shortbread recipe

sammiboo

Only Just spotted this but I only just found my recipe earlier:

110g Butter
50g Caster Sugar
175g Plain Flour

Preheat oven Gas Mark 2 / 150C
Grease Baking Tray
Beat Butter with wooden Spoon until soft, then beat sugar, then flour
Bring mix together with spoon and finish with hands to form a paste
Transfer to board (dusted with caster sugar) and roll out.
Cut to size
Bake for 30 mins

* rather than cut them i just ball them up and flatten with my hands for a chunkier biscuit

This is really is to do - I have an urge to make some more now

AussieLass

Trishh wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Well I've taken a batch of shortbread cookies out of the oven .... made Christmas Tree shapes :j

I used Sandy's recipe as I hadn't tried one with cornflour in it, before. They're gorgeous!
I'll have a go at Loobys recipe for the next batch. Thanks again to both
of you :beer:

They look lovely. How many tree's did this recipe make?

Ianna

odds-n-sods wrote: »

A repost of the OP!

"Apologies for the spacing ... this pc seems not to like it! Hope it's still readable!

Hello all - As mentioned on another thread, I'm making jams and shortbreads this year to put in Christmas hampers. Another MSE-er asked for the recipe and thought would share.
It's a Women's Institute recipe and it's melt in the mouth!

225g (8oz) softened butter
115g (4oz) icing sugar
225g (8oz) plain flour (although all I had was self raising and this worked great too)
115g (4oz) cornflour
caster sugar to dredge

Cream butter and sugar, then blend in flour and cornflour. Grease a swiss roll tin and press mixture in firmly. Bake at 150 degrees c (fan oven) for 40-50 mins until golden in colour. Leave to cool in the tray for 10 mins and dredge with caster sugar. Cut into fingers and put on wire rack to cool totally.

Enjoy! xx"

These are simply gorgeous and really easy to make. Thanks so much for this!!! :T

Bettyboop

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a recipe to make shortbread. The internet has 1000's but from past experience everything I cook from the internet never turns out and I mean they don't. For example I tried a fudge recipe over the weekend and ended up with a runny pudding!

Will be great if you could share yours.

Thanks.

Pink.

Hi Bettyboop,

There's an older thread with lots of tried and tested recipes on it that should help so I've added your thread to it to keep all the recipes together.

Pink

redmel1621

Hi I am in a baking mode at the moment in the process of making jam tarts, mince pies and shortbread...however is what i need to know is - Should the butter be melted or room temperature...Mine has just come out of the fridge and I can't see it being beat just yet, it is like a brick.

Thanks
Mel x

pawpurrs

room temp. yum shortbread

stilernin

Dampen a tea towel with a few table spoons of water, and fold in to eighths and put in the microwave for a min or two to heat up.

Cut butter into small cubes and put in your mixing bowl.

When the tea towel comes out of the microwave... careful!! it's hot..... put it on the work surface and place the mixing bowl on top of it. Now begin to beat the butter.

The heat helps it soften without it melting.

Always works for me


EDIT.... just spotted that you want to make shortbread, pastry etc... the tea towel trick is really for when you want to beat the butter for a cake. Cutting into small cubes will help it get to room temp quicker though.

CRANKY40

I used mine straight from the fridge earlier for shortbread. As Stilenin says I just cut it into cubes once it's in the bowl to make it easier to rub it in.

redmel1621

Thank you all

Didn't say thanks before because I rushed off to make them.

Mmmmmmmmmmm they are lovely

Mel x