Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, best ever scottish shortbread. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
This is the best shortbread recipe I have ever tried. I use high quality butter and pulse my sugar so it's fine as. Scottish Shortbread when well made is a great example of simple perfection. In this video I will show you how to make the best Scottish Shortbread.
Best ever Scottish shortbread is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Best ever Scottish shortbread is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook best ever scottish shortbread using 3 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Best ever Scottish shortbread:
- Prepare 12 oz Plain flour
- Get 8 oz Slightly salted butter
- Take 4 oz Caster sugar
These shortbreads are full of sweet, buttery flavour. Remove the shortbread from the tins and cut into petticoat tails, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool. Dust with caster sugar before serving. Scottish shortbread is a biscuit to really sink your teeth into.
Instructions to make Best ever Scottish shortbread:
- Line a baking tray with parchment and turn the oven on to gas mark 3 low.
- Add the plain flour and chopped butter to a large mixing bowl.
- Rub the butter into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Add the caster sugar and carry on rubbing in until thoroughly dispersed in the mixture.
- When the mixture starts to stick together, knead until it forms a nice pliable dough.
- Knead into a square block.
- Shape into a square slab on a chopping board.
- If following my quantities as listed above, cut the slab into four, but if doubling the ingredients enough to make 64 biscuits shape into a rectangle and cut into eight pieces as shown in the picture here.
- Take each piece in turn and roll into a sausage shape.
- Cut with a sharp knife into eight circles.
- Place each biscuit carefully onto the baking tray spaced to allow for spreading during cooking. Prick each biscuit three times with a fork.
- Place on the middle shelf of the oven on a low setting and cook the biscuits for about 35 to 40 minutes. Do not let them get too dark in color, they should be a very pale color when done.
- Take out of the oven and leave to cool down a bit before taking them off the tray as they will be too soft and break.
- Cool them on a wire rack.
- When cooled dip each shortbread biscuit into a bowl of caster sugar and shake off the excess sugar.
- These biscuits store well in a tin.
- Enjoy!
Dust with caster sugar before serving. Scottish shortbread is a biscuit to really sink your teeth into. Try making these easy, buttery shortbread biscuits for an afternoon activity with the kids. This recipe also works as homemade Christmas presents, with chocolate chips or orange zest added the dough. Scottish shortbread is a decadent biscuit made with flour, sugar, and a generous amount of butter giving it a crunchy, crumbly texture with a melt-in-the-mouth feel.
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