The first time I went to England as a kid, I hated the food except apple crumbles and shortbreads !

Since then London has become one of my favorite foodie city, especially for healthy and flavorful exotic food… and  I still love shortbreads 🙂

My kids too ! and if they could, they would eat some everyday.

I have explained to them that half of shortbreads dough being butter it is not an option 🙂 but sometimes we can not resist any longer and bake some this seriously good treat.

If you can not too, here is the recipe 🙂

THIS RECIPE IS

• Vegetarian
• Can be GF if you use GF flour
• A real treat
• So easy to make

INGREDIENTS

• 200 grs good salted butter (you can choose unsalted, but will be more plain, add 1tsp salt to the dough in that case)
• 300 grs regular baking flour (gf blend for gf option)
• 100 grs sugar

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat the oven, fan forced at 150 deg C.
2. Prepare a tray with baking paper
3. Chop the butter in cubes, and add the flour gradually. Mix to blend everything together, using your hands or your thermomix (bread knitting option for 1 to 2 min)
4. Add the sugar and blend again quickly to get a ball
5. Roll the dough on a floured surface, to 1 cm min (you can make it thicker if you prefer thicker cookies, but no less than 1 cm as it would be too thin).
6. Cut them in the shape you like
7. Put in the oven for around 30 min, edges should start becoming golden but not brown.
8. Transfer to a grid to cool them down and keep in metal tin for a few days.

NOTE:

• You can flavor them with vanilla or cinnamon if you like, even top with chocolate chips… but for me it is no longer shortbreads as it will take over the buttery flour flavour.

The Holidays have officially started ! And Rose and Leopold are so excited to go back to France !!! I had to figure out something to do this morning to use all their energy and turn it into a fun family activity… So we baked shortbreads. The real British ones, so buttery, they crumble between your fingers.

I have tried some plant based alternatives a few times, but not so satisfying. So I stick to the original recipe, which I don’t do so often as we are more on balanced healthy cooking usually 🙂

But they love them so much, that once in a while it is pure pleasure to see them eat them until the last crumb !

If you can’t wait to try them, follow the link below 🙂

Mouthwatering shortbreads