Easiest Way to Make Ultimate Shortbread Cookies

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, shortbread cookies. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Shortbread Cookies is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Shortbread Cookies is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook shortbread cookies using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Shortbread Cookies:

1. Prepare 120 grams Unsalted butter
2. Prepare 80 grams Granulated sugar (or powdered sugar)
3. Take 200 grams Cake flour
4. Get 1 tbsp ☆ Milk (or water)
5. Prepare 1/4 tsp ☆Vanilla essence
6. Prepare For the coating (optional)
7. Take 1 Granulated sugar
8. Make ready 1 Water

Instructions to make Shortbread Cookies:

1. Preparations: Bring the butter to room temperature. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 180° (350°F).
2. Put the butter in a bowl and knead with a fork. Once softened, beat with an electric mixer until creamy.
3. Add the granulated sugar to Step 2 and mix well with an electric mixer. Add ☆ and cream well.
4. Sprinkle the cake flour into Step 3 and fold well with a rubber spatula It's okay if it there are some flour streaks.
5. Put Step 4 into a large Ziploc bag (about 27 cm wide) and form into a log. Let chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour until hardened.
6. Sprinkle the dough from Step 5 lightly with water and roll with sugar in a shallow pan to coat the surface. If it's a bit of a pain, you can just scatter the sugar on top.
7. Slice the dough from Step 6 into 8 mm thick slices. Arrange on the baking sheet with some space between each and bake in an oven for 15 minutes. That was easy, wasn't it?
8. Once baked, let cool. They're crispy and delicious! Bake until they look like the ones shown in the picture.
9. You can use a microwave to soften the butter in Step 2, but be sure not to let it melt to a liquid!! (I heat it at 900 W for about 15 seconds).
10. These cookies were prepared as written in Step 6. The edges are well-coated in sugar.
11. These are with dried raspberries! This is what they look like before baking, but they were delicious!
12. I tried baking them in a different shape! They're quite bigger than the round type!

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