Easy Family Shortbread Cookies

Made from simple ingredients, but very tasty! For the whole family. These classic shortbread cookies are so easy to bake; even a child can do it. So you can safely involve your little helpers in working with the test.
cook time: 1h
Hazel Farrow
Easy Family Shortbread Cookies

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

472
Calories
26g
Fat
48g
Carbs
7g
Protein

Ingredients (6 portions)

Basic:

Salt 0.5 g
Sugar 120 g
Wheat flour 450 g
Butter 250 g
Vanillin 0.5 g
Egg yolks 3 pc
Baking powder 1 tsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make classic shortbread cookies? Prepare all the necessary ingredients for this. The butter should be soft, so take it out of the refrigerator in advance and let it sit at room temperature for a couple of hours. Separate the yolks from the whites. I use C1 eggs. Sift the flour through a sieve to saturate it with oxygen. This is necessary so that the finished products are as tender and fluffy as possible.

Step 2

Step 2
To prepare shortcrust pastry, take a convenient bowl and combine soft butter and sugar in it. Beat for 1-2 minutes until the butter becomes a little fluffier and lighter in color. There is no need to replace butter with margarine. Products made from margarine are tougher.

Step 3

Step 3
Add egg yolks to the butter. Mix them into the dough. For this, too, you can use a mixer. If you add whole eggs to the dough instead of yolks, the cookies will not be as crumbly as only those made with yolks.

Step 4

Step 4
Then add baking powder, a pinch of salt and vanilla. Start gradually adding flour and kneading the dough. There is no need to add all the flour at once. You may need a little more or less. Focus on the consistency of the dough.

Step 5

Step 5
The finished dough will be soft and not sticky to your hands at all. Wrap the dough in cling film and let it rest for about 30 minutes.

Step 6

Step 6
Roll out the finished dough to a thickness of 5-7 mm and cut out cookies of any shape from it. Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and place in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 15 minutes. Use your oven as a guide. The cookies are prepared very quickly.

Step 7

Step 7
Do not overcook it in the oven, otherwise it will burn. Remove the finished sugar cookies, golden in color, from the oven and cool.

Step 8

Step 8
You can sprinkle the cookies with powdered sugar.

Step 9

Step 9
It turns out very tasty and crumbly sugar cookies. Enjoy your meal!

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