Flavours of Monash

Kourabiedes (Greek Shortbread)

Author: Anna Angelopoulos

Ingredients:

• 250g Unsalted butter
• 2 Egg yolks
• 4 tbls Icing sugar
• 1 tsp Vanilla sugar
• 1 tbls Ouzo
• ½ cup Crushed roast almonds
• 500g Self-raising flour

Preparation:

• Beat icing sugar and butter until mixed together. Add egg yolks one at a time. Add vanilla sugar, ouzo and almonds. Hastily add the flour, dough should be a little hard not soft.
• Cut dough with pastry cutters to designed shape and bake for approximately 15 minutes or until lightly golden.
• Once cooked, dust with icing sugar.