Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Un Kurabiyesi/Turkish Shortbread Cookies

Un Kurabiyesi, extremely delicious melt in mouth Shortbread cookies from Turkey. These cookies tastes absolutely fabulous obviously you cant just stop munching these butter loaded cookies. These Deliciously light shortbread cookies are definitely an incredible treat at tea time. These cookies are seriously very easy and quick to make as this cookies calls for simple and basic ingredients. No egg is needed, butter, flour and sugar when combined together and flavored with vanilla extract makes this extremely addictive cookies. Some recipes of Un Kurabiyesi calls for baking powder and some may not, obviously i baked mine without baking powder. Traditionally this cookies are rolled as round shaped cookies or else rolled as long ropes which is later sliced as small sized cookies. Since i dont want to break my head with shaping, i just went with the round shaped ones. Dont get surprised if you are able to see Un Kurabiyesi in different shapes.

Un Kurabiyesi, Turkish Shortbread biscuits

However shaping cookies doesnt matter na. Coming to this Un Kurabiyesi, everyone at home just enjoyed munching these buttery cookies for their snacks. Trust me i baked two batches of this cookies and they just get vanished within an hour as they were dangerouly addictive. I baked again for Hubby dear as he was working on that day. If you are planning to bake this Turkish shortbread cookies just prepare them in huge batch else you will regret latter. Very easy to prepare, you can prepare this cookie dough easily with less efforts. You might have noticed that am running a month of blogging marathon with A-Z baking around the world as theme. And this Un Kurabiyesi is going to be a part of this event.

Turkish Shortbread Cookies, Un Kurabiyesi

Recipe Source: Here
200grams Butter (room temperature)
1/2cup Powdered sugar
2cups Flour
1tsp Vanilla extract
Powdered sugar(for dusting/coating)

Beat the sugar, vanilla extract with butter until the mixture turns creamy.

Now add the flour and beat again until everything gets well mixed.

Knead the dough and pinch medium sized balls from the dough. Roll it well and place them on a baking sheet lined over a baking tray.

Preheat the oven to 350F and bake for 15-20minutes.

Un Kurabiyesi, Turkish Shortbread Cookies

Either dust the cookies with powdered sugar once they comes out of the oven or else let them cool a bit, remove from the baking sheet and roll them well in powdered sugar.

Arrange in air-tightened box and enjoy.
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12 comments:

vaishali sabnani said... Reply To This Comment

Priya , these butter loaded cookies look fantastic ! Rich me not ! Ha ha ... I feel the minute I touch them they will melt ! Absolutely stunning , I might make a batch today itself .

Mayuri Patel said... Reply To This Comment

Priya these cookies look super soft and so tempting. I'm enjoying following this baking marathon.

Sowmya :) said... Reply To This Comment

The cookies look absolutely melt in your mouth! So tempting...wish I could have some!

Srividhya said... Reply To This Comment

These shortbreads sure does look like melt in your mouth cookies... Great share Priya.

Namratha said... Reply To This Comment

Sometimes the simplest of bakes are the most delicious! Good one.

Harini R said... Reply To This Comment

These look super tempting and needless to say buttery !

cookingwithsapana said... Reply To This Comment

OMG the shortbread looks irresistible. They have got a perfect shape and I am sure must have tasted fabulous.

Srivalli said... Reply To This Comment

Those cookies are so sinful Priya, when mine was not done on time, I was almost tempted to make this..will surely make it sometime soon..

Pavani said... Reply To This Comment

Very interesting cookies Priya. They sound quick and easy to make.

Sandhya Ramakrishnan said... Reply To This Comment

Shortbreads from any country works great with kids and adults alike and everyone just loves to munch on few. I love butter cookies over anything else in this world and I am tempted to taste some!

Sharmila kingsly said... Reply To This Comment

simply delicious cookies!!

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

cute looking hot cross buns. small and sweet.