Butter Shortbread Biscuits – Supernaturally delicious

As the saying goes; “the best things come in threes”. This is especially true when it comes to food. With a trio of ingredients, you can unveil some of the butteriest and tastiest shortbread that you could ever have imagined. Butter Shortbread Biscuits are here to take your next tea-time to the next level.

The only three ingredients are butter, sugar and flour and you’d be surprised at how great this combination is. You can even go creative and use different cookie cutters. Add some colour and flavour with chocolate, icing, jam or sprinkles and turn them into the hero of your party table. These Butter Shortbread Biscuits are rich, crumbly and melt in your mouth. Perfect for High Tea, kids and adult parties, these biscuits will make anybody happy.

Perfect for your next tea party or your midnight witching-hour snack, Butter Shortbread Biscuits are so good, they taste supernatural.

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Butter Shortbread Biscuits Recipe

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Recipe by Lichelle Hawthorne Course: SnackCuisine: GlobalDifficulty: Easy

Prep time

5

minutes

Baking Time

20

minutes

Total time

25

minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cups All-purpose or cake flour

• ½ cup Powdered Sugar

• 1 cup butter or salted butter (room temperature)

Method

• Preheat your oven to 180°C and line a 23 cm square baking pan with parchment paper.
• In a bowl cream together the soft butter and sugar with an electric mixer until fluffy. A fork will also work if you do not have a mixer.
• Add the flour and mix until the dough just comes together.
• Press the dough into the lined pan and prick the dough with a fork.
• Bake for 16 – 20 minutes or until slightly golden.
• While still warm, cut into squares or rectangles. Leave the shortbread until completely cooled. If desired dust with powdered sugar.

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