Shortbread cookies
A classic shortbread recipe
Prep Time 30 minutes mins
Total Time 1 hour hr 30 minutes mins
Course Snack
Cuisine European
- 250 gr. flour
- 1 tbsp. baking powder
- 100 gr. sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 egg yolk (or a whole egg)
- 1 tbsp. lemon juice
- 1 pkt. vanilla sugar
- 125 gr. butter
- milk or rum as needed
If you are on a vegan diet or want to bake for someone who avoids animal products, substitute margarine for the butter and applesauce for the egg.
Mix the flour with the baking powder and put it on a board or in the mixing bowl. Add sugar, pinch of salt, egg yolk, lemon juice and vanilla sugar in a pit on top, crumble the butter on the edge of the flour, chop all the ingredients with pastry knife.
Then, with cold hands or the dough hook of a food processor, quickly work from the outside to the inside until a smooth dough. Shape into a ball and let rest in the refrigerator covered with parchment paper for at least ½ hour before processing.
Bake at 190-200 degrees for 15-30 minutes depending on the size of the pastry.
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