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Buttery Shortbread Cookies
This is a big recipe but it’s hard to halve an egg yolk! The dough keeps in the fridge for a few days and freezes well in a log or sliced so you can cook up a batch of fresh biscuits at short notice.
Prep Time
15 mins
plus chilling
Cook Time
15 mins
Serves
makes 60 biscuits
Nut Free
Baking
Dessert
Special Occasions
Kiwi
Vegetarian
$$
Ingredients
400 g butter, softened
1 cup caster sugar
1 egg yolk
2 tbsp cream, sour cream, or crème fraîche
3 1/2 cups plain flour
icing sugar, to dust (optional)
Method
STEP 1
Beat butter until creamy, add sugar and beat until just combined – you don’t need to dissolve it.
Beat in egg yolk and cream, sour cream or crème fraîche until just combined.
Stir in flour just until it is evenly combined and no patches of butter remain – again don’t over-mix.
Divide dough in half and roll in baking paper to form 2 log shapes, each about 20cm x 5cm.
Chill until firm (at least 30 minutes), store in the fridge for up to a week or freezer until needed.
STEP 2
Preheat oven to 150˚C fanbake and line 2 oven trays with baking paper.
Cut logs into 5mm-thick slices and arrange on prepared trays.
Bake until very lightly golden and cooked through (about 15 minutes).
Allow to cool on trays before dusting with icing sugar, if desired.
STORAGE
Shortbread will keep fresh in an airtight container for about a week.
