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. 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!
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 cook Buttery shortbread using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Buttery shortbread
- You need 225 g of plain flour.
- You need 225 g of cold butter.
- You need 110 g of caster sugar.
- You need 110 g of corn flour.
- You need Pinch of salt.
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. There is a delicious burst of fresh lemon flavor in these buttery, tender shortbread cookies that are then dipped in a tart, lemony glaze. The buttery shortbread texture just melts in your mouth. It's a hit wherever I take it. —Susan Ciuffreda, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
Buttery shortbread step by step
- Mix your flours and sugar together.
- Dice the butter to small chunks..
- Add diced butter to the flour mix and rub in with palm. Add the butter little bit at a time until every thing is combined..
- Roll the dough into a log and chill in the fridge for about 3hrs..
- Slice the log into about a centimetre thick and place on a tray with baking paper..
- Bake.
- When ready, dust with some sugar and leave to cool totally on the tray before moving. Enjoy!.
Taste of Home Shortbread Squares Here's a traditional shortbread recipe that's perfect with a cup of hot tea or coffee. It's a favorite during the holidays. —G. 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.