It’s not unusual for a cookie to be named after one of its star ingredients, like chocolate chips or butter. However, in the case of cornstarch cookies the titular ingredient doesn’t dominate the flavor profile. Instead the cornstarch here gives these cookies a melt-in-your-mouth texture that’s out of this world. The light consistency provides the perfect backdrop for the simple flavors of butter and powdered sugar to take center stage. This is a must-try cookie recipe that is uncomplicated to make, but yields big results.

The first step to making these delicate cookies is to combine flour, cornstarch, and sugar in one bowl, then cream the butter in another. You want your butter to turn lighter in color and to be filled with air. This helps it to blend into the air-light texture of the powdered sugar.

Once you have the dough made up it does need to chill in the refrigerator for an hour so that the cookies don’t flatten out during baking.

Roll the dough into balls and then flatten them out using the back of a fork.

Then bake them for 20 minutes and then they have to cool again before you apply a dusting of more powdered sugar. This prevents the heat and moisture of the cookies from melting the sugar.

These are perfect to eat with tea or coffee, but make equally good potluck or bake sale cookies, too. This is truly an easy recipe with a big payoff for such a small amount of work.