Buttery shortbread. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. This basic Scottish butter shortbread is a simple three-ingredient cookie that is more of the sums of its parts. The name comes from the fact that "short" was an old usage for the term "crumbly." Because of the high fat content, the biscuit's texture is indeed crumbly and crispy. These buttery-rich, crisp shortbread cookies are a great wheat-free alternative to classic shortbread. Without the additional coconut flavor, they have the faint aroma and taste of coconut thanks to coconut flour.

With the flavor, you'll have a cookie with robust coconut taste, perfect for dunking into a pot of chocolate fondue or glass of milk. Rich, buttery shortbread cookies that are simple to make and sturdy enough to be kept for days (if not weeks when chilled). There's minimal ingredients required and no mixer! You can cook Buttery shortbread using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Buttery shortbread

You need 225 g of plain flour.
You need 225 g of cold butter.
You need 110 g of caster sugar.
You need 110 g of corn flour.
Prepare Pinch of salt.

Just a bowl and spoon are needed, here. Discard the top sheet of parchment. Buttery Shortbread With its light, buttery flavour and sugar-crystal sweetness, this shortbread is impossible to resist. You can flavour it if you like, adding a handful of chocolate chips or a sprinkling of finely chopped rosemary, or lavender to the dough as you knead it.

Buttery shortbread step by step

Mix your flours and sugar together.
Dice the butter to small chunks..
Add diced butter to the flour mix and rub in with palm. Add the butter little bit at a time until every thing is combined..
Roll the dough into a log and chill in the fridge for about 3hrs..
Slice the log into about a centimetre thick and place on a tray with baking paper..
Bake.
When ready, dust with some sugar and leave to cool totally on the tray before moving. Enjoy!.

A successful shortbread is light and crumbly, with a dense buttery taste. These traditional Scottish treats have very few ingredients, which is why using the best butter you can find is so important. While some might argue that adding corn starch isn't traditional, the fact is that it has been added for decades to make the shortbread crisper on. The buttery shortbread texture just melts in your mouth. It's a hit wherever I take it. —Susan Ciuffreda, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.