Recipe: Tasty Best ever Scottish shortbread

Best ever Scottish shortbread. Cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Also, it helps concentrate those flavors for your best ever shortbread. Let the cookies cool on the pan for about five minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. The result should be a nice, tender shortbread cookie. The recipe I learned only had three ingredients!

I've made shortbread since I was a little girl. Let's make the best ( and most authentic and easiest) Scottish shortbread ever! Today on Decorating Tips And Tricks we are talking about BEST TIPS FOR HOSTING THANKSGIVING DINNER. You can cook Best ever Scottish shortbread using 3 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Best ever Scottish shortbread

1. It's 12 oz of Plain flour.
2. Prepare 8 oz of Slightly salted butter.
3. Prepare 4 oz of Caster sugar.

We have the SO many tips today! When I was a young kid one or other of us in turn occasionally used to be allowed to wreak havoc in the kitchen. I used to make the most mess - but the best cakes! This is a recipe I asked for from the elderly Scottish pastry cook who used to live opposite.

Best ever Scottish shortbread step by step

1. Line a baking tray with parchment and turn the oven on to gas mark 3 low..
2. Add the plain flour and chopped butter to a large mixing bowl..
3. Rub the butter into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs..
4. Add the caster sugar and carry on rubbing in until thoroughly dispersed in the mixture..
5. When the mixture starts to stick together, knead until it forms a nice pliable dough..
6. Knead into a square block..
7. Shape into a square slab on a chopping board..
8. If following my quantities as listed above, cut the slab into four, but if doubling the ingredients enough to make 64 biscuits shape into a rectangle and cut into eight pieces as shown in the picture here..
9. Take each piece in turn and roll into a sausage shape..
10. Cut with a sharp knife into eight circles..
11. Place each biscuit carefully onto the baking tray spaced to allow for spreading during cooking. Prick each biscuit three times with a fork..
12. Place on the middle shelf of the oven on a low setting and cook the biscuits for about 35 to 40 minutes. Do not let them get too dark in color, they should be a very pale color when done..
13. Take out of the oven and leave to cool down a bit before taking them off the tray as they will be too soft and break..
14. Cool them on a wire rack..
15. When cooled dip each shortbread biscuit into a bowl of caster sugar and shake off the excess sugar..
16. These biscuits store well in a tin..
17. Enjoy!.

She even had me bake it one time in HER kitchen - none of my siblings were so privileged - boy was I was smug about that! If you are looking for an easy, yummy and amazing cookie recipe I have you covered. This is the best Scottish Shortbread cookie recipe you will ever try. You can find the printable recipe below as well as a free Christmas tag printable. Baking Christmas cookies has become one of my very favorite family traditions.