
Ingredients
- 1/4 cinnamon stick
- 100 g Caster sugar
- 2 vanilla pods
- 750 g flour
- 250 g Icing sugar
- 5 g salt
- 500 g Butter
- 40 g egg yolk
Servings:
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180˚C.
- Place the cinnamon stick in a food processor and grind into a fine powder.
- Add the caster sugar to the mixer and blend again
- Score down the vanilla pod and remove the seeds. Add both the pod and the seeds to the sugar mix and store until ready to use
- sift the flour into the icing sugar, add the salt and mix together.
- Mix in the softened butter and add the beaten egg yolk.
- Roll out the mix onto a floured surface until 1/2cm thick
- Cut the shortbread into 8cm by 3cm rectangular fingers and place in the oven.
- Cook until browned at the edges, or 10 minutes approximately
- Remove the shortbread from the oven and allow to briefly cool on the cooling rack.
- Sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar and serve
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