Shortbread Butter Biscuits. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. And if that's not enough to tempt your taste buds, they get dipped in a tart, lemony glaze. Cookies taste more lemony the next day.. Shortbread biscuits fill the kitchen with a wonderful buttery freshly-baked smell. So simple and easy to flavour with your own choice of chocolate chips, nuts and fruit zest.

Because these cookies are so simple, it's important to use a really good butter. I usually opt for European Style butter, which has a higher milk fat content than the cheaper butter. The whole point of these cookies is that you get a crisp, buttery experience where the sweet cream flavor of butter really comes through, so it's worth the little bit of extra money to get the good stuff. You can cook Shortbread Butter Biscuits using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Shortbread Butter Biscuits

You need 250 g of Butter *softened.
It's 1/2 cup of Caster Sugar.
It's 2 cups of Plain Flour.
Prepare 1/4 cup of Rice Flour *finely ground type, I use Asian Rice Flour.

Shortbread is a traditional Scottish biscuit. Guests here on holiday enjoy these home made shortbread biscuits. Shortbread originated in Scotland so Wikipedia tells me, comprising one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour. Shortbread is one of the most famous Scottish cookies.

Shortbread Butter Biscuits instructions

Preheat oven to 160C. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper..
Mix softened Butter and Sugar until smooth and well combined. Add Plain Flour and Rice Flour and mix well. Use your hands to bring the dough together in the bowl..
Roll out the dough on a floured surface until 1cm thick and cut into shapes..
Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until lightly golden, swapping trays halfway through cooking. Set aside on the trays for 10 minutes to cool before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely..

It is eaten around Christmas and is also an essential part of a traditional Scottish New Year ( called Hogmanay). Combine sugar, orange zest, vanilla extract and salt with warm melted butter. We think of these as classic shortbread cookies. Our muse was the traditional Scottish shortbread cookies sold in the store. On top of being an incredibly versatile and easy recipe to remember, these easy Shortbread Cookies are made in just one bowl and bake up super fast.