Crisp Dessert Recipes - Shortbread Triangles Recipe

Ingredients

• 75 g/3 oz/3/4 cup plain (all-purpose) flour

• 25 g/1/4 cup rice flour or corn flour (cornstarch)

• A pinch of salt

• 65 g/scant 1/3 cup caster (superfine) sugar

• 100 g/4 oz/1/2 cup butter, diced

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Method:

1. Sift the flours and salt into a bowl. Add 50 g/2 oz/1/4 cup of the sugar and the butter and rub in with the fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

2. Press into an 18 cm/7 in sandwich tin (pan). Prick all over with a fork and mark into eight equal triangles. Chill for 1 hour.

3. Bake in a preheated oven at 150C/300F/gas mark 2 for about 1 hour until a very pale golden brown. Sprinkle with the remaining caster sugar.

4. Leave to cool in the tin, then transfer to a wire rack and break or cut into triangles before serving.