Orange Shortbread

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• 12¾ g caster sugar
• 12¾ g butter
• ¼ orange zest (tangerines)

• whisk
• bowl

Preheat your oven to 120C and then cream the butter, sugar and orange zest into a large bowl.

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• 15⅝ g all-purpose flour
• ¼ orange juice (tangerines)

• bowl

Add flour into the large mixing bowl, and create breadcrumbs. Once these are made, add the freshly squeezed tangerine juice and mix again. This should create the shortbread dough.

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• rolling pin

Add a light wash of flour over your counter top and roll out your dough to 1/4 inches thick. The get any style cookie cutter you own and start pressing the shape into the dough.

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• baking tray

Place the shapes onto a baking tray lined with tin foil, and then place in the oven to bake for 45 minutes (120C).

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Once your 45 minutes are up, remove your tray from the oven and leave them to cool. Please feel free to decorate your shortbread in any way you’d like. I, personally, have used a light dusting of sugar, however, other examples are buttercream, meted chocolate etc.

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Now sit back, relax, and enjoy your beautiful creations.

Enjoy your meal!