Scottish Shortbread
Serves: 6
Cierra Adams
1 January 1970
Based on User reviews:
51
Spice
53
Sweetness
40
Sourness
40
mins
Prep time (avg)
4.8
Difficulty
Ingredients:
Directions:
1
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees
2
Place butter in mixer and beat with paddle until soft and light
3
Beat in sugar in a stream and continue beating 5 to 10 minutes until the mixture is very light and whitened
4
Stir in the flour by hand until it absorbed, no more or the dough will toughen
5
Scrape the dough onto a floured surface and flour the dough with pinches of flour
6
Press the dough out with your hands, then roll over once or twice very gently with a rolling pin until the dough is about 1/2-inch thick
7
Cut the dough with floured cutters and transfer the cut pieces to a paper lined pan
8
Bake the shortbread for about 15 minutes until it is very lightly colored
9
Cool the shortbread on a rack
10
To use a shortbread mold to shape, press the mold into the floured dough and cut around it
11
Transfer the cut and molded dough to a paper lined pan and chill about 1 hour until firm
12
Bake as above