How to Make Perfect My Mum's Simple Shortbread

My Mum's Simple Shortbread.

You can have My Mum's Simple Shortbread using 4 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of My Mum's Simple Shortbread

1. Prepare 4 oz of soft butter.
2. You need 2 oz of caster sugar.
3. You need 4 oz of plain flour.
4. It's 2 oz of cornflour.

My Mum's Simple Shortbread instructions

1. preheat your oven to 160°C.
2. Cream the butter and then beat in the sugar until smooth.
3. Add in the flour and cornflour (sifting it first gives a smoother texture) and mix gently until a dough is formed.
4. Form the dough into a ball and knead it lightly.
5. Press the dough into a sandwich tin and smooth it out the palms of your hands, prick all ovdr the top with a fork.
6. Bake for 20-25 minutes (now this is the hard part, it is very difficult to judge when it's done, it should be a light golden brown colour. if you press your finger into it the mark should remain in it. Don't worry if it doesn't like right because it probably is!!).
7. Allow it to sit in the tray for 5 minutes then gently cut it into squares or fingers and transfer it on to a wire wrack..
8. Sprinkle the top with caster sugar, to me, icing ruins it because it makes the shortbread very soggy and it's nice plain.