Christmas shortcrust pastry that doesn’t break, an easy recipe, quick and very fragrant but above all, a shortcrust pastry that remains beautifully compact, crumbly and without deforming or breaking during baking. Every year I always make lots of Christmas cookies, simple, chocolate, and decorated ones, and besides using the fabulous butter shortcrust pastry, which you can find the recipe here, I make these fabulous treats with this Christmas shortcrust pastry that is a guaranteed success. You can flavor this Christmas shortcrust pastry as you like, especially if you want to make cookies that need double baking like meringue cookies, this shortcrust pastry is perfect, I assure you it will remain crumbly and not deformed. Try one of these fabulous shortcrust pastries and I’m sure you won’t leave them anymore. Now let’s see what we need and how to prepare the Christmas shortcrust pastry that doesn’t break.
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- Cost: Economical
- Rest time: 20 Minutes
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 20
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients
MAKES ABOUT 20 COOKIES
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 tbsp powdered sugar
- 6 1/3 tbsp cold butter
- 1 egg yolk
- flavoring of choice
Steps
PREPARATION
Place the cold butter cut into pieces in a bowl, add the flour and sugar, and start to rub together with your hands. You can also use a mixer. When everything is crumbly, add the egg yolk and your chosen flavoring to the bowl and start kneading. Form a nice dough ball, cover it with plastic wrap and let it rest in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. After resting, use the shortcrust pastry to prepare delicious Christmas cookies.
