Sugar Crusted Shortbread Rounds
From crossfire 16 years agoIngredients
- 2 cups butter shopping list
- 1 cup superfine sugar shopping list
- 4 cups flour shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups gound rice or rice flour shopping list
- 1 tsp salt shopping list
- sugar to decorate shopping list
How to make it
- Place the butter and sugar in a bowl and cream together until light, plae and fluffy. Alternatively, process them in a food processor, then scrape the mixture into a bowl.
- Sift together the flour, ground rice and salt and stir into the butter and sugar with a wooden spoon, until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Working quickly, gather the dough together with your hand, then put it on a clean work surface. Knead lightly together until it forms a ball, but take care not to over knead or the shortbread will be tough and greasy. Lightly roll into a sausage shape about 3 inch thick. Wrap the roll of dough in clear film and chill until firm.
- Preheat oven to 375 derees. LIne 2 baking sheets with baking parchment.
- Pour the sugar on to a sheet of parchment. Unwrap the dough an roll it in the sugar until evenly coated. Using a large, sharpknife, slice the roll into discs anbout 1/2 inch thick.
- Place the dics on to the baking sheets, spacing them well apart. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes until very pale gold in color.
- Remove from the oven and sprinkle with sugar. Leav to cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
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