How to make short bread

How to make short bread

🕳Ingredients

🔲150 grams Plain Flour or Fine Wheat flour
🔲100 grams Butter (not margarine)
🔲 50 grams Icing sugar (powdered sugar)
🔲2 tablespoonful Powdered Milk (optional, but makes it extra rich and creamy)

🕳Note
If you don’t have icing sugar, you can make use of finely grinded granulated sugar.

🕳Procedure
🔲Mix the butter and icing sugar together until creamy.
🔲 Sieve the plain flour and powdered milk into the bowl and mix thoroughly.
🔲Form a ball with the dough and leave to rest in the fridge or in a cool place for 30 minutes.
🔲Preheat the oven at 170ºC /325ºF for about 5 minutes.
🔲Place the dough on a table and roll it out to 3/4 inch thick width
🔲Cut into 2cm by 10cm shortbread fingers or shapes and gently transfer into a baking tray.
🔲Use toothpick to make indents on the shortbread fingers.
🔲Finally, place the tray into the preheated oven and bake at 170ºC /325ºF for 10- 12 minutes or until firm, but not brown.

👉Tip: shortbread should not be brown but should have a cream color.
🔲 Leave to cool completely, Serve and Enjoy!