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Shortbread

Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad

This recipe for delicious shortbread was featured in the second series of Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard on Channel 4.

Preparation Time	45 minutes
Baking Time	10 minutes
Portions	4
Skill Level	Easy
Average Rating

Shortbread Ingredients

250 grams	Plain White Flour (Allinson Nature Friendly)
200 grams	Unsalted Butter chilled
100 grams	Golden Icing Sugar (Billington's)
2	Egg Yolk
1 tsp	Vanilla Extract (Nielsen Massey)

Additional Ingredients

300 grams	Raspberries
300 grams	Strawberries
2 tbsp	Golden Icing Sugar (Billington's)
1	Lemons

Further Additional Ingredients

300 grams

Strawberries hulled, plus extra to garnish

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How to make Shortbread

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Preheat the oven to 180°C/ 160°C fan/ 350°F/ Mark 4. Line a baking tray with baking paper
In a bowl add the butter, sifted flour and work the mixture with your finger tips to form crumbs. Make a well and add sifted icing sugar, the egg yolks and the vanilla extract. Mix the ingrediants together until combined and forms into dough. Wrap in cling film and leave to rest in the fridge for at least 30 minutes
Lightly dust the work surface with some flour and roll out the pasrty to 5mm thick. Using a fluted pastry cutter cut out 12 discs (3 discs per serving) and lay them onto the lined baking tray. Prick the pastry with a fork and bake for 10 minutes. Once cooked and golden, remove from the oven and leave to cool
For the coulis, put the raspberries and strawberris into a food processor and add the icing sugar and the juice of the lemo. Process until pureed. Pass it through a sieve into a bowl
Halve the straberries and add into the coulis and gently fold in, coating them well
On a serving plate place a shortbread and arrange some strawberries on the shortbread. Top with another shortbread and repeat with strawberries and finally finishing with a shortbread on the top. Dust with icing sugar, spoon some coulis around the shortbread stack and garnish with more fresh straberries

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Read all reviews (1) | Average rating: 5 stars

"Delicious and so easy to make. Looks professional as well."

03-03-2012 | Author: Rosie1941 | 5 stars

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