Name: Shortbreads (Kurabiye)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: Makes about 25 shortbreads
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 100 ml (3½ fl oz) milk; 250 g (9 oz) butter, diced and softened; 100 g (3½ oz/1 cup) ground almonds or walnuts; icing (confectioners’) sugar for dusting; 80 g (2¾ oz/⅓ cup) caster (superfine) sugar; 400 g (14 oz/2⅔ cups) plain (all-purpose) flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; pinch of pure vanilla powder

Preparation info

Makes about
25
shortbreads

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 15

Appears in

Istanbul Cult Recipes

By Pomme Larmoyer

Published 2015

About

Ah! Kurabiye. The piles of little biscuits, snowy with icing sugar, that beckon seductively at passersby from the windows of the bakeries’ You could stop to eat them everywhere. In a legendary firm in Beşiktas, in a chic café in Nişantaşi, in a discreet little shop in Cihangir... They come in various shapes and flavours: plain, with apple, walnuts, almonds ...