Photos of my shortbread

Jul 1, 2008 at 3:05 PM
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Butter - one 4 ounce stick
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Flour - 1&1/4 cup
Cream butter and sugar together, add flour, only just mix, make a loose ball, roll it out to 1/2" thick, make little fork holes, REFRIGERATE for at least an hour or more, then bake at 300 for 30 minutes.
Cool well before removing from pan.
Cut in wedges, eat whole round, make another before anyone notices.

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Great job! Looks SO delicious! I love shortbread and make several batches at Christmas. I have even rolled a bowlfull into a long log, wrapped it, and frozen it so that I can slice 'n' bake cookies through the year. Any time I'm invited to a party it's my shortbread that is requested :) And I've got so many different variations of it that I have to make all of them: regular shortbread (mine uses cornstarch, though), coffee shortbread, mocha shortbread, chocolate chippie, etc. Nothing really beats eating an entire batch of shortbread with a very large coffee in hand :)

xo

thegrumblebunny replied to Manon-It-All’s comment:
Jul 1, 2008
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Nothing really beats eating an entire batch of shortbread with a very large coffee in hand :)

Yes, but this round was made at a friend's request too for her friend whose husband is from Scotland. Pfft, too bad.... See, that's the thing with a round... you have to cut it before it cools, so i always just have to have one slice, two slices, well now it's uneven, I better eat that whole corner.... well it still looks lopsided, I better eat half, well now I can't give her half a round, I have to eat the whole thing...

Really I only had 2 slices - SO FAR. And that's nice to know about the frozen log deal... I get tired of making it batch by batch sometimes. I make it by hand and sometimes it makes my index finger hurt.

Here, i'll pour you a cuppa and hand you the shortbread...

It's a good thing I can't eat sugar anymore or recipes like this would make me fatter than I already am.

DKN replied to thegrumblebunny’s comment:
Jul 1, 2008
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well it still looks lopsided, I better eat half, well now I can't give her half a round, I have to eat the whole thing...

LOL! You're like Paula Poundstone and the box of Pop Tarts - one of my favorite bits of hers.

Looks truly delicious...hmm....you're gonna have to make more of that for a special visitor, no?

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That's some yummy looking short-bread you have there!!!! I could eat the wholr thing LOL!!! But, then again- it would shoot my diet all to ----, heehee!!!!