Scottish Shortbread
Hello everyone, I thought I would share a traditional baking recipe for Scottish Shortbread. I love baking but used to spend most of my time either making bigger cakes or desserts like cheesecakes and banoffee pie. I've been spending a bit more time recently developing some biscuit and cookie recipes. As I'm Scottish i thought I would take the time to share a traditional Scottish Shortbread recipe.
You can also use a cookie cutter of your choice to stamp out shapes from the shortbread dough and cook them as individual biscuits. Extras like chocolate chips or lemon zest can also be added to the dough when you in the other dry ingredients.
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Made with only a few simple ingredients try out my traditional baking recipe for Scottish Shortbread
- 200 g plain flour
- 2 tbsp ground rice
- 170 g butter
- 100 g caster sugar
- 2 tsp water
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
Preheat the oven to 150 oC and grease a 6" traybake tin
Cream together the butter and caster sugar until smooth, about 3 minutes
Add the water, granulated sugar, flour and ground rice
Mix until it clumps together into a ball
Press into the traybake tin and score the top into 12 fingers
Prick the top of each shortbread finger with a fork
Bake in the oven for 30 minutes
Sprinkle with caster sugar, allow to cool and then snap into individual shortbread fingers