Trish’s shortbread

Name: Trish’s shortbread
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: Makes 9 shortbread rounds (4 pieces in each)
Ingredients: 60 g (2 oz) cornflour (cornstarch); 60 g (2 oz) cornflour (cornstarch); canola oil spray; 115 g (4 oz) caster (superfine) sugar; 230 g (8 oz) unsalted butter, at room temperature; 1 vanilla bean, seeds scraped; 315 g (11 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour

Preparation info

Makes
9
shortbread rounds (4 pieces in each)

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 5

Appears in

Chefs Host Christmas Too

By Darren Purchese

Published 2018

About

My mother-in-law, Trish, is the shortbread expert in our family, so I have stolen her recipe. She makes these delicious biscuits every year at Christmas and gives them to us all in beautifully wrapped jars.

Ingredients

115 g (4 oz) caster (superfine) sugar
230 g (8

December
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Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Put the sugar in a food processor and process until finer.
Put the butter in the bowl of a freestanding electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the vanilla seeds and cream the butter on low speed until very soft and pale, then increase the speed and add the sugar. Mix to combine well. Sieve the flour and cornflour together, then add to the creamed