Food Vibes: ✨ Shortbread Cookies Recipe ✨ (Patreon)

These are my most favourite cookies! And I had to stop baking them "just because" because I will literally eat an entire batch in a single sitting 😅🙈

Shortbread cookies are both incredibly easy to make, and incredibly easy to mess up 😬 BUT the good news is: even if you mess up, they still taste delicious!

✨The Recipe✨

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 cup room temperature butter (I use salted 🤫)

• 1/2 cup caster sugar *finer grains than granulated, but bigger than icing sugar

  • If you don't have caster sugar (or can't find it), you can pulse granulated sugar in a blender until it's very fine, but DO NOT use icing sugar

• 1/2 tsp sea salt

• 1 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350F and prepare (butter) a 8x8 or 9x9 square pan.

Combine everything in a large mixing bowl and mix until it looks like course breadcrumbs. Pour it into your buttered pan and press firmly (like...really pack it down).

I usually score the bars at this point just using a butter knife for the shape (and a fork for vibes) to make them easier to cut when they come out of the oven.

Bake for 30 minutes or until the edges are lightly golden.

That's it! Easy, right? And so few dishes 🥹

Tips:

• Sometimes I like to mix the butter and vanilla a little bit first so that the vanilla is a little bit more even throughout the cookies!

• The main way people go wrong: DO NOT OVERMIX! Once your mixture starts looking like coarse breadcrumbs, that's when you know to stop mixing. If it starts to stick together instead of looking crumby, you have already overmixed. If your dough looks like dough, you've gone WAY too far. This will impact the texture of the shortbread and it will have a more typical cookie softness in the centre, which ultimately can still be good, but is not ideal for shortbread.

• Have fun and enjoy! ☺️