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 3 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Buttery Shortbread

Prepare 75 grams of butter (2/3 cup).
It's 50 grams of golden granulated sugar (1/2 cup).
You need 100 grams of plain flour (7/8 cup).

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

Preheat oven to gas mark 5.
In a bowl, cut together the butter and sugar until mixed..
Add flour and stir with a spoon until moulded together..
On a clean surface add a sprinkling of flour n roll out mixture. You want it to be rolled out thickly so dont press too hard..
Using a biscuit cutter, trim n cut out. Place directly onto baking tray evenly spread apart..
With a fork, make indents into your biscuits. This will help the cooking process..
Put in the oven until just golden, approx.25mins..
Transfer to wire to cool for 5mins. 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.