Almond Shortbread
Recipe submitted by Philippa
a wonderful recipe from my dear friend Douglas H.
Ingredients
- 250g butter, softened in microwave oven
- half a cup of caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 2 and a quarter cups of plain flour
- 100g flaked almonds
Method
- Preheat oven to 150C fan forced
- Beat butter, sugar and vanilla till light and fluffy (approx 5 mins)
- Stir in sifted flour and almonds
- Roll rounded teaspoons of mixture into balls.
- Place 2cm apart on greased oven trays.
- Press slightly with a fork.
- Bake for for about 20 minutes or until pale straw colour.
- Let stand 10 minutes on tray before transferring to a wire rack to cool.
- When cool, sprinkle with icing sugar.
- Makes about 35-40 biscuits
Notes & Tips
I rolled half the batch & 'formed' the other half using a teaspoon. The unrolled biscuits looked nicer and less uniform in my opinion.
