Shortbread Cookie Recipe {with video}
Enoy this delightful shortbread, with a few easy steps!
Ingredients
- 225 g Butter (room temperature)
- 130 g Caster Sugar (granulated works too)
- 350 g Plain flour
- Sugar for sprinkling
Instructions
- Grease a tart dish in preparation for the shortbread dough
- In a bowl, add the flour and sugar and mix with a spoon. Rub in the butter and work lightly with your fingertips. Continue mixing and pressing until it forms the dough.
- Put the dough into a greased tart dish. Alternatively, pat the dough into a rectangle shape and slice into shortbread fingers approx 1.5cm thick)
- Prick the shortbread evenly with a fork and slice into segments before baking. Dust a light covering of sugar on the top which will caramelise
- Baking in a pre-heated oven (Gas mark 4, 180°C) for 40 minutes or until light golden brown. Shortbread fingers will cook between 20-25 minutes.
- Once baked, slice the segments to ensure separation and sprinkle again with sugar. Allow to cool for one hour. Store in an airtight container.