Basic Biscuits (shortbread style)
Ingredients:
- 250 softened butter
- 60gr caster sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tbs of vanilla extract
- 300gr of plain flour
Tip for the butter:
If you just have cold one a few seconds in the microwave should do the trick but make sure you don’t melt it! Just make it soft 5-10 sec may be enough
Instruction:
- preheat the over to 160C
- mix the sugar with the butter
- add the egg yolk and the vanilla and keep mixing
- add the flour and mix all very well, you may need to get your hand in in the end
- you can chill the dough a bit (optional)
- roll out the dough and use a cookie cutter to make the shapes you want or simply cut some squares with a knife
- bake for 10-15min until it started to get golden
You can use this as a base and add onto it. for instance you add zest from 2 lemons to the sugar and butter mix. Or you could add some icing to it.
Icing 140gr icing sugar + 5 tbs of lemon juice.