How To Make Shortbread

Shortbread is a very sweet and perfect snack for a quick lunch and also for entertainment of guests, I like to relax with a plateful of shortbread and a cold juice when I’m not working. Traditionally, you need three Ingredients to make shortbread but I like to add milk to make more creamy and tasty.

Here are the ingredients and the step by step process of making sweet shortbread.

 

INGREDIENTS FOR HOMEMADE SHORTBREAD COOKIES
You only need 4 ingredients for homemade shortbread cookies:
1. Butter
2. Sugar
3. Flour.

4. Milk
For 1kg flour you'll need 250g of Butter and 200g sugar.
If you choose to use salted butter instead, omit the salt and that will be 3 ingredients!

Directions

Step 1: Put room temperature butter and sugar in a bowl.

Step 2: Cream together until well incorporated.
Creaming butter and sugar for shortbread cookies.
Step 3: Sieve in your flour. Then add a pinch of salt.

Step 4: Mix together. The mixture will be slightly tough. Just try to get everything together.

Step 5: Now mold into a ball.
Step 6: Wrap dough in a plastic wrap and try to form it into a rectangle as much as you can. It should be about half an inch thick.

Step 7: Now place the dough in a fridge and let it cool for about 30 minutes. You need to do this so you can shape your cookies properly. Take it out and roll out to about a quarter inch thick. Leave the plastic wrap on while doing this.

Step 8: Take off the plastic wrap and trim the edges to form a rectangle… or something in the form of a rectangle. Ha. Cut out into little rectangles – about 2-4 inches long. If you have a cookie cutter, you could just use it to cut to desired shapes.

Cut out homemade shortbread cookies
Join together your trimmed edges to form a ball, roll it out and cut out more cookies. Note that if your dough starts feeling melty (butter will melt fast if the atmosphere is warm), put it in the fridge to harden for a few minutes then you take it out and continue.
You can also place the cookies in the fridge for about 10 minutes before baking if they feel too soft.
Step 9: Place your cuts your prepared baking tray. Use a fork to poke each piece a couple of times

Step 10: Now bake in the oven for about 10 minutes or until light brown in color.

Note that your shortbread cookies will be slightly soft once they come out of the oven. But that’s okay. They will firm up as they cool down.
Avoid moving them around while they are very hot so you don’t break them.
Shortbread cookies on plate and platter served with milk
Allow to cool down and then enjoy your perfectly homemade shortbread.

If you made this shortbread give a feedback on how It went for you, feel free to ask questions in the comment box.