Shortbread

15 mins
Serves 12
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Directions

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