shortbread cookies

How To Make shortbread cookies

• Step 1
  Cut in all 3 ingredients using a hand pastry blender. It will look like crumbs and may take 4-5 minutes to do this. It will be dry.
• Step 2
  On a clean surface, sprinkle some flour and turn the butter crumbs onto this surface and knead the crumbs into a smooth ball. You may think that this will never happen but with the warmth of your hands it will happen. It may take you 3-5 minutes.
• Step 3
  Now you have the butter dough in front of you. Devide in half. Now you need 2, 8 inch cake pans. Place each of the devided dough into a round 8 inch cake pan and pat each dough flat into the pans. NOTE: no need to spray the cake pans, the butter in the flour does the trick.
• Step 4
  Now take a knife and score the dough into 8 wedge, pie shape pieces and then prick each pie shape with a fork. Each pan will have 8 pieces totalling 16 wedges.
• Step 5
  Bake in a preheated 325 oven for 25-30 minutes. As soon as you remove the 2 cake pans, take a knife and re-score the cut lines in the shortbread. Allow cooling time. Another little extra is to dip the cool edge of the wedge of shortbread into a good chocolate that has been melted. Dove or Guittard Chocolate is best.
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