Shortbread Recipe

by Adam Stokes

! 40 " 20 minutes

Ingredients

1/4 cinnamon stick

100g of caster sugar

2 vanilla pods

750g of flour

250g of icing sugar

5g of salt

500g of butter

40g of egg yolk

Method

1 Place the cinnamon stick in a food processor and grind into a fine powder. Add the caster
sugar to the mixer and blend again

- 1/4 cinnamon stick

 - 100g of caster sugar

2 Score down the vanilla pod and remove the seeds. Add both the pod and the seeds to the
sugar mix and store until ready to use

- 2 vanilla pods

3 For the shortbread, sift the flour into the icing sugar, add the salt and mix together. Mix in
the softened butter and add the beaten egg yolk. Roll out the mix onto a floured surface
until 1/2cm thick

- 750g of flour

- 250g of icing sugar

- 5g of salt

- 500g of butter

- 40g of egg yolk

4 Preheat the oven to 180˚C. Cut the shortbread into 8cm by 3cm rectangular fingers and
place in the oven. Cook until browned at the edges, or 10 minutes approximately

5 Remove the shortbread from the oven and allow to briefly cool on the cooling rack.
Sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar and serve