Butter Shortbread Biscuits. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. 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. 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. 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 Butter Shortbread Biscuits using 5 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Butter Shortbread Biscuits

You need 500 g of Plain Flour.
It's 400 g of butter.
You need 100 g of caster sugar.
It's of Milk too bind an glaze.
It's of Granulated Sugar too sprinkle over glaze.

Just a bowl and spoon are needed, here. 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. Try making these easy, buttery shortbread biscuits for an afternoon activity with the kids.

Butter Shortbread Biscuits step by step

There is the hand method,have only ever used this method,namely Flour in a mixing bowl and then you rub in - small cube's of butter with plenty of flour attached - until you get a breadcrumb texture and then you mix in the sugar,will probably need a little milk too bind into a firm ball..
Preheat oven to Gas Mark 3.Grease baking tray,flatten out Shortbread dough,use a Dinner Fork too print slight dents around the edges and then pick holes in the rest - with the use of the same Dinner Fork..
Use a Cooking Brush too glaze Pasteurized Cow Milk over the whole Shortbread Biscuit and then sprinkle granulated white sugar over the top and then continually bake at Gas Mark 3 for probably 1 hour - Shortbread biscuits are always served cold,rest on a wire rack and then when cold - eat - and enjoy..

This recipe also works as homemade Christmas presents, with chocolate chips or orange zest added the dough. Taste of Home Cranberry Shortbread Stars My family loves shortbread and I love cranberries, so I decided to put the two together. The star shape is a festive. Put the butter and sugar into a large bowl and cream together, using an electric hand-held whisk or wooden spoon, until light and fluffy. Cream the butter with sugar, until light and fluffy.