Shortbread
Shortbread is a recipe featuring fresh ingredients from the cookies category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 125 g butter
- 60 g sugar
- 1 Tbsp vanilla sugar
- 200 g Flour
- a pinch of salt
- 2 tsp Baking powder
- flour (for dusting the work surface)
Instructions
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1.
Preheat the oven to 160°C fan. Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
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2.
Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla sugar together until fluffy.
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3.
Sift the flour with a pinch of salt and baking powder into a bowl and mix.
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4.
Fold half of the flour mixture into the butter-sugar mixture, then knead in the remaining flour until a dough forms.
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5.
Roll out the dough on a floured surface to about 4 mm thickness. Cut out shapes with cookie cutters and decorate with a fork and smaller cutters.
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6.
Place the cutouts onto the tray and bake for approximately 10 minutes. Let cool before carefully lifting them off the tray. Store the shortbread in airtight containers.
