After reading the reviews, I decided to go ahead with the Scottish Shortbread recipe from this source. In the beginning, I could not believe that making basic shortbread would only need three ingredients for the dough. Since I had the entire required ingredients ready in my kitchen, I gave this recipe a shot. However, I only made 1/3 of the stated ingredients from the original recipe to test this recipe and added a bit of milk powder and vanilla extract to the dough.
Here's my shortbread recipe version.
My first trial of Scottish Shortbread.
Scottish Shortbread
Ingredients:
- 150gr Unsalted butter, in room temperature
- 70gr Brown sugar (some people say, this is irreplaceable with white sugar)
- 200gr Flour
- 1 tbsp Milk powder
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla powder/extract
Tutorials:
- Cream butter, vanilla powder/extract and sugar by using electric mixer.
- Add 150gr of flour and milk powder to the mixture. Mix well by using rubber spatula.
- Sprinkle kneading board with the remaining flour. Knead the dough for 5 minutes with the remaining flour until it forms soft dough. Make a ball from the dough and cover it with plastic wrap. Refrigerate the dough for 1 hour or overnight.
- Roll the dough to 1/2 inch thickness and cut them into 3x1 inch strips. Prick the cut shortbread dough with fork and place them on a pan already lined with ungreased parchment paper.
- Sprinkle the shortbread with a little bit of brown sugar before baking (optional).
- Bake the shortbread in a preheated oven (at 150 degree Celcius) for 20-25 minutes.
My husband and I think that the shortbread I baked tasted more like plain butter cookies but they had really crumbly, almost melt-in-mouth, texture when eaten. My mistake in my first trial here was probably the final presentation of the shortbread I made. I should have rolled the shortbread dough a bit thicker so my shortbread would look more like shortbread fingers than square butter cookies.
** Get the printable version of this recipe HERE.
** Get the printable version of this recipe HERE.
yuuuuuuuuum!! Shortbread reminds me of my nan, never thought of making it myself
ReplyDeleteI love shortbread. Recently received a huge shortbread cookie and recipe from my friends in Poitiers France and loved it.
ReplyDeleteDelicious shortbread cookies. Thanks for the recipe.
ReplyDeleteNever tried to bake shortbread but I might try this. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the recipe! I always wanted to try and make these but was afraid too!
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