Crumbly shortbread biscuits. Once cooked and before they get cold, cover them in caster sugar. Alternatively you can sprinkle them with icing sugar and cocoa powder. The ingredients for shortbread are simple: butter, sugar, salt and flour.

Try bringing some of the dough to room temperature and incorporating some softened butter to get the right consistancy. Shortbread Cookies are traditional Scottish biscuits with a buttery taste that have a soft and crumbly texture. Try my Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies for another cookie with a shortbread-like foundation. You can cook Crumbly shortbread biscuits using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Crumbly shortbread biscuits

You need 200 ml of Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Spain.
It's 375 g of wheat flour.
It's 100 g of caster sugar.
It's 125 g of dessert wine.
You need 1 of pinch salt.
You need of Grated zest of 1 orange.
It's 1/4 of teaspoon cinnamon.
Prepare 1/4 of teaspoon cloves.
Prepare 1/4 of teaspoon aniseed seeds.
It's 1/4 of teaspoon sesame seeds.

Crumbly, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread dough made with just butter, sugar, and flour. Butter Cookies are an easy classic Cookie Recipe that no holiday dessert tray would be complete without. These classic shortbreads are even easier to make and just as essential this holiday season! Over time butter replaced the yeast and biscuit bread evolved into shortbread.

Crumbly shortbread biscuits step by step

Put all the ingredients in a bowl and work the mixture with your hands until you have a smooth, pliable dough. Depending on the type of flour you use, you may have to add a little more to absorb any excess moisture..
The dough is ready to use when it no longer sticks to your hands. Cover the bowl with cling film and leave to rest for a couple of hours..
Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface and, using a rolling pin, roll it to a thickness of around 1 cm. Choose some Christmas-themed cookie cutters and get cutting!.
Arrange the shortbreads on an oven tray and bake in a pre-heated oven at 180ºC for 25 minutes..
Once cooked and before they get cold, cover them in caster sugar..
Alternatively you can sprinkle them with icing sugar and cocoa powder..

The term "short" refers to the crumbly texture from the large quantity of butter. Butter was a luxury item and so shortbread was enjoyed only on special occasions and, of course, by the nobles and royals. These biscuits are savoury shortbread biscuits, which means they are buttery and crumbly, just like the sweet ones. Crumbly shortbread may be difficult to store and serve, but they are still highly edible. Or better yet, crumble over ice cream—nobody will complain!).