Skill level:
Level 2
Preparation time:
35 minutes
Makes:
Pieces
Video:
No
What you need
Ingredients
- 150g plain flour
- 100g butter or margarine
- 50g light soft brown sugar
- large pinch of cinnamon, to taste
- zest of one orange
Equipment
- grater
- saucer
- sieve
- mixing bowl
- baking tray
- fork
- oven gloves
- cooling rack
What you do
- Preheat the oven to 160°C/gas mark 3.
- Using the small holes on a grater, lightly grate some zest from the
orange onto a saucer. Try to avoid the white pith.
- Sieve the flour into a mixing bowl and add the cinnamon, sugar and
orange zest.
- Rub in the butter or margarine.
- Bring the dough together and knead it lightly.
- Place the dough on the baking tray and press or roll the dough into
a round disc 1cm thick.
- Prick with a fork and decorate the edge. Using oven gloves, place
the tray in the oven for 15–20 minutes until firm.
- Cut the shortbread into eight segments and place on a cooling rack
straight away to cool.
Something else to try
Date and orange shortbread
Add 50g chopped dates to the rubbed-in mixture (step 4).
Lemon spice shortbread
Replace the orange and cinnamon with the zest of half a lemon and 2.5ml (half
a 5ml spoon) of mixed spice.
