Your Shortbread Recipes, Please

[barry1010]

Do you cook it in one piece or cut in to shapes first?

Bake in a dish or on a tray? 

How thick do you prefer it?

I've baked it before but it needs improving, so your recipe and tips will be very welcome

[curlyfries81]

The only time I cooked it was when I made Millionaire shortbread, so I cooked it in one large piece in a tray then added the caramel and chocolate topping. 

Did you remember to do the fork pricks all over?

[douglas9401]

Take a one pound coin, enter Morrisons, pick up box of shortbread, pay at till, go home and put kettle on, eat shortbread with mug of tea.

Foolproof.

[calmck]

The best recipe I found for shortbread was from Marguerite Pattern. You can find it on line

[barry1010]

I do prick it all over, I'll have a look at that recipe, thanks both

[Impatiens]

I'm with Douglas on this.

[Buenchico]

Irrespective of the actual recipe that you use, Barry, the 'Recipe tips' section here might help you:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/shortbread_1290

[rowanwitch]

321 mix,  3 oz 50/50 plain flour/ rice flour

2 oz butter

1 oz caster sugar

Rub to soft crumb, bring together,  press into lined  7" tin until evenly spead, prick all over with fork, Mark wedges into are dough cutting to bottom of dough layer.  Bake 150° until pale gold and just firm.  Cool completely before breaking into wedges.

[Hazlinny]

Barry/  Have put a simple recipe on Food and Drink in Recipe section.

[wolf63]

I use Douglas's recipe.  I love shortbread.

When the Dalai Lama visited Scotland a few years back he went home with his bags stuffed with Shortbread.  🙂

[barry1010]

Thanks all.

Do you roll out or form the shape by hand (before cutting)?

[albaqwerty]

I use recipe similar to Rowan's, but a smidgen more butter. (Purely a taste bud thing) and squish the mixture into tin.

[netherfield]

I've tried most , and have to say Morrison's rounds are the best in the business and the worst for my waistline.

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe I'll wait until a keto version turns up 😉

[Old_Geezer]

Actually a short websearch came up with a shortlist of keto shortbread recipes in short time.

[Smowball]

Ooh OG I must look that up - didn't realise you followed Keto?

[Old_Geezer]

Not seriously, but I check it out to fit in with my minimising carbs aim.

 

Unfortunately eating out, and Xmas, tends to mess that aim up.

[Old_Geezer]

My keto bread attempts have not been particularly good. Initially okish, but after that first go (a microwave oven recipe) I couldn't seem to get conventional oven attempts to rise much. 😕

[pastafreak]

Do the keto recipes use nut flours? That's what's kept me from keto baking as I don't do nuts.

I do love shortbread...now I must try not to think about it as I do my Sainsbury's order 😆

[Old_Geezer]

Ones I've seen tend to. Almond usually, seen coconut sometimes. But I've not looked specifically to avoid them.

[maggiebee]

250 g unsalted butter softened

100 g caster sugar

400 g plain flour

Cream sugar and butter together

Add Flour

With your hands blend together until you can make a ball but it is still crumbly.

Press into a lined tin and level with the back of a spoon.  Make your cut lines and fork marks

Bake for 20/25 mins in a lined cake tin (I use an 8") at 160 degrees (fan oven)

Depending upon how thick you like it, this would make 2 rounds in 7" tins.