Sunday, 1st January – walking around the alleys in a supermarket, I came face to face with this famous jar of spread called Nutella, with a special christmassy design and a cookie cutter inside. I needed five good minutes to choose between the four different shapes. The jar is 950g… but impossible to make a decision. Two jars it is. And now here we go with the recipe. For 10 shorbreads (5 double with Nutella).

INGREDIENTS

Shortbread

• 115g of soft butter (take it out of the fridge 15min before starting)
• 210g of flour
• 1 egg yolk
• 70g of icing sugar

PREPARATION

Material: salad bowl, wooden spoon, rounded blade knife, cellophane paper, rolling pin, glass or round recipient of 7cm diameter, Nutella cookie cutter (optional), silicon mat or baking paper, baking tray

Time: Preparation time: 10 minutes / Sitting time: 30 minutes / Baking time: 12 minutes

1. Put all the ingredients in a salad bowl
2. Mix with a wooden spoon, then with your hands until the dough turns into a ball
3. Pack the dough in cellophane paper et put it in the fridge for 30 minutes
4. Preheat the oven at 180°
5. Flour your work surface and spread the dough of a thickness of 4 mm
6. Cut the dough in discs thanks to the glass. Then use the cookie cutter to mark the cookies and press enough to mark them well. Put the biscuits on the baking tray covered with the silicon mat or baking paper. Repeat steps 4,5 and 6 until you used all the dough
7. Bake for 12 minutes
8. Let cool the biscuits. And for the love of good food, you can add Nutella between two biscuits

Bonne dégustation!

The sweet sunday baker tips & tricks

1. Knead the dough from the beginning and be patient, it can take between 5 and 10 minutes until the dough becomes a ball
2. Knead the dough well when it comes out of the fridge which is then very crumbly
3. Make sure the thickness of the dough is of minimum 3 mm to have crunchy shortbread
4. You can use any cookie cutter of course
5. Use preferably a rounded blade knife to put the cookies on the baking tray; first turn around the biscuit before slidding the blade under it