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Shortbread recipe

5 from 1 vote
What’s more Scottish than a delicious piece of shortbread? With only three ingredients, it’s a great, easy treat to make with your kids.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings: 20
Course: Snack
Cuisine: scottish
Calories: 82
Ingredients Method Video

Ingredients
  

  • 175 g plain/all-purpose flour
  • 75 g caster sugar
  • 100 g butter softened
  • Demerara sugar for sprinkling

Method
 

Pre-heat the oven to 160C/140C Fan and lightly grease 2 baking trays.
    Mix the ingredients together
    1. Weigh the flour, sugar and butter and pop them all in a large mixing bowl. Using your finger tips rub everything together gently until you have a fine breadcrumb.
    Make the shortbread
    1. Knead the mixture gently to bring it all together in a ball of dough. We had to do this for a while to stop the mixture crumbling apart when we tried to roll it out.
    2. Lightly sprinkle some flour down on your work surface
    3. Roll your dough out until it is around 5mm (1/4 inch) thick. Using a 5cm fluted cutter, cut circles out and place them on your baking tray.
    4. Prick each biscuit with a fork and sprinkle them with a little Demerara sugar.
    Bake the Scottish shortbread
    1. Pop the baking trays in the oven for 15-20 minutes. They’re ready when they are starting to turn golden brown. Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.

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