SHORTBREAD COOKIES

Preheat your oven to 150 deg C. Grease and line 2 baking trays . Use an electric mixer to beat together 2/3rds of a cup of castor sugar with 250gm of room temp butter / marg until light and fluffy . Now add 2 cups of plain flour mixed with 4 tbs of rice flour and mix till well combined . At this point 1 added 2 tbs of crushed peanuts . Divide the dough in half and roll each half out between 2 sheets of baking paper to 3 cm thickness . Place the rolled dough on the baking paper in the refrigerator to chill about 10 minutes . Remove the dough from the refrigerator and using a cookie cutter cut out rounds and place on prepared baking trays . Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes or until pale golden . Leave on trays for 5 minutes and then using a spatula remove cookies to a cooling rack .