Blast from the Past

When we were little, my friend and I used to love Scooby-Doo (bare with me), so much so that we even collected the magazine series that was published as we were growing up. We were discussing this a while ago, when we remembered that we used to make a shortbread recipe from one of the magazines every single time we would see each other, we loved it that much.

For months we've been trying to find the recipe, or one that tasted just as scrummy, just so we can taste it again. However that involved lots of trial and error (and a lot of shortbread)...and we still couldn't find the right recipe. Until one day I was shopping in Tesco and I picked up the free magazine that you can collect from the checkout. I took it home and flicked through it as I always do, scoping out the recipes inside in case there's any ones I want to keep. And I came across a shortcake recipe. I thought I'd give it a try, not thinking anything of it. BUT. We found it! It tasted exactly the same as that recipe my friend and I used to love so much. It's quite sad how happy it made me, but that's what happens when your world literally revolves around baking. It's now my go-to shortbread recipe-my family can't get enough of it!
So here's our favourite shortbread recipe in the whole entire world. I know you're going to love it!

Ingredients

 100g softened unsalted butter
40g sugar (plus 1tbsp extra for dusting)
150g plain flour (plus extra for dusting)

 Method

 Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
Beat together the butter and sugar until smooth (just like you would when making a cake). You can either do this with an electric whisk or just by hand-both are pretty easy.
Mix in the flour to make a dry dough (you might need to add a little milk to help combine the mix properly).
Wrap in cling-film, and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to approximately 5mm thick. Cut out the shortbread into whatever shape you want. Cook on a lined baking tray for 10-12 minutes until golden. Leave to cool on the tray for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Make a cuppa and dunk away!

 Here's the full recipe from the Tesco website, this one includes strawberries and cream to make a summery sandwich!
http://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/strawberry-and-cream-shortcakes.html

 Charley.

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