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