Shortbread Cookie Recipe

by Diana
(Charlotte, N.C)

I love to bake with my two children, they are aged 5 and 7 years and love spending time together, making a mess and creating some special treats to share with other family members and friends.

We enjoy baking this Shortbread Cookie Recipe as we can change it everytime we make them if we feel like it, some times we make caramel shortbread cookies, vanilla or strawberry shortbreads.


Here is our shortbread cookie recipe

you will need the ingredients below to make 12 to 18 cookies.

100g All Purpose Flour

50g Rice Flour

100g Butter

50g Superfine Sugar

Coating : Dusting of Rice Flour

Sift the flour and rice flour into a bowl. Cut the butter into small pieces and rub into the flour mixture with the tips of your fingers.

Add the sugar and knead very well until the mixture binds together.

Lightly grease a baking sheet and dust your cookie cutter with a little rice flour.

We use different shaped cookie cutters, sometimes cars, animals, flowers and shapes.

Press the shortbread into a round and cut your cookies out until all the cookie dough has been used up.

Bake in the center of a cool to moderate oven (150-160C/300-325F/Gas 2-3) for 30 minutes or until firm to the touch.

Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet.

To make the caramel variation I buy some ready made caramel sauce from my local store and let the kids sprad some over their cookies when they have cooled, we also melt some chocolate and pour this over the top allowing the chocolate to cool before we eat them...these are extra special