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Peanut butter shortbread

  by Jo Pearce
Preperation time: 5 mins
Cooking time: 45 mins
Serves: 5

Recipe Ingredients
225g plain flour;
115g caster sugar, plus extra for sprinkling;
55g smooth peanut butter;
115g butter, cubed, plus extra for greasing.
 
Recipe Method
Sieve the plain flour into a bowl and add the sugar, peanut butter and butter. Rub together with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Then, using your whole hand squeeze mixture together until forms a dough.

Grease and line a 20cm round cake tin. Press the dough into the tin and press down with the back of a spoon. Prick all over with a fork.
Bake for about 45 minutes at 130c fan/ 150c/ gas2.

Whilst warm score the shortbread into 10 wedges and leave to cool completely before removing from the tin. When cold sprinkle with a little caster sugar.

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