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Home » BACHELOR COOKING » Shortbread cookies recipe | How to make shortbread cookies

Shortbread cookies recipe | How to make shortbread cookies

March 31, 2014 by Raks Anand 46 Comments /

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I have tried baking shortbread cookies when I started experimenting baking. But it didn’t turn out good. It did, but due to my confusion I over baked the cookies and spoiled it. Then after that I had no heart to try as it has lots of butter. Now I got confidence to try again and tried last week as Aj wanted something for snack and he wanted me to bake some cookies. Mainly he wanted to enter kitchen helping me, so since its holidays for him I thought let me involve him to keep him engaged. So I referred Martha Stewarts recipe and tried this time. It came out good and even Vj loved it. So why not bake these cookies and pack your kids snack box with homemade butter cookies?
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Shortbread cookies recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Continental  |  Recipe Category: Snack
Prep Time: 1 hr 30mins    |  Cook time: 15 mins    |  Makes: 30 

Ingredients

All purpose flour/ Maida – 1 cup


Powdered sugar – 1/4 cup


Unsalted butter – 1/2 cup


Salt – 1/4 tsp


Vanilla essence – 1/2 tsp


Method

  1. First bring butter to room temperature to soften it. Do not melt. beat with a whisk until fluffy (3 minutes). I used my hand blender with whisk attachment but you can use you hands. Make sure you beat well. Add powdered sugar, vanilla and again beat fluffy.
  2. Shortbread cookies recipe step 1

  3. Mix flour and salt well and add it to the beaten butter sugar mixture. Make dough. If your dough is too sticky and doesn’t hold a shape, add 1 or 2 more tblps of flour until you are able to form a soft non-sticky dough. Mine turned gooey, so I had to add few more tblsp of flour. Nothing went wrong, so you can do that if needed.
  4. Shortbread cookies recipe step 2

  5. Flatten to disc and wrap with a cling wrap. Keep refrigerated for atleast an hour.
  6. Shortbread cookies recipe step 3

  7. Line baking tray with baking sheets. Roll out the dough using rolling pin for 1/4 inch thickness. (You can use a butter paper over the dough to avoid sticking to the rolling pin, just in case).
  8. Shortbread cookies recipe step 4

  9. Using your favorite shape of cookie cutter, cut out the cookies. Take out the other parts of the dough leaving the cut cookie in its place without disturbing its shape. Re-roll the scraps again and cut out cookies. Use a spatula to take out the cookies.
  10. Shortbread cookies recipe step 5

  11. Arrange carefully in the baking tray. Refrigerate it for 30 minutes before baking. Preheat oven for 160 deg C (or 325 F). Bake for 15- 18 minutes until the sides of the cookies just start to change colour. Cool over wire rack completely before baking.
  12. Shortbread cookies recipe step 6

Notes

    • Refrigerating the dough is very important, give enough time.
    • After cutting out the shapes in the rolled out dough, take out the side row by row for easily taking out the cookies.
    • If while re rolling, its difficult for your to handle, refrigerate the dough again. To avoid this, act quickly. Do not knead much with your hands as it will melt the butter and soften the dough.
    • After the sides start changing its colour, the centre part may still be soft, which you need not worry, it will get firm after it gets cooled down completely.
    • Dot over bake as it will affect the taste.
    • My cookie cutter is too tiny so I got more than mentioned.

Tastes and smells divinely, I love especially after 2-3 days.

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Comments

  1. jeyashri suresh

    March 31, 2014 at 11:13 am

    Beautiful cookies . I always love to eat this. Nice presentation

    Reply
  2. anusha praveen

    March 31, 2014 at 11:47 am

    I love shortbread cookies but i m terrified of the amount of butter that goes in! Looks delish and would be divine to eat them alongside some chilled cocoa

    Reply
  3. Ramya Krishnamurthy

    March 31, 2014 at 11:54 am

    Yummy cookies and this is my all time favorite

    Reply
  4. Veena Theagarajan

    March 31, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    so perfectly done Raks.. too good

    Reply
  5. Revathi

    March 31, 2014 at 12:12 pm

    Looks yummy may I know wat hand blender you use

    Reply
  6. Swarna

    March 31, 2014 at 12:32 pm

    Looks yummy!

    Reply
  7. Priya Suresh

    March 31, 2014 at 12:32 pm

    Very hard to resist to thise buttery cookies, very addictive they are.

    Reply
  8. Rafeeda AR

    March 31, 2014 at 12:34 pm

    These look so addictive…

    Reply
  9. Raks anand

    March 31, 2014 at 3:29 pm

    Bosch

    Reply
  10. Durga Pugazh

    March 31, 2014 at 3:38 pm

    Kindly tell me whether we can replace refined flour by wheat flour…

    Reply
  11. AparnaRajeshkumar

    March 31, 2014 at 3:52 pm

    look so nice….

    Reply
  12. Hari Chandana P

    March 31, 2014 at 3:57 pm

    Beautifully baked cookies.. love them.

    Reply
  13. Raks anand

    April 1, 2014 at 3:42 am

    Yes you can try.

    Reply
  14. Viveka Theeban

    April 1, 2014 at 4:48 am

    how much is 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup flour in gms ?

    Reply
  15. nandoos Kitchen

    April 1, 2014 at 5:55 am

    yummy cookies. Love them..

    Reply
  16. Deesingh

    April 1, 2014 at 10:42 am

    Perfect for school snacks. Thank you

    Reply
  17. bagirathidevi senthilkumar

    April 1, 2014 at 11:08 am

    Shapes r very nice

    Reply
  18. Durga Pugazh

    April 1, 2014 at 11:41 am

    Thank you for the response..

    Reply
  19. Saraswathi Vanga

    April 1, 2014 at 12:21 pm

    Why is the name of the oven u use??

    Reply
  20. Laavanya

    April 1, 2014 at 2:54 pm

    I love these buttery cookies… looks so good with the fun shapes 🙂

    Reply
  21. Sugandhi

    April 1, 2014 at 3:26 pm

    can v do this in convection model oven??

    Reply
  22. Sathya Priya

    April 1, 2014 at 4:17 pm

    oh lovely cookies .Very tempting for me itself then why not kids ?.Guess ur son enjoyed helping u

    Reply
  23. Kavitha Balachandran

    April 1, 2014 at 5:10 pm

    WOW, SUCH NICE COOKIES.IT SMELL HERE.SO TEMPTING.WELL DONE

    Reply
  24. Vanamala Hebbar

    April 1, 2014 at 5:12 pm

    Nice and cute cookies

    Reply
  25. Raks anand

    April 2, 2014 at 4:50 pm

    Panasonic dimensions 4

    Reply
  26. Raks anand

    April 2, 2014 at 4:51 pm

    Yes ofcourse

    Reply
  27. Hobby Sewer

    April 3, 2014 at 3:02 pm

    Thank you Raji. Today I made this with my two sons… Wow..it just melts in the mouth .
    I baked it at 200 deg for 15 mins as this is the minimum temperature setting in my oven

    Reply
  28. SHARMILEE J

    April 9, 2014 at 1:21 am

    Love the bright clicks…melting shortbread cookies, mittus fav anytime

    Reply
  29. priya selva

    August 26, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    Looking nice…..
    V'l try definitely. .

    Reply
  30. Aishu

    June 10, 2015 at 2:09 am

    Will this work without a hand blender?

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  31. Raks anand

    June 10, 2015 at 2:11 am

    Yes Just beat well.

    Reply
  32. Roh

    September 1, 2015 at 3:20 am

    Just hooked on to ur page.. Tried the eggless banana chocolate cake … Delicious
    For this receipe can I replace butter wth oil ? If yes then wats the quantity

    Reply
  33. Roh

    September 1, 2015 at 3:20 am

    Also no baking powder ?

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  34. Raks anand

    September 1, 2015 at 3:27 am

    Yes you can try, but not sure about quantity. Yes no baking powder

    Reply
  35. Sampath Gowri

    December 9, 2015 at 3:26 pm

    Can we use normal oven with cookie option??

    Reply
  36. Raks anand

    December 9, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    I dont know how much you can control the temperature, you can try in small quantity and check first.

    Reply
  37. Anup Mangal

    March 5, 2016 at 5:10 am

    Hi…at wat temperature and time are we supposed to keep dis cookies??

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  38. Anup Mangal

    March 5, 2016 at 5:11 am

    Hi…in microwave convection at wat temperature and time are we supposed to keep dis cookies??

    Reply
  39. Raks anand

    March 5, 2016 at 5:13 am

    Preheat temperature is always same as baking temperature. So its 160 deg C

    Reply
  40. sunny

    March 10, 2016 at 1:33 am

    Do you take it out of the tray and cool on a wire rack or do you cool in the baking tray itself, outside of the oven?

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  41. Raks anand

    March 10, 2016 at 1:45 am

    I cooled as such in the tray outside oven.

    Reply
  42. sunny

    March 14, 2016 at 4:16 am

    Thanks! It came out sooo good..all my friends loved it!

    Reply
  43. reeba

    April 18, 2016 at 8:45 am

    Is this sweet enough?only 1/4 cup sugar ?

    Reply
  44. Raks anand

    April 18, 2016 at 8:49 am

    Yes that's the proportion

    Reply
  45. getzica kandaswamy

    January 13, 2017 at 12:24 am

    how long can we use the cookies after its baked.. expires when?

    Reply
  46. Raks anand

    January 13, 2017 at 12:32 am

    It stays good for a month at shelf. Just make sure to store in airtight tins.

    Reply

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