Shortbread

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Ingredients

100g butter

125g self-raising flour

25g ground almonds

50g white sugar + extra for sprinkling

This recipe is enough to make 8 triangles.

They are really easy to make and would make a lovely gift for someone. You can wrap them in baking paper or tissue paper, then put a bow around them and you have a lovely present.

Make sure your butter is at room temperature, so if it is straight out of the fridge, microwave it for 20 seconds so that it is soft; just before the point where it starts to melt.

Put all the ingredients in the mixing bowl and mix until it looks like breadcrumbs. This only takes a couple of minutes. Then wash your hands and get your fingers into the mix and squish together any remaining lumps of butter.

You don’t need to roll out this dough, just tip it into a 20cm round baking tin which has been lined with baking paper. Squash the mixture down with the back of a spoon so that the top is lovely and smooth.

Bake at 190 degrees for 20 minutes or until the shortbread is a light brown colour.

As soon as you take it out of the oven, use the end of a sharp knife to make a cut right down the middle of the shortbread. Then do it across the other way, so that you have made a cross shape. Turn the tin around and do it again the other way, so that you cut each quarter in half. You will end up with 8 pieces of shortbread.