Recipe: Perfect Scottish Shortbread Cookies

Scottish Shortbread Cookies.

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. It’s 1 1/4 cup of sugar.
3. It’s 1/4 tsp of salt.
4. You need 5 cups of flour.

Scottish Shortbread Cookies step by step

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..