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 have Buttery Shortbread using 3 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Buttery Shortbread
- It's 75 grams of butter (2/3 cup).
- It's 50 grams of golden granulated sugar (1/2 cup).
- It's 100 grams of plain flour (7/8 cup).
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 instructions
- 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!.
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.