Recipe: Rosemary and Vanilla Sugar Shortbread

Some confessions:

1. My family and I like to stick to traditional recipes, particularly the good ol' shortbread they disappear faster than we like to admit) and 2. I have always wondered why people put herbs in sweet recipes.

Yet here I am, writing to you about my recent adventures in the kitchen - and yes, I put herbs on shortbread. We'd had normal shortbread earlier this week, so I wanted to change things around a little. So after cutting out the shortbread shapes, I dipped them in sugar, and thought about the current series of the Great British Bake Off and questioned 'what would the bakers do?'

Rosemary seemed like the best option, and I can assure you they disappeared just as fast as traditional shortbread in my house! Enjoy~

INGREDIENTS:

250g plain flour, 75g caster sugar, 175g margarine, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, demerara sugar and dried rosemary to decorate.

METHOD:

• Pre-heat the oven to 160C (150C fan assisted).
• Stir together the flour and caster sugar then rub in the butter.
• Mix in the vanilla extract and knead well to form a smooth dough.
• Roll out the dough on a floured surface and cut out your shortbread shapes.
• Pour some demerara sugar into a dish and roll the edges of each shortbread into the sugar.
• Place on a baking tray, prick the centres with a fork then sprinkle with  rosemary and a little extra sugar.

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