Recipe: Tasty Scottish Shortbread Cookies

A general food and cooking blog. I like to experiment and try all different types of cuisine and I have a passion for food photography and styling.

Scottish Shortbread Cookies. Historically, Scottish shortbread only varied from traditional shortbread in that it was originally made with remnants of bread dough, oatmeal and yeast, resulting in a dry, biscuit-like cookie. Scottish Shortbread Cookies Recipe & Video. Scottish Shortbreads are made by hand using just one large bowl.

Scottish Shortbread Cookies These tried-and-true Scottish cookies couldn't be easier! Maybe even more perfect with chocolate. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. You can have Scottish Shortbread Cookies using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Scottish Shortbread Cookies

  1. You need 5 sticks of butter, unsalted at room temperature.
  2. You need 1 1/4 cup of sugar.
  3. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
  4. It's 5 cups of flour.

Cream the butter and brown sugar together until light and fluffy. Shortbreads are one of the easiest and delicious shortbread biscuits. We can make this beautiful shortbreads with only a few basic ingredients. Full of that classic buttery flavor, they'll go great with an afternoon cup of tea or coffee!

Scottish Shortbread Cookies instructions

  1. Cream together butter and sugar. Mix in flour and salt. Dough will look crumbly..
  2. Pour entire bowl onto a cookie sheet. Spread out evenly over the entire sheet, pressing down, almost like making a crust. Should be about 1/2" high. Poke every 2 inches with a fork..
  3. Place in oven at 275 degrees F for an hour, until slightly golden brown..
  4. Let cookies cool on the baking sheet for about 10 minutes. Cut into squares or diamonds. A pizza cutter works great..

This is a great recipe for light and flaky cookies! I like to have one with a cup of coffee. Scottish shortbread was ALWAYS on the list of "to bake cookies." Along with chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, spritzer cookies, no-bake cookies…you get the idea, right? Shortbread is a traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three parts plain wheat flour. Other ingredients like ground rice or cornflour are sometimes added to alter the texture.