Austrian Raspberry/Blueberry Shortbread
- 7 ounces butter, slightly softened
- 2 egg yolks
- 34 cup granulated sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 12 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 12 cup fresh raspberry
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- confectioners' sugar, for dusting
- Cream the butter in a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or using a hand mixer) until soft and fluffy.
- Add the egg yolks and vanilla and mix well.
- Mix the granulated sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt together.
- Add to the butter and egg yolk mixture and mix just until incorporated and the dough starts to come together.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface and form into two balls.
- Wrap each ball in plastic wrap and freeze at least 2 hours or overnight (or as long as a month, if you like).
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Lightly grease a 8x8 or 9x9 square baking pan or a 10-inch tart pan with removable bottom.
- (I use Baker's Joy spray).
- Remove one ball of dough from the freezer and coarsely grate it by hand or with the grating disk in a food processor into the bottom of the greased baking pan (or tart pan).
- Make sure the surface is covered evenly with shreds of dough.
- Gently mix the blueberries, raspberries and the lemon juice in a medium bowl.
- Mix sugar, flour, lemon zest in a small bowl until combined, then add to blueberry/raspberry mixture and mix gently with your hand to coat the berries with the flour mixture.
- Cover the bottom layer of dough with the blueberry mixture as evenly as possible, gently pressing the berries into the dough.
- Remove the remaining dough from the freezer and coarsely grate it over the entire surface.
- (I grate this second ball of dough onto a piece of plastic wrap, then sprinkle over the berries.
- ).
- Place in oven and cover lightly with foil, bake for 20 minutes, then remove foil.
- Continue baking until lightly golden brown and the center no longer wiggles, about 20-30 minutes longer.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool.
- After the shortbread is cooled, sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired or drizzle with lemon glaze.
- For lemon glaze, mix 1/2 cup powdered sugar with 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
- Add enough milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, to thin out to thick drizzling consistency.
- Cool on a wire rack, then cut in the pan with a serrated knife.
- Chilling the pan in the fridge makes it a lot easier to get clean cuts.
- Adapted from Butter Sugar Flour Eggs.
butter, egg yolks, sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla, fresh blueberries, fresh raspberry, lemon juice, lemon zest, flour, sugar, confectioners
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/austrian-raspberry-blueberry-shortbread-459168 (may not work)