Traditional Shortbread
Serves
12
Total Time
1hrs 15mins
Calories
137
We like crunchy shortbread fingers in a towering stack. This recipe also works for a pizza-sized circle cut into wedges, or for neat little cut-out cookies.
- All purpose flour
120 g (about 1 cup)
- Cornstarch
50 g (about ½ cup)
- Salt
½ teaspoon (about 3 g)
- Unsalted butter
115 g (about ½ cup)room temperature
- Granulated sugar
55 g (about ¼ cup)
INGREDIENTS
- 1. Add all purpose flour, cornstarch and salt to a clean large mixing bowl
- 2. Whisk briefly and set aside
- 3. Add unsalted butter and granulated sugar to a clean large mixing bowl
- 4. Cream together until pale and light
- 5. Transfer dry ingredients to dough
- 6. Knead until dough forms
- 7. Chill - 30 min
- 8. Pre-heat a clean baking pan oven - 150°C
- 9. Line with parchment paper
- 10. Roll out until 1 cm thick
- 11. Slice
- 12. Prick lightly
- 13. Bake until golden brown - 25 min, 150°C
- 14. Transfer onto cooling rack
METHOD
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