Vanilla shortbread dough

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Between 16 - 44 biscuits, depending on recipe

Source

Ingredients

325g plain flour

200g chilled salted butter

125g/4½oz golden caster sugar

2 tsp good-quality vanilla extract

2 large free range egg yolks

Method

Tip the flour into a food processor. Cut the butter into small pieces and drop them into the bowl, then whizz until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs.

Add the sugar, vanilla and egg yolks and whizz to a small dough.