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Atlassian Bake-off: Nigel shares his super-easy Shortbread Recipe
My Inspiration
I always make Shortbread this time of year, it's a wonderful Christmas treat and can be shaped into Christmas Tree shapes, or just rectangles. I thought a cookie would be easy to turn into the Ace logo, with a bit of chocolate for the swirly bit in the centre of the logo.
...and this is how they turned out.
The Recipe
This is a super-easy recipe for anyone, even if you have never baked before this is a perfect recipe to start your baking journey. You only need 3 ingredients.
- 150g Plain Flour
- 100g Butter (chilled and diced)
- 50g Caster Sugar
The Approach
- Weigh out, and pour all the ingredients into a bowl
- With your fingers crumble the mixture together until it turns into breadcrumbs
- Squeeze together into a dough shape, if it's a bit crumbly don't worry
- Roll it out on a flour covered surface, 5-6mm thick
- Cut out the shapes and place on a baking tray
- Sprinkly on some caster sugar and put in the fridge for 20 minutes (this gives you time to clear up the mess you've made so far)
- Heat up the oven 170 degrees centigrade
- Bake 10-15mins, until the Shortbread is a lovely golden colour
- Leave the Shortbread to cool
(optional) Chocolate coating
- Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of simmering water
- Apply to the biscuits, this is the messy fun bit
The Highs
Even if they look a bit scrappy, they taste amazing.
The triangle template I made because I couldn't find a triangle shaped cookie cutter (see video for details)
The Lows
I had an idea for making a second template to shape the chocolate on top of the Shortbread, it worked for the first attempt, but then was a disaster. Agile is about learning by doing, so plan B was devised which was to use a knife to spread the choc into a shape.
The video
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kNLSKD2g-xQhRsJ4ANHsuZMh9w7mSpIn/view?usp=sharing
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