cup)
• Hard Icing:
• 1 teaspoon of butter
• 1 cup of pure icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon of milk
• lemon or orange zest
• or
• Whole walnut halves

1. Preheat oven to 160 deg Celsius Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
2. Beat butter, icing sugar/mixture and vanilla essence with an electric mixer until pale and creamy.
3. Sift together flour and cornflour, and add to the butter mixture.
4. Mix together gently with a wooden spoon, and then with your hands.
5. Use lightly floured hands to roll mix into walnut-sized balls.
6. Put on trays about 5cm apart, and flatten with a lightly floured fork to about 1cm thick.
7. Bake for about 15 minutes, swapping trays in oven halfway through (ie. at 7 minutes), until cooked through.
8. Cool on baking trays.

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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/aussie-melting-moments-1236565 (may not work)