Professional Baker Teaches You How To Make SHORTBREAD!

It's time to start off your shortbread education! Chef Anna Olson is a master at the fine art of baking the best shortbread, and she is hear to teach you all the steps you'll need to become a master yourself! Follow along with this video using the recipe below and then let us know how they turned out in the comments!

Ingredients

1 ¼ cup unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cup icing sugar, sifted
1 ½ tsp vanilla bean paste (or extract, if paste is not available)
1 ½ cup all-purpose flour
⅓ cup cornstarch
¼ tsp salt

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 325 F and line 2 baking trays with parchment paper.

2. Beat the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in the vanilla bean paste (or extract). It’s an important step to beat the butter and sugar well together when making shortbread – this ensures the shortbread will hold together and when you take a bite it will ‘snap’ and then melt away.

3. In a separate bowl, sift the flour, cornstarch and salt and add to the butter, mixing until blended and soft. Spoon the dough into a piping bag fitted with a large star tip (or into a cookie press). Pipe cookies about 1 ½-inches across onto the prepared baking trays and leaving an inch between each cookie. If you want a flatter cookie that spreads, bake right away. For a cookie that sits up and holds its shape, chill the piped unbaked cookies for 15 minutes before baking. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the cookies just begin to brown lightly on the bottom. Cool the cookies on the trays before storing in an airtight container.

4. The cookies will keep up to a week.

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