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?
Shortbread cookies recipe
Recipe Cuisine: Continental | Recipe Category: Snack
Prep Time: 1 hr 30mins | Cook time: 15 mins | Makes: 30
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
Powdered sugar – 1/4 cup
Unsalted butter – 1/2 cup
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Vanilla essence – 1/2 tsp
Method
- 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.
- 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.
- Flatten to disc and wrap with a cling wrap. Keep refrigerated for atleast an hour.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
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.
jeyashri suresh
March 31, 2014 at 11:13 amBeautiful cookies . I always love to eat this. Nice presentation
anusha praveen
March 31, 2014 at 11:47 amI 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
Ramya Krishnamurthy
March 31, 2014 at 11:54 amYummy cookies and this is my all time favorite
Veena Theagarajan
March 31, 2014 at 12:11 pmso perfectly done Raks.. too good
Revathi
March 31, 2014 at 12:12 pmLooks yummy may I know wat hand blender you use
Swarna
March 31, 2014 at 12:32 pmLooks yummy!
Priya Suresh
March 31, 2014 at 12:32 pmVery hard to resist to thise buttery cookies, very addictive they are.
Rafeeda AR
March 31, 2014 at 12:34 pmThese look so addictive…
Raks anand
March 31, 2014 at 3:29 pmBosch
Durga Pugazh
March 31, 2014 at 3:38 pmKindly tell me whether we can replace refined flour by wheat flour…
AparnaRajeshkumar
March 31, 2014 at 3:52 pmlook so nice….
Hari Chandana P
March 31, 2014 at 3:57 pmBeautifully baked cookies.. love them.
Raks anand
April 1, 2014 at 3:42 amYes you can try.
Viveka Theeban
April 1, 2014 at 4:48 amhow much is 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup flour in gms ?
nandoos Kitchen
April 1, 2014 at 5:55 amyummy cookies. Love them..
Deesingh
April 1, 2014 at 10:42 amPerfect for school snacks. Thank you
bagirathidevi senthilkumar
April 1, 2014 at 11:08 amShapes r very nice
Durga Pugazh
April 1, 2014 at 11:41 amThank you for the response..
Saraswathi Vanga
April 1, 2014 at 12:21 pmWhy is the name of the oven u use??
Laavanya
April 1, 2014 at 2:54 pmI love these buttery cookies… looks so good with the fun shapes 🙂
Sugandhi
April 1, 2014 at 3:26 pmcan v do this in convection model oven??
Sathya Priya
April 1, 2014 at 4:17 pmoh lovely cookies .Very tempting for me itself then why not kids ?.Guess ur son enjoyed helping u
Kavitha Balachandran
April 1, 2014 at 5:10 pmWOW, SUCH NICE COOKIES.IT SMELL HERE.SO TEMPTING.WELL DONE
Vanamala Hebbar
April 1, 2014 at 5:12 pmNice and cute cookies
Raks anand
April 2, 2014 at 4:50 pmPanasonic dimensions 4
Raks anand
April 2, 2014 at 4:51 pmYes ofcourse
Hobby Sewer
April 3, 2014 at 3:02 pmThank 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
SHARMILEE J
April 9, 2014 at 1:21 amLove the bright clicks…melting shortbread cookies, mittus fav anytime
priya selva
August 26, 2014 at 2:34 pmLooking nice…..
V'l try definitely. .
Aishu
June 10, 2015 at 2:09 amWill this work without a hand blender?
Raks anand
June 10, 2015 at 2:11 amYes Just beat well.
Roh
September 1, 2015 at 3:20 amJust 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
Roh
September 1, 2015 at 3:20 amAlso no baking powder ?
Raks anand
September 1, 2015 at 3:27 amYes you can try, but not sure about quantity. Yes no baking powder
Sampath Gowri
December 9, 2015 at 3:26 pmCan we use normal oven with cookie option??
Raks anand
December 9, 2015 at 3:33 pmI dont know how much you can control the temperature, you can try in small quantity and check first.
Anup Mangal
March 5, 2016 at 5:10 amHi…at wat temperature and time are we supposed to keep dis cookies??
Anup Mangal
March 5, 2016 at 5:11 amHi…in microwave convection at wat temperature and time are we supposed to keep dis cookies??
Raks anand
March 5, 2016 at 5:13 amPreheat temperature is always same as baking temperature. So its 160 deg C
sunny
March 10, 2016 at 1:33 amDo 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?
Raks anand
March 10, 2016 at 1:45 amI cooled as such in the tray outside oven.
sunny
March 14, 2016 at 4:16 amThanks! It came out sooo good..all my friends loved it!
reeba
April 18, 2016 at 8:45 amIs this sweet enough?only 1/4 cup sugar ?
Raks anand
April 18, 2016 at 8:49 amYes that's the proportion
getzica kandaswamy
January 13, 2017 at 12:24 amhow long can we use the cookies after its baked.. expires when?
Raks anand
January 13, 2017 at 12:32 amIt stays good for a month at shelf. Just make sure to store in airtight tins.