These Scottish shortbread cookies use the Holy Trinity of pastry: butter, flour, and sugar! They are deliciously buttery and very brittle; it’s very difficult not to get back to them… Considering the ingredients, there are many easy shortbread cookie recipes on the web, so I mixed up several sources, opting to add cornstarch and butter with salt crystals: you’ll get small, crunchy grains of salt in this, with a melting, crumbly texture… Once you crunch into these shortbread cookies, you know you won’t buy industrial biscuits anymore. It is really too simple to have fun!
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Ingredients list for the shortbread cookies recipe
For a dozen cookies:
- 4 1/2 ounces (125g) of salted butter (or salt crystals if you’re an addict like me)
- A bit more than 1 cup (110g) of flour
- 1/3 cup (55g) cornstarch
- 5 tbsp (60g) soft brown sugar (plus a tablespoon to finalize)
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Directions
Contrary to many shortbread cookie recipes, we will use a cake pan to shape these sticks.
1. Whisk the sugar and butter at room temperature until they get a smooth and creamy texture, add the cornflour, and beat until absorbed.
2. Add the flour and knead by hand until you get a ball of dough. Don’t overdo it, because the best shortbread cookies offer a raw, crumbly texture. Over-kneading would make the grain way too thin and tight.
3. Place a sheet of parchment paper in the bottom of a rectangular cake pan, spread your dough on a work surface to the extent of the mold, and put the dough in the pan. Pack the dough well with a glass, prick it with a fork, then cut into sticks.
4. Bake for about 20 min at 300°f (150°c), the dough should be very lightly browned on the edges.
5. Remove the pan, sprinkle with sugar, let stand a few minutes, redraw cookies. Gently fluttering on, taking care because these cookies are very crumbly. Let it cool and enjoy. These easy shortbread cookies will retain for several days in a tin (I couldn’t ever verify this fact!)
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Alma Malagon
2020-11-03 12:37:40
These are amazing! Thank you so much! Perfect texture. Just had a hard time spreading evenly what size pan did you use or where is your cute pan from?
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