This weeks cooking challenge set by Paula from MummyvsWork is to make shortbread. The recipe is for Shortbread Biscuits and you will need:
Ingredients: 500g butter, softened 200g caster sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 500g plain flour (I used self raising as this was all I had!)
Preparation: Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Stir in vanilla and add flour and mix well. Roll out to 1cm thickness and cut out desired shaped with biscuit cutters. Place on baking tray and bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
Ok so that was what we did.
However, my comments regarding this recipe are as follows:
* our shortbread did not make a dough which we could roll out as it was quite sticky. So we just put dollops of mixture on to the baking trays instead.
* we made flavoured shortbread. we divided the mixture into 3 batches and added cocoa powder to one, raisins to another and blue food colouring to the third
* this recipe makes an awful lot of dough and hence, a lot of biscuits. I would recommend making half the quantity unless you can eat a lot of biscuits very quickly!
Anyway, enough of the waffle let me show you my little Sous Chef in action 🙂 Take it away Burton
mixing the butter & sugar and sifting the flour
making our ‘iggle piggle’ blue biscuits
making raisin biscuits
making chocolate biscuits
ta-daaah!!
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Thank you xx
jessies_online
those blue ones look erm…yummy!! Can’t believe Burton didn’t even want to try the blue ones…what child refuses blue biscuits!! They turned out better than I expected from your tweets!
x
Paula Fazekas
They look yummy compared to your tweets! Burton looks more helpful with Kayleigh – she insists on trying to eat most of it before it goes in the oven!
Jennypaulin
I should have added more flour to make the mix more doughy, so we could have used our cookie cutters! Still they tasted nice x
Jennypaulin
What child refuses biscuits?!? X
jessies_online
I actually caught Jack on 2 occasions throwing his in the bin….and there was me thinking he was eating them!!
x
Jennypaulin
Ha ha not just Burton then!! X