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Brown Sugar Scottish Shortbread

ScottishDessertEasy
Prep
30 min
Cook
20 min
Total
50 min
Serves
48
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Ingredients

  • 2 cupunsalted butter, softened
  • 1 cupbrown sugar, packed
  • 4.5 cupall-purpose flour
  • 0.5 tspsalt

Method

  1. 1Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
  2. 2Cream the butter and brown sugar together in a large bowl with a mixer. Add 3 to 3 3/4 cups flour, one cup at a time, mixing well after each cup. Sprinkle your work surface with the remaining flour. Knead the dough a few times until it comes together, then roll it out with a rolling pin so that it's about 1/4 to 1/2 an inch in thickness.
  3. 3Use either a 2-inch cookie cutter or a shortbread cookie cutter to cut your cookies into desired shape. Prick with fork or a toothpick to make little holes in the cookies and place on ungreased baking sheets.
  4. 4Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 20 to 25 minutes. Do not let them get brown. Remove from the oven. Let the cookies cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes before transferring them to a rack to finish cooling.

Notes

These Brown Sugar Scottish Shortbread are buttery, deliciously chewy, sweet and incredibly easy to make! Tips: Instead of cutting the cookies into desired shapes you can pat the dough into an ungreased 17.88 x 12.88 x 1.06 inch baking sheet lined with parchment paper hanging off the sides for easy removal. After baking, lift the cookies from the sheet using the parchment paper, then cut into desired shapes. If using salted butter, there's no need to add additional salt. These cookies freeze incredibly well — place in an airtight container and freeze for up to 3 months.