Macadamia Nut Shortbread

This has to be the best shortbread ever. As a Hospice Community Nurse my first ever visit was to an old lady living on her own. Her house was a disaster, but the shortbread she gave me with a cup of tea was amazing. I asked her for the recipe and have been making it regularly ever since. At Xmas I roll and cut it with Xmas cookie cutters, other times I just cut it in fingers.

Ingredients

250 g	Butter, Chopped
110 g	Caster sugar
2 tsp	Vanilla essence/extract
300 g	Standard flour
75 g	Rice flour
½ cup	Macadamia nuts, Ground (Main)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 160C. Lightly grease oven trays.
2. Beat butter, sugar and vanilla together until light and fluffy. Stir in remaining ingredients and knead just until smooth.
3. Roll dough between two sheets of baking paper to 1cm thickness. Cut either with cutters or into fingers. Prick with a fork and sprinkle with extra sugar.
4. Bake 20 minutes or until pale straw coloured. Stand for 10 minutes before transferring to a rack to cool.