Cute-as and beautifully buttery, these shortbread buttons are perfectly tailored for Christmas pressies. Although these may look difficult to make, you don’t need any fancy equipment. All you need are cookie cutters to stamp out the rounds and a chopstick to make two or four holes to create the buttonholes.
Ingredients
Method
Preheat oven to 160°C. Line an oven tray with baking paper. Put butter, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl and beat with an electric hand mixer until light and creamy. Sift flours over butter mixture. Stir until well combined and a soft dough forms. Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth.
Roll out dough, between 2 sheets of baking paper, until 5mm thick. Using a 5cm round cutter, cut rounds from dough. Press remaining dough together, re-roll and cut out enough shapes to make 24 in total. Transfer rounds to prepared tray, spacing 2cm apart.
Using a chopstick, make 2-4 small holes in centre of each biscuit to make ‘buttons’. You can also use a 4cm cutter to mark a circle 5mm in from edge, taking care not to cut too deeply into dough.
Bake biscuits for 15 minutes or until firm to touch. Cool biscuits completely on tray. Serve or wrap as gifts.
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