3 Ingredients Shortbread Cookies. I LOVE shortbread…and I have a feeling if you're reading this, so do you! The buttery, sweet cookie is one of my all How to Make The Best Shortbread Cookies. For winter, especially Christmas, you don't have to buy these salty and sweet Scottish traditional cookies anymore.
You can cook 3 Ingredients Shortbread Cookies using 3 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of 3 Ingredients Shortbread Cookies
- Prepare 500 gr of salted butter (at room temperature) (use good butter).
- It’s 180-200 gr of powdered/icing sugar (I use 180gr).
- You need 600 gr of plain/all-purpose flour.
What is the difference between a sugar cookie and a shortbread cookie recipe? Shortbreads have a soft and crumbly texture because of the large quantity of butter whereas sugar cookie are firm, soft and. Filled with Dulce De Leche for a sweet Latino twist, these I am not one for baking cookies and cakes. Classic shortbread cookies recipe uses only three ingredients: salted butter, powdered sugar and flour.
3 Ingredients Shortbread Cookies instructions
Beat butter in a big bowl with hand mixer until pale. Butter must be at room temperature so it's easy to beat..
Add icing sugar into the butter and mix well. You'd need to scrape the side and mix, scrape the side and mix again once or twice more until mixed evenly and turn slightly paler..
Add quarter of the flour and mix again with beater. Then add another quarter and beat again, do that to the rest of the flour..
When the flour finished, the batter should be slightly crumbly..
Preheat oven at 160°C or 150°C fan forced..
Butter a 38x30cm baking pan and lined with baking sheet with overhang. Buttering the pan will help when flattening the dough..
Transfer dough to the baking pan and flatten it with spatula. Then cover with cling wrap and flatten with rolling pin until evenly flat..
Bake for 20 mins until edges are light brown and most of the surface is still pale gold..
Bring the tray out of the oven and working quickly cut into desired shape and prick all over with fork..
Return the tray back into the oven and bake a further 8 mins until the surface is light golden (not brown)..
Turn off the oven, open the door a little and let it cool in the oven for about an hour..
Once an hour is up, bring out the tray, and using the baking paper overhangs take the cookies out from the tray and cool fully on the baking rack..
Keep in an airtight container for 3 days or in freezer for up to 2 months..
If you add a hint of vanilla extract, you'll have the Classic shortbread cookies recipe is super simple and easy to make. The last thing you need during the busy holiday. Shortbread cookies can be decorated any way you desire Easy Cool Whip cookies could be made with Red Velvet or colored green Traditional shortbread recipes only include three ingredients: flour, sugar, and butter. Shortbread sandwich cookies are also popular and can be made by using the three-ingredient shortbread recipe to form cookies that sandwich an ingredient in between them. This is my favourite shortbread cookie, and I always have the ingredients on hand.
