Purple shortbread. Well, this Iowa farm girl is gonna be missing our County Fair the end of this month. Each embossed purple thistle tin holds twenty perfect shortbread fingers for you to savor with a cup of great tea or just as is. Some Scots add jam or lemon curd on top.
Working on low speed, add the flour, mixing just until the dough comes together. Mix in the lilac blossoms and lemon zest. Since it has such a gorgeous purple color, ube, the purple yam from the Philippines, has gotten popular in the US recently. You can have Purple shortbread using 7 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Purple shortbread
- It's 2 cups of flour.
- Prepare 125 g of butter.
- It's 1 cup of icing sugar.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of vanilla flavor.
- You need 1/2 cup of milk powder.
- Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
- You need 1/4 tsp of Purple color.
It's long been a part of Filipino cuisine. The Ube Tea Cookies' package says these snacks are "purple yam shortbread cookies with powdered sugar." Wondering what to pair with these cookies? Sugar, butter and flour - simply delicious. Shortbread is the classic Scottish cookie.
Purple shortbread step by step
- Mix all the dry Ingredients in bowl and keep aside then in a seprate bowl cream the butter and sugar then add the flavor and the color mix and add all the dry ingredients mix using a spatula then use your hands to form a dough wrap in a cling film and keep in d fridge for 10 minutes..
- Flattened the dough in between patchment paper or polythene bag then cut it into rectangle shape using knife arrange and bake for 15 minutes.
Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Place sanding sugars in separate shallow plates; roll logs in sugar to fully coat. Cut logs into ½-inch-thick slices, and place on prepared pans. Remove from pans, and let cool completely on a wire rack. Beat butter until smooth (or use very soft butter and a wooden spoon).