STRAWBERRY SHORTBREAD
STRAWBERRY SHORTBREAD
STRAWBERRY SHORTBREAD

Ingredients
  • 100g/3½oz butter
  • 100g/3½oz plain flour
  • plus extra for dusting
  • 55g/2oz icing sugar
  • 1 free-range egg yolk
  • 150ml/¼ pint double cream
  • 2 tbsp icing sugar
  • plus extra for dusting
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • seeds scraped out
  • 55g/2oz strawberries
  • hulled and chopped
  • plus a few left whole
  • to garnish
Directions
  • Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5.
  • For the shortbread
  • place the butter
  • flour
  • icing sugar and egg yolk into a food processor and pulse until the mixture comes together as a dough.
  • Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and roll out to 0.5cm/¼in thick. Use a pastry cutter to cut rounds out of the dough and place onto a non-stick baking sheet.
  • Transfer to the oven and bake for 8-10 minutes
  • or until lightly golden-brown. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
  • For the filling
  • place the cream into a large bowl with the icing sugar and vanilla seeds and whisk until soft peaks form when the whisk is removed. Gently fold in the strawberries.
  • To serve
  • use the cream filling to sandwich the shortbread biscuits together and place onto a serving plate. Dust with icing sugar and garnish with extra strawberries.