Scottish Shortbread Cookies

Name: Scottish Shortbread Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 dozen.
Cuisine: Comfort Food Desserts, Comfort Food Recipes
Ingredients: 4 cups all-purpose flour; 1 cup sugar; 1 pound cold butter, cubed

This simple three-ingredient shortbread cookie recipe makes wonderfully rich, tender cookies. Serve them with fresh berries of the season for a nice, light dessert. You'll get miles of smiles when friends see these at an afternoon tea or a bridal shower. —Marlene Hellickson, Big Bear City, California

Ingredients

4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 pound cold butter, cubed

Directions

Preheat oven to 325°. In a large bowl, combine flour and sugar. Cut in butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Knead dough until smooth, about 6-10 times. Pat dough into an ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Pierce with a fork.
Bake until lightly browned, 25-30 minutes. Cut into squares while warm. Cool on a wire rack.

Nutrition Facts

2 each: 244 calories, 16g fat (10g saturated fat), 41mg cholesterol, 157mg sodium, 24g carbohydrate (8g sugars, 1g fiber), 2g protein.

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suefalk

Jan 19, 2020

Delicious! A traditional shortbread - tender and buttery. I made two batches of this. The first batch I left plain. The other batch I spread melted caramel on top, then drizzled melted chocolate. Easy homemade Twix bars!
Martha

Dec 10, 2019

Can you use this dough in a cookie press? It sounds exactly like what I want and so simple.
Kathleen

Dec 3, 2019

You should use castor (extra fine) granulated sugar for short bread.
Christopher

Nov 24, 2019

Great recipe. One tip. My family has made these every Christmas for as long as I can remember.after done and fairly cool, sprinkle with come colored sugar for some holidat color.
1008oregon

Sep 17, 2019

Wow, teresa. Actually, ritapdx is correct - Scotch refers to whisky (this IS correct spelling) and eggs. Everything/everyone else is Scottish. So, unless a recipe contains Scotch, it is Scottish. And BTW, don’t use a .? at the end of a sentence. It makes you seem uneducated.
Teresa

Apr 1, 2019

ritapdx. Who asked for your opinion on what she calls her recipe.?
ritapdx

Mar 23, 2019

This is a great recipe! However, "Scotch Shortbread Cookies" should be "Scottish Shortbread Cookies". The word "Scottish" is an adjective meaning something or someone relating to Scotland. "Scotch", in modern usage, is a noun that usually means a type of Whisky. "Scotch" used as an adjective synonymous with "Scottish" is archaic and most Scots these days resent its use in that context.
JennKurth

Dec 22, 2018

I made these for a friend as a Christmas present. I grated my pound of butter instead of cubing it. It makes it easier to mix and get that coarse crumb thats needed. I baked mine for 25 minutes and they were perfect. He absolutely loved them,thanks for the great recipe!
Jay-Joyce

Feb 14, 2018

Way too crumbly. I had to add another stick (1/2 cup) of butter to give it some form.
Sophie

Oct 23, 2017

The cookie dough is quite tasty... the cookies themselves are almost better!