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Cheddar Cheese Shortbread (3-Ingredient)

Cheddar Cheese Shortbread | Raising Sugar Free Kids - delicious, crumbly, soft, 3-ingredient cheddar cheese shortbread biscuits. A perfect savoury snack, quick to make and incredibly easy. Perfect for #sugarfreefebruary or a family baking session. :) #sugarfree #snacks

Shortbread? Always sweet, right?

Wrong.

Cheddar Cheese Shortbread | Raising Sugar Free Kids - delicious, crumbly, soft, 3-ingredient cheddar cheese shortbread biscuits. A perfect savoury snack, quick to make and incredibly easy. Perfect for #sugarfreefebruary or a family baking session. :) #sugarfree #snacks

Turns out, a savoury version is not just every bit as nice, it’s better. Waaay better.

Cheddar Cheese Shortbread | Raising Sugar Free Kids - delicious, crumbly, soft, 3-ingredient cheddar cheese shortbread biscuits. A perfect savoury snack, quick to make and incredibly easy. Perfect for #sugarfreefebruary or a family baking session. :) #sugarfree #snacks

Soft, crumbly, creamy and oh-so-more-ish. I’m warning you now. It’s hard to stop eating these. They are just so good!

Cheddar Cheese Shortbread | Raising Sugar Free Kids - delicious, crumbly, soft, 3-ingredient cheddar cheese shortbread biscuits. A perfect savoury snack, quick to make and incredibly easy. Perfect for #sugarfreefebruary or a family baking session. :) #sugarfree #snacks

And it gets better…

…they are made with only 3 ingredients (plus salt, and seeds if you want them). 3 easy to find and cheap to buy ingredients. Flour, butter, cheese.

Cheddar Cheese Shortbread | Raising Sugar Free Kids - delicious, crumbly, soft, 3-ingredient cheddar cheese shortbread biscuits. A perfect savoury snack, quick to make and incredibly easy. Perfect for #sugarfreefebruary or a family baking session. :) #sugarfree #snacks

If you have those ingredients on hand, you could be eating these shortbread biscuits in about 25 mins. From now. As a snack, as an after dinner treat, as something to serve people coming round, as a little appetizer before the meal. It works for so many things. And kids love them, too. Making them, and of course, eating them.

Cheddar Cheese Shortbread | Raising Sugar Free Kids - delicious, crumbly, soft, 3-ingredient cheddar cheese shortbread biscuits. A perfect savoury snack, quick to make and incredibly easy. Perfect for #sugarfreefebruary or a family baking session. :) #sugarfree #snacks

So what are you waiting for? 😉

Cheddar Cheese Shortbread
Prep Time
3 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
23 mins
 

These delicious savoury shortbread biscuits are crumbly, soft and very more-ish. They are made in about 20-25 mins with just 3 ingredients. And they are so easy they are perfect for a spot of family baking with little ones.

Course: Appetizer, Autumn, Bonfire Night, Celebration, Christmas, Easter, Entertaining, Entree, Fall, Halloween, Holiday, New Years, Snack, Snacks, Starter, Thanksgiving, Treat, Vegetarian, Winter
Servings: 30 shortbread biscuits
Author: Raising Sugar Free Kids
Ingredients
  • 75 g (heaped 1/2 cup) plain (all-purpose) or self-raising flour
  • 75 g (heaped 1/2 cup) spelt or wholewheat flour (or more plain flour, but it's tastier with wholegrain)
  • 1 tsp baking powder, if not using self-raising flour)
  • 110 g (1 stick) unsalted butter, cold and cubed
  • 75 g (3/4 cup) grated Cheddar (or use Parmesan or another hard cheese)
  • handful of seeds (I use a mix of chia, sesame and caraway), optional
  • pinch of salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 190C/350F/gas 5. Blitz the flours, baking powder (if using), cubed butter and about 2/3 of the cheese in a food processor until it forms a dough. You may need to add 1-2 tbsp milk or water to help it come together. Roll out the dough on a floured surface to about 1cm (1/2") thick and cut out small 5cm (2") circles with a cookie cutter. Place on a lined baking tray and sprinkle with the leftover cheese (and some salt and seeds if using), then bake for 15-20 mins, until golden brown and hardened. Allow to cool completely before serving.

Cheddar Cheese Shortbread | Raising Sugar Free Kids - delicious, crumbly, soft, 3-ingredient cheddar cheese shortbread biscuits. A perfect savoury snack, quick to make and incredibly easy. Perfect for #sugarfreefebruary or a family baking session. :) #sugarfree #snacks

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10 Comments

    1. Hi Alice, all you would need to do is mix the flours and baking powder in a large mixing bowl and rub the cold butter into it with clean fingers until it the mixture was a mix of small and large “crumbs” with all the butter covered well in flour. Then you would mix in the cheese, and add a few drops of water or milk to help the mixture come together to form a soft but not sticky dough, then roll out and bake as per the instructions. 🙂

  1. Can these be baked in advance, frozen the day of, and then served a few days later?
    Also…can Bergeron cheese be used or is it too mild?

    1. Hi Monika, I haven’t tried freezing them baked. If I were you, I would freeze the cut out dough on the baking trays and just pop them straight into the oven to bake from frozen when you need them. Just add a couple of mins to the cooking time. Any hard cheese would work, although if it is mild in flavour, you may like to add a little more to make sure the flavour comes through. 🙂

      1. If I bake them Friday night – do you think they will still be good Saturday morning?
        And thank you for replying.

        1. They should be, yes. They will get softer within a few days, but keep them in an airtight container at room temperature and they should be fine for 2-3 days. 🙂 Hope you enjoy them, we love this recipe in our house!

  2. If I bake them Thursday night – do you think they will still be good Saturday morning?
    And thank you for replying.

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