We use a traditional recipe with just 4 ingredients, butter, sugar, cornflour and plain flour
They are absolutely delicious just sprinkled with sugar, but you can also smother or drizzle them with chocolate or cover in icing
We used to sell shamrock shaped ones at St Patrick’s day and at Christmas I love making shortbread snowmen, we’ve also had the odd Halloween Skeleton
The secret for me is to have really soft butter, and it must be butter, you can even soften it a bit in the microwave to make life easier
Ingredients
200g Butter
110g Caster Sugar
130g Cornflour
180g Plain Flour
Cream the butter & Sugar together
Add in the flours until thoroughly combined. I just let my big old Kenwood Chef do all the work here but if you are using a hand held mixer you might need to combine the last of it by hand
Roll out to your desired thickness
Bake at 170 for 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned
Sprinkle with sugar* and allow to cool slightly on the baking tray before moving to a wire rack
Store in an airtight container. Always store shortbread on its own as it will make anything else in the tin go soft
*If you want to add icing or chocolate don’t sprinkle with sugar, just leave them plain
Baked in Belfast 