Classic Scottish Shortbread

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 cups Cake flour
• 2½ cups All purpose flour
• ¾ cups Sugar
• 1 pinch Salt
• 2¼ cups Butter (cut in pieces and softened)

Instructions

• 1 Heat the oven to 325 F (165C).
• 2 In a food processor mix together both the flours, sugar and salt. Add the butter
  and pulse until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• 3 Divide the dough in half. Pat the halves onto bottom of two ungreased 9 inch pie
  pans or ,if you want thicker cookies, two 8 inch pie pans.
• 4 Press a fork into the edges to make a decorative pattern, then prick dough all
  over. Refrigerate the pans for about 20-30 minutes.
• 5 Bake shortbread until golden, about 40 minutes. When ready, remove from the
  oven, carefully cute the shortbread into wedges and let them cool completely in
  pans on wire racks.
• 6 When cool, remove the wedges from pans and serve. Enjoy!

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