Making fun shortbread cookies in a dorm room!

Baking is not all that easy in college- especially when you don't have a kitchen at your disposal. However, these challenges will not stop you from making delicious treats! It is still possible to make cookies without a kitchen, and with everyday utensils.

Step 1 Gather your ingredients

You will need:
1 1/2 sticks of unsalted butter at room temperature
1/2 cup of sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups of all-purpose flour
1/8 tsp salt

This will yield approximately 10 cookies.

Also, preheat an oven to 350 degrees.
I used a small and cheap toaster oven that I keep to reheat food... it worked out fine for me, but the cookies come out a tad uneven, so be prepared to rotate the pan if need be!

Comments

[lemonie]

Ow my eyes!
Good work, easy to follow too. Is there any reason to use unsalted butter, or is that just what you had?

L

[evelynkwu]

I recommend using unsalted butter because it allows you to control all of the salt that goes into whatever you make. It's just to make sure everything tastes as it should!

[eleraama]

FWIW, there was a New York Times article a couple of months ago about butter, and the general opinion is that salted vs unsalted butter doesn't make a difference (in the words of a French chef "Salt makes food taste better. So why not?") and primarily stems from regional differences (Americans use unsalted, the French use salted)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/dining/17bake.html

[lemonie]

Right - that's a good answer, thanks! L