Lavender Shortbread

Name: Lavender Shortbread
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Ingredients: 200 g plain white flour; 175 g unsalted butter, from a chilled 250 g block; 75 g caster sugar, plus extra for decorating; 40 g ground rice flour; Pinch of fine sea salt; 5-10 drops Castle Farm ‘Hot’ Lavender Essence; 1 heaped tsp Castle Farm Culinary Lavender Flowers; 175 g unsalted butter, from a chilled 250 g block

Preparation info

Makes about
20

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 55

Appears in

For the Love of the Land

By Jenny Jefferies

Published 2020

About

A simple recipe for delicately flavoured, melt-in-the-mouth shortbread. Perfect for a relaxing afternoon tea. – Caroline Alexander

Ingredients

200 g plain white flour
Pinch of fine sea salt
40 g

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Sift the flour and salt into a bowl and stir in the ground rice flour and sugar. Take your butter from the fridge, and while your bowl is on the weighing scales, grate in 175g of butter from the block. Sprinkle in the lavender flowers and add the drops of lavender essence. Work it all quickly into the flour until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

Press the shortbread dough gently