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Traditional Scottish Shortbread Recipe Perfectly crumbly, irresistibly buttery and wonderfully delicious, Scottish Shortbread has been a year-round favorite That is what flavors the shortbread and the shortbread is only as good as the butter. No one knows how to make the absolute best shortbread quite like the Scottish. To make this shortbread recipe, you can break out your hand or stand mixer to make quick work of the prep.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook best ever scottish shortbread using 3 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Best ever Scottish shortbread:
- Take 12 oz Plain flour
- Get 8 oz Slightly salted butter
- Make ready 4 oz Caster sugar
Step-by-step, Steph walks you through her Scottish Shortbread recipe, passed down from her dear friend, Helen Bradley. Scottish shortbread was ALWAYS on the list of "to bake cookies." Along with chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, spritzer cookies, no-bake cookies…you get the idea It's full of light, flaky layers that are perfect with tea or milk. (seriously, it's the world's best homemade cookies recipe ever!) This Scottish shortbread recipe is simple and delicious. If you're having the family over for afternoon tea, this biscuit recipe is perfect. This classic shortbread recipe shows you just how easy it is to make Scottish shortbread at home.
Steps to make Best ever Scottish shortbread:
- Line a baking tray with parchment and turn the oven on to gas mark 3 low.
- Add the plain flour and chopped butter to a large mixing bowl. 1. Rub the butter into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. 1. Add the caster sugar and carry on rubbing in until thoroughly dispersed in the mixture.
- When the mixture starts to stick together, knead until it forms a nice pliable dough.
- Knead into a square block.
- Shape into a square slab on a chopping board.
- If following my quantities as listed above, cut the slab into four, but if doubling the ingredients enough to make 64 biscuits shape into a rectangle and cut into eight pieces as shown in the picture here.
- Take each piece in turn and roll into a sausage shape.
- Cut with a sharp knife into eight circles.
- Place each biscuit carefully onto the baking tray spaced to allow for spreading during cooking. Prick each biscuit three times with a fork.
- Place on the middle shelf of the oven on a low setting and cook the biscuits for about 35 to 40 minutes. Do not let them get too dark in color, they should be a very pale color when done.
- Take out of the oven and leave to cool down a bit before taking them off the tray as they will be too soft and break.
- Cool them on a wire rack.
- When cooled dip each shortbread biscuit into a bowl of caster sugar and shake off the excess sugar.
- These biscuits store well in a tin.
- Enjoy!
This seriously has to be the best traditional scottish shortbread cookies recipe ever. It's full of light, flaky layers that are perfect with tea or milk. Last year, my family and I got to visit Scotland - I absolutely loved it there! Glasgow was one of the friendliest cities I've ever been in and Edinburgh was a beautiful city with We visited some friends in Edinburgh and she made the best shortbread I have ever eaten! By: The Canadian Living Test Kitchen.
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