Sunday, December 18, 2011

RECIPE: Scottish Shortbread Cookies

Count my family among the obsessed when it comes to shortbread cookies- (and desserts altogether). I have to admit, that the holiday season with its plethora of articles dedicated to holiday cookies kind of inspired me to bake! I've always enjoyed cooking new recipes, but as far as desserts went- I only had my go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe to rely on! During the past month, I tried making a chocolate cookie with white chocolate chips (not as successfully as I had hoped!) and a shortbread cookie (which was delicious!). I scoured websites searching for a recipe that would best mimic the Walkers brand of Shortbread, and I may have come close!

Some recipes suggested using confectioners sugar (beneficial for its corn starch proportion), while others suggested granulated white sugar. I read that the latter would heed a better cookie texture, so I went with the white sugar!

Some recipes also suggested adding vanilla. I think you could easily skip this and still end up with a delicious cookie.

Here is the recipe I followed.

2 ½ cup all purpose flour
¼ tspn salt
1 ¼ cup of butter
½ tspn vanilla
½ cup and 1 tbspn of white sugar

Yields about 60-70 small cookies

You'll want to use a hand blender to combine all the ingredients. Once it is mixed, if it is flaky like mine was- you'll want to use your hands to squish the dough into a few manageable balls.

Once divided, you will want to put each individual one in saran wrap and press down to flatten it. Refrigerate for a 1+ hours, or overnight.

Once you pull the dough out of the refrigerator, let it warm up to room temperature. Once it is ready, you'll want to roll out the dough to about half a cm in thickness!


 Next, you get your cookie cutters out and go wild!




And here is the finished product!


Enjoy!

4 comments:

  1. those look delicious, nooreen! :)

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  2. Thanks Jess! They really were! Do you like shortbread cookies? If you do, I should make you some!

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  3. Hey Nooreen! Great blog! And those cookies look delish!

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  4. Hi Kajani! Thanks!! Hope you continue to enjoy it :-D

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