Hours of Fun are counting down the days until Christmas by sharing a different Christmas activity each day. Starting on the 13th December with the last post being published on Christmas Eve.
On the 8th day of Christmas my true love gave to me………A basket of homemade Shortbread!
Make your own Shortbread
My husband has recently discovered he can make amazing shortbread – another reason he makes a fab husband!! He has been mastering the technique and can now produce a batch of evenly baked, delicious in taste, Shortbread rounds.
You can make Shortbread without rice flour, however we have found that a recipe with rice flour listed makes an improved shortbread.
Ingredients – make approx 15
150g unsalted butter cut into small pieces
100g caster sugar
180g plain flour
55g rice flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
How to make the Shortbread
oven temperature – 170 degrees C
- Grease two baking sheets
- Cream the butter and sugar together until combined
- Sift the flour, baking powder and salt and add to the mixture
- Mix well with a spoon
- Using your hands bring the mixture together to form a dough
- Roll out the dough between two sheets of grease proof paper until approx. 7mm
The grease proof paper helps it roll without sticking, Kev then uses a smoothing tool to finish it off.
- Using your round cutter, cut out circles. Decorate them using smaller cutters, cocktail stick anything you have to hand and get creative! Then place them on the greased tins approx. 2cm apart
- Bake in the oven for 20 minutes
- Leave to cool for a few minutes on the tray then cover them in caster sugar
- Eat them!
Christmas baking makes fantastic gifts for people. We are putting together bags of goodies for people this year, last year we did Christmas cakes and mince pies. It makes a fab little extra gift for people, it helps to keep the costs down and most importantly it is handmade with love by us for all our friends and family and nothing can beat that 🙂
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Christmas designs
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Split into bags with glitter string as a gift
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Try using different shaped cutters
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Add it to a tray of other cakes as a gift
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Bake it in a round tin and cut into cake slices
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The first batch of rounds
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Back to Mince pies for an update!
2 days ago we explored making your own mince pies and mincemeat. Since then we have made more mince pies using different techniques and I wanted to share them with you. Apologies it is not shortbread but its more Christmas baking to get you inspired!
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Closed tops with Christmas decoration
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Star tops open and closed
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Closed tops with Christmas cutters
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Have some fun with the left over pastry!
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