Homemade Shortbread Cookies
Published Dec 23, 2019
Updated Dec 22, 2022
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You’ll love these Homemade Shortbread Cookies! They melt in your mouth and are perfectly buttery and milky. You only need 3 ingredients for this recipe.
I love classic cookie recipes. Give me some Danish Butter Cookies or some Chocolate Chip Cookies and I’ll be a happy girl!
The first time I had shortbread cookies was at a family friend’s house. I wanted more… and more but there wasn’t enough to go around.
So I started searching for the cookies in the stores because my taste buds were eager to enjoy some. The price at which they were sold could make me faint. I believed it was so much money just for “biscuits.”
But they taste really good and they are very rich so I understand but I couldn’t keep churning out all that money for shortbread cookies. I had to find a way to make mine.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
These cookies are milky, buttery (did I already say that?), and just divine. I thought the recipe will include milk since they taste milky but nope, the very present milky taste comes from the butter.
So no milk is needed in this shortbread recipe. The butter makes it taste milky because butter is dairy. If you love shortbread cookies also check out these Lemon Shortbread Cookies.
Ingredients for Homemade Shortbread Cookies
How To Make Homemade Shortbread Cookies
Prep the baking sheet: Line one large or two medium baking trays with parchment paper and set aside.
Step 1: Put room-temperature butter and sugar in a bowl.
Step 3: Sieve in your flour. Then add a pinch of salt.
Step 4: Mix together. The mixture will be slightly tough. Just try to get everything together.
Step 5: Now mold into a ball.
Step 6: Wrap dough in a plastic wrap and try to form it into a rectangle as much as you can. It should be about half an inch thick.
Step 7: Now place the dough in a fridge and let it cool for about 30 minutes. You need to do this so you can shape your cookies properly. Take it out and roll it out to about a quarter inch thick. Leave the plastic wrap on while doing this.
Step 8: Take off the plastic wrap and trim the edges to form a rectangle… or something in the form of a rectangle. Ha. Cut out into little rectangles – about 2-4 inches long. If you have a cookie cutter, you could just use it to cut to desired shapes.
Step 9: Place your cuts on your prepared baking tray. Use a fork to poke each piece a couple of times.
Step 10: Now bake in the oven for about 10 minutes or until light brown in color.
Watch How to Make Homemade Shortbread Cookies
More Cookie Recipes You’ll Love
- Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Easy Coconut Macaroons
- Easiest Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Danish Butter Cookies
- Lemon Shortbread Cookies
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Homemade Shortbread Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter (225g) it has to be butter and not margarine.
- 2 cups flour (250g)
- 1/2 cup icing sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 Degrees Farenheit. Grease a baking tray or line with parchment paper and set aside.
- Put room temperature butter and sugar in a bowl. Use a fork or wooden spoon to mix together until well combined.
- Add in half of your flour and the salt. Mix together. The mixture will be very crumbly at this stage.
- Add in the remaining flour and mix well. Use your hand to combine everything to form a ball of dough.
- Wrap dough in a plastic wrap and try to form it into a rectangle as much as you can with your hand. It should be about half an inch thick.
- Now place the dough in a fridge and let it cool for about 30 minutes. You need to do this so you can shape your cookies properly. While the dough is in the fridge, preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).Take out dough and roll with a rolling pin to about 1/4 inch thick. Leave the plastic wrap on while doing this.
- Now open the wrap then you cut the dough into rectangles. If you have a cookie cutter, you could just use it to cut to desired shapes.
- Place your cuts on trays lined with parchment paper.
- Use a fork to poke each piece a couple of times.
- Now bake in the oven for about 10 minutes until light golden in color.
Notes
Nutrition
*This recipe has been updated with new pictures, doubled measurements, nutritional information, and lots of tips.
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Very interesting tnx darling!! Sure l will give it try
Hope you enjoy, Jossy!
Hie l love the shortbread now that l got the recipe l am definitely going to bake my own thank you
Hi, hope you enjoy!
its nice
thanks for sharing
what of if you don’t have an oven
Hi Isaac, you could bake in a large pot layered with sand.
Wow. I tried this and It was wonderful!! Thanks Precious. I owe You hahahaha
Glad you loved it dear.
Love your recipe. Its divine. Really appreciate. Thank you dearly
You’re so welcome.