Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, shortbread. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
It was a beautiful golden color and not too sweet-real shortbread. I wrapped the circle in red cellophane paper and gave it away as a Christmas gift. Four stars only because the dough was slightly dry nothing that I couldn't fix by adding some more butter.
Shortbread is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Shortbread is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook shortbread using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Shortbread:
- Get For shortbread:
- Prepare 125 g Butter
- Take 55 g Caster Sugar
- Take 180 g Plain Flour
- Prepare To top:
- Get 1 tsp Caster Sugar
Vary the flavor of your shortbread with the following simple additions. Shortbread is a traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three parts plain wheat flour. Other ingredients like ground rice or cornflour are sometimes added to alter the texture. Modern recipes also often deviate from the original by splitting the sugar into equal parts granulated and icing sugar and many add a portion of salt.
Instructions to make Shortbread:
- Preheat the oven to 170°C
- Cream together 55g of caster sugar and the butter
1. Stir in the flour until it resembles a ball
1. Using a rolling pin to roll out the paste until 1cm thick, roll on baking paper to avoid it sticking to the surface and flour your rolling pin to prevent sticking - Using a knife cut the paste into rectangles
- Using the offcuts repeat steps 4 and 5 until you have no paste left
- Transfer the rectangles to a baking tray and space out
- Prick them with a fork and sprinkle with a the tsp of caster, then transfer to the fridge for 20 minutes to cool
- After removing from the fridge, place in the preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes, then leave to cool on a wire rack before enjoying
Vanilla Bean Shortbread: Split a vanilla bean in half lengthwise and use the back of a knife to scrape out the pulp. Bake Ina Garten's chocolate-dipped Shortbread Cookies for the perfect bite with tea, from Barefoot Contessa on Food Network. Sift together flour and salt in a small bowl. The shortbread can be shaped before or after cooking, and most traditional recipes call for discs, squares, petticoat tails (triangular pizza-shaped slices made out of a big circle), or thick rectangular fingers. Pat the shortbread into the pan and cut after baking or roll it and cut the dough in the preferred shape.
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