Traditional Shortbread Wedges Recipes

SHORTBREAD WEDGES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees. In mixing bowl, cream butter. Add flour and sugar; mix just to combine (chill 10 minutes if too soft).
• Pat into an 8-inch round cake pan; crimping edge with a floured fork. Bake until firm and slightly browned, 30 to 35 minutes (drape with foil if browning too quickly). Immediately score into eight wedges; cool completely. Turn out of pan; slice with a serrated knife.

TRADITIONAL SHORTBREAD WEDGES

Steps:

• Sift together flour, sugar, and salt into a bowl. Place butter into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium-high speed until fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes, scraping down sides of bowl. Gradually add flour mixture; beat until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 300 degrees, with rack in upper third.
• Using plastic wrap, press dough into a buttered 10-inch fluted tart pan with a removable bottom. With plastic on dough, refrigerate 20 minutes. Remove plastic wrap. Cut dough into eight wedges with a paring knife. Using a wooden skewer, prick all over at 1/4-inch intervals.
• Bake until golden brown and firm in center, about 1 hour. Transfer pan to a wire rack. Recut shortbread into wedges; let cool completely in pan. Cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature up to 2 weeks.

BUTTER SHORTBREAD WEDGES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Lightly grease an 8-inch cake round cake pan In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and two sugars until fluffy Sift the flour and salt into the butter and sugar mixture.
• Add the extract and water mixture and bring everything together to form a soft dough Press the dough out evenly in the pan.
• Prick the dough well and score into 8 triangles with a knife.
• Bake for 30-35 minutes or until the cookie is pale golden and crisp.
• Sprinkle with the extra sugar, then cut along the marked lines to make the fantails. Leave the shortbread in the pan to cool before cutting and removing from the pan Store in an air tight container.

SHORTBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Line a baking sheet with greaseproof (parchment) paper. Sift the flour and rice flour into a medium mixing bowl. Add the sugar and mix.
• Cut butter into pieces and rub into the flour with your fingertips until the mixture begins to bind together. Knead into soft dough.
• Roll the dough into an 8 inch round (or for exact round, mold it in an 8 inch cake pan). Place on baking sheet. Using a fork, prick top and make tine marks along edge. Using a table knife, score top with wedge marks. (This is where it will break when cooled)
• Bake 45 minutes or until pale golden in color. Sprinkle a little superfine sugar over top and cool on baking sheet. Cut into wedges. Keeps for weeks in airtight tin.

HAWAIIAN SHORTBREAD WEDGES

Steps:

• Position a rack in the middle of an oven and preheat to 325-degrees (165C).
• On a baking sheet, mix together the coconut and macadamia nuts.
• Bake, stirring occasionally, until lightly toasted, about 8 minutes.
• Remove from oven and let cool- leave oven set at 325-degrees (165C).
• In a bowl, using an electric mixer set on medium speed, beat the butter until fluffy, about 4 minutes.
• Add the sugar and beat, stopping once or twice to scrape the sugar to the center of the bowl with a rubber spatula, until light, about 1 minute.
• Beat in the egg yolk, vanilla and salt.
• On low speed, beat in the flour and then the coconut mixture and the mango to form a soft dough.
• Divide the dough in half and press each half into a round cake pan 9 inches (23 cm) in diameter.
• Using fork tines, mark each round into 8 wedges.
• Bake until the shortbread is golden brown, about 20 minutes.
• Transfer the pans to a rack and, using the marks as guides, cut into wedges.
• Let cool completely.
• Store in an airtight container at room temp up to 3 days.