Make your own shortbread at home!

Serves: About 20 -25 sticks

Prep time: 1 hr

Ingredients

150 grams Plain Flour or Fine Wheat flour

100 grams Butter (not margarine)

50 grams icing sugar

2 tablespoonfuls Powdered Milk (optional, but makes it extra rich and creamy)

Preparation

1. Mix the butter and icing sugar together until creamy.

2. Sieve the plain flour + powdered milk (or the corn flour or rice flour) into the bowl and mix thoroughly until well incorporated.

3. Form a ball with the dough and leave to rest in the fridge or in a cool place for 30 minutes.

4. Now, preheat the oven at 170ºC /325ºF for about 5 minutes. Then Place the dough on a table and roll it out to 3/4 inch thick width, then cut into 2cm by 10cm shortbread fingers or shapes and gently transfer unto a baking tray.

5. Using a toothpick, make indents on the shortbread fingers.

6. And finally, place the tray into the preheated oven and bake at 170ºC /325ºF for 10- 12 minutes or until firm, but not brown.

Tips

*You can add about 3 tablespoonful of Corn flour or rice flour if you want to get a grainy texture.

*If you don't have icing sugar, you can make use of finely ground granulated sugar.

*Shortbread should not be browned but should have a cream color.