Raisin shortbread. Raisin Shortbreads have been in my head for months, ever since I saw a recipe in Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Fruit Cookbook. The thought of soft and chewy dark raisins in a tender and crumbly shortbread sounded too good to pass by. So I bought a good quality butter and some Thompson raisins and made. Tip the other half of the shortbread mixture on top of the raisins and once again press down to create an flat and even layer. You should now have a shortbread, raisin sandwich.
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Source: Maida Heatter's Book of Great Cookies These are large and thick, with rum-soaked raisins all through them.
The dough is very short; the cookies are rather delicate and quite unusual.
You can cook Raisin shortbread using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Raisin shortbread
- Prepare 225 gms of butter.
- You need 120 gms of icing sugar.
- You need 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
- Prepare Pinch of salt.
- You need 150 gms of raisens.
- You need 325 gms of plain flour.
- You need 1 of egg to glaze.
The raisins must be prepared several hours ahead of time or the day before. Rum-Raisin Shortbread Cookies Rum-Raisin Shortbread Cookies. Beat together the butter, salt, and vanilla until creamy. Add the powdered sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy.
Raisin shortbread instructions
- Preheat oven to 180, then line a 8x8 inch cake tin,then With a hand mixer mix butter for about 1 minute.
- Then add vanilla with icing sugar mix gently.
- Then add salt flour and raisens until mixed evenly.
- Place mixture evenly in tin then press down firmly till level, then with a fork drag over mixture then glaze with egg..
- Place in middle shelf of oven and bake for around 30 /40 mins.
- When removed from oven sprinkle with sugar then score with a knife and slice while still warm.
- Enjoy !!!!☺.
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