Traditional Shortbread. This shortbread cookie is a traditional Scottish recipe. These are round cookies sandwiched with jam and topped off with a delicious icing and a cherry. Shortbread is one of the most famous Scottish cookies. It is eaten around Christmas and is also an essential part of a traditional Scottish New Year ( called Hogmanay). The success of a "shortie"—the Scottish nickname for shortbread—is to handle the dough with care and work it as little as possible.
Traditional Scottish Shortbread Recipe Perfectly crumbly, irresistibly buttery and wonderfully delicious, Scottish Shortbread has been a year-round favorite treat for centuries!
Shortbread is as basic and simple as a cookie (biscuit) can get.
Easy Shortbread Cookies are the best Christmas cookie recipe!
You can cook Traditional Shortbread using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Traditional Shortbread
- Prepare 25 of p grams of butter, softened.
- You need 1/2 (1 cup) of icing sugar, sifted.
- It's 1 2/3 cups of plain flour.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of rice flour.
Crumbly, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread dough made with just butter, sugar, and flour. Butter Cookies are an easy classic Cookie Recipe that no holiday dessert tray would be complete without. These classic shortbreads are even easier to make and just as essential this holiday. You can make traditional wedges, like you see above, or cute little cookies, like you see below.
Traditional Shortbread instructions
- Beat butter and icing sugadin a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffg. Sift in flours, combine well with a wooden spoon..
- Press dough inti a ball. Knead lightly untik smooth. Pat dough into a 23 cn round, about 1 cm thick, on greased baking tray..
- Score into fingers or wedges. Pierce with fork. Bake at 140°c for 35-40 minites or until set and browned..
- Cool on trays for 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack. When almost cool. Cut througg line into pieces (try using a bread knife in a sawing motion for neat pieces). Cool shortbread completely. Store in an airthight container..
- Note: dough can be rolled out and cut into small rounds or bars, cut with scone or biscuit cutters or pressed into wooden shortbread or butter moulds, as desired. Reduce baking times is cooking smaller pieces..
Even the way Scottish shortbread is decorated is symbolic and traditional. Easy Shortbread Cookies Recipe is delicious and easy to make dessert, snack and traditional Christmas treat. Classic shortbread cookies recipe uses only three ingredients: salted butter, powdered sugar and flour. If you add a hint of vanilla extract, you'll have the best shortbread cookies ever. It was the first shortbread recipe I ever made, and I've never found a better one.