Shortbread

Name: Shortbread
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 250 g unsalted butter; 250 g plain flour; 125 g corn starch; 100 g caster sugar; 25 g icing sugar; 0 plain flour; 0 rice flour

15m

Serves 12

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Shortbread

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15m

Serves 12

Directions

1Put all ingredients in a stand mixer and mix until it clumps together. Stop immediately, do not overmix.
2Push the dough together with your hands, and divide it in half.
3Sprinkle the surface with plain flour and rice flour, then roll out to approximately 5mm.
4Use a circular cookie cutter to cut the dough into biscuits.
5Arrange the biscuits on a lined baking tray and prick them all over with a fork.
6Bake in a preheated oven at 160°C for 15 minutes. They shouldn’t go brown.
7Remove from the oven and let it cool on a wire rack. Dust with caster sugar.

Ingredients

250 g unsalted butter
250 g plain flour
125 g corn starch
100 g caster sugar
25 g icing sugar
0 plain flour
0 rice flour

Equipment

stand mixercookie cutterbaking traywire rackfork

Shortbread

15m

Serves 12

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Shortbread

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15m

Serves 12

Directions

1Put all ingredients in a stand mixer and mix until it clumps together. Stop immediately, do not overmix.
2Push the dough together with your hands, and divide it in half.
3Sprinkle the surface with plain flour and rice flour, then roll out to approximately 5mm.
4Use a circular cookie cutter to cut the dough into biscuits.
5Arrange the biscuits on a lined baking tray and prick them all over with a fork.
6Bake in a preheated oven at 160°C for 15 minutes. They shouldn’t go brown.
7Remove from the oven and let it cool on a wire rack. Dust with caster sugar.