Recipe: Perfect Traditional Shortbread

Traditional Shortbread.

You can have Traditional Shortbread using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Traditional Shortbread

1. Prepare 25 of p grams of butter, softened.
2. It's 1/2 (1 cup) of icing sugar, sifted.
3. You need 1 2/3 cups of plain flour.
4. You need 1/4 cup of rice flour.

Traditional Shortbread step by step

1. Beat butter and icing sugadin a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffg. Sift in flours, combine well with a wooden spoon..
2. Press dough inti a ball. Knead lightly untik smooth. Pat dough into a 23 cn round, about 1 cm thick, on greased baking tray..
3. Score into fingers or wedges. Pierce with fork. Bake at 140°c for 35-40 minites or until set and browned..
4. Cool on trays for 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack. When almost cool. Cut througg line into pieces (try using a bread knife in a sawing motion for neat pieces). Cool shortbread completely. Store in an airthight container..
5. Note: dough can be rolled out and cut into small rounds or bars, cut with scone or biscuit cutters or pressed into wooden shortbread or butter moulds, as desired. Reduce baking times is cooking smaller pieces..