Scottish Shortbread

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Servings: 4 Difficulty: Advanced
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Scottish-style sweet and satisfying dessert that brings home-style flavor to your table
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This Scottish dessert features Best unsalted butter, Superfine sugar, All-purpose flour. It delivers smooth, comforting richness, sweet, indulgent flavor. A wonderful way to end any meal, especially on special occasions. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.

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Scottish Shortbread

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Difficulty: Advanced
Servings: 4 Calories: 1069.0

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This Scottish dessert features Best unsalted butter, Superfine sugar, All-purpose flour. It delivers smooth, comforting richness, sweet, indulgent flavor. A wonderful way to end any meal, especially on special occasions. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
  2. Place butter in mixer and beat with paddle until soft and light.
  3. Beat in sugar in a stream and continue beating 5 to 10 minutes until the mixture is very light and whitened.
  4. Stir in the flour by hand until it absorbed, no more or the dough will toughen.
  5. Scrape the dough onto a floured surface and flour the dough with pinches of flour.
  6. Press the dough out with your hands, then
  7. roll over once or twice very gently with a rolling pin until the dough is about 1/2-inch thick.
  8. Cut the dough with floured cutters and transfer the cut pieces to a paper lined pan.
  9. Bake the shortbread for about 15 minutes until it is very lightly colored.
  10. Cool the shortbread on a rack.
  11. To use a shortbread mold to shape, press the mold into the floured dough and cut around it.
  12. Transfer the cut and molded dough to a paper lined pan and chill about 1 hour until firm.
  13. Bake as above

Nutrition Facts

Servings 4

Amount Per Serving
Calories 1069.0kcal
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 47.5g74%
Saturated Fat 29.2g146%
Cholesterol 122.0mg41%
Sodium 4.4mg1%
Total Carbohydrate 144.1g49%
Dietary Fiber 4.1g17%
Sugars 30.5g
Protein 15.5g31%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

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