Highland Shortbread

Name: Highland Shortbread
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 300 g butter, softened; 100 g Demerara sugar; 125 g cornflour; 340 g plain flour; 125 g caster sugar

Preparation info

Makes
25–30
biscuits

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

About

This recipe came from a wonderful baker called Mairi. She worked with us for the first 12 years of the café, and she really set the standard for the baking. She was incredible – one of the hardest working people I’ve known, and with the lightest touch when it came to baking. You’ll not find a better shortbread recipe!

Ingredients

300 g butter, softened
125 g caster sugar
340 g<

United Kingdom
Scottish
Cookies
Vegetarian
Scotland

Method

Put the butter, caster sugar, flour and cornflour in a food processor and blitz until you have a dough. (You can also do this by hand in a bowl, but a food processor makes light work of it.)
Put the dough on a lightly floured worktop and split it into two equal pieces. With your hands, roll each piece into a log about 20cm long and 6cm in diameter.
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