Recipe Ingredients
7oz of all-purpose flour 2 cups
4oz of room temperature butter
or soft margarine,
2oz of superfine sugar
Preparation & Shortbread cooking instructions
Beat together the sugar and the butter/margarine. Next add
the flour and slowly mix all together. Now roll out the mixture,
to about two eighths of an inch thick making sure you have
lightly dusted your surface and rolling pin with superfine
sugar first, or the mixture may stick, then cut out the biscuits
with a cookie cutter; and arrange your shortbread on a baking
sheet.
Before putting in the oven, sprinkle the shortbread with
some superfine sugar and then bake for approximately 35 minutes
at 300°F (150°C). or until a light golden color.
Alternatively you can press the shortbread mixture into a
round shallow tin, mark into wedge shaped pieces and bake
as above although a little more baking time may be required.
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