Bring in the New Year With Some Scottish Shortbread!

Bring in the new year like a Scotsman! With this Shortbread that is, not the getting drunk and fighting in the street nonsense. So easy with only three ingredients it's actually hard not to make.

So come, be Scottish with me... I command it.

You will need

125 grams of unsalted butter (at room temperature)
60 grams of caster sugar
175 grams of plain flour

Add some extra sugar for sprinkling.

See! Not much at all actually. This is simple with three ingredients. Well four if you count sheer joy as an ingredient!

To make

Oh sweet biscuit of the Highlands. My mouth beckons ye with yer sweet and honest goodness. - Robert Burns

So, cream your butter in a bowl with the sugar

From looking like this

To this

Bang in your flour

Then mash it together with a stiff hand like your dancing with a Highland lassie

Till it looks like this

Now sprinkle a little flour on your work surface and rub some on your rolling pin to avoid it sticking and roll it out to a 1 centimetre thickness and then cut it into fingers

You can make little round shapes with the off cuts. Line a baking tray with baking paper and lay them out on it

Now sprinkle generously with some more sugar

Wallop them in the oven at 180 degrees for fifteen minutes. Take them out and cool on a rack.

Phwoar, look at the sheer Scottishness of them!!

Now eat them, there will be plenty more New Year's.. it you can make more!!

Cor they are lovely!!

Note to all non Scottish people. If you make these and come to Scotland you can present them at passport control and be whisked through like a VIP!!