Login Sign Up

Follow Nigella on: Facebook Twitter Vimeo Pinterest

EASY SHORTBREAD

Related Nigella Recipes

There are no related recipes yet.

Related Community Recipes

There are no related community recipes yet.

Serves: 10

Print
What does this mean?

This recipe is taken from my Mum's old school textbook; "The young homemaker" by Angela Creese. A very easy, simple recipe with ingrediants that are always to hand and a taste that is sure to please. This recipe is easily doubled.

Recipe posted by

Join in and share one of your own recipes

Add a Recipe

Ingredients

Switch to Cup Measures
  • 150 grams plain flour
  • 100 grams margarine
  • 50 grams caster sugar

Method

  1. Preheat oven 160C, Gas mark 6.
  2.  Cream together the butter and sugar in a bowl. Gradually mix in the flour. Using your hands knead the mix together into a smooth ball.
  3. Roll out to about 1/2 cm thick. Cut out your shapes and place on baking tray.
  4. Bake for 10-15min. Sprinkle with a little sugar while they cool.

While all of Nigella's recipes are of course tested extensively, nigella.com do not test any of the community recipes, so cannot verify the results or answer queries concerning them.

Tried this recipe?

Why not leave a comment or a suggestion?

Please note, questions and queries for the nigella.com
team cannot be answered here - please instead submit
any questions as "Kitchen Queries".

Add Comment

  • As a complete novice to baking, the thought of producing home made shortbread was daunting to say the least however, this recipe did exactly what it said on the tin, it was so straightforward and the shortbread tastes fantastic!

    Posted by firsttimebaker on 29th Jan 2013 at 17.30

  • I tried this recipe first with the recommended amount of flour but found the biscuits to be rather tasteless, soft and floury. Simply reducing the flour to 125g instantly made a big difference.

    Posted by pcarr92153 on 1st Apr 2013 at 23.11

  • Perfect! Managed this with my wriggly baby under my arm! Baby is now asleep and I am eating them with a nice cup of tea. :-)

    Posted by Sherlocksmummy on 11th Apr 2013 at 15.58