![]() ![]() Some recipes even called for an egg, and while we did try it, I find it unnecessary (I do plan to try it with just a yolk, a la one of my Christmas cookie recipes). Flour, butter and sugar are the foundation of any shortbread biscuit recipe, and it was just about finding the right amount of each. Trust me when I say we tried ALL the combinations and ratios of each ingredient. And so, the Ted Lasso biscuit test kitchen was born, and after many months of testing ingredients and ratios, I’ve developed what we feel is the perfect shortbread biscuit recipe: dense, buttery, soft and not too sweet. It all comes down to the texture you’re wanting in your biscuit…crunchy, a bit soft, or full-on chewy. Shortbread is really a simple recipe, but the ratio of ingredients can really vary from recipe to recipe. I scoured those, and I also went through my grandmother’s old recipe box (as it happens, my Nana was a Scot…cheers, Clan Gunn!). And since soft chewy cookies are my JAM, I just had to find this magical shortbread biscuit recipe.įor a long time, the show didn’t provide an “official” recipe, but many a recipe had begun to pop up on the interwebs. You’ve seen the tartan-covered tins of Walkers shortbread before, right? But what was intriguing to me was that the biscuits Rebecca was eating didn’t seem super crunchy…there was a definite softness to them (and somehow I just can’t imagine someone saying “F# me” for a crunchy cookie?!). Ted’s biscuits are basically Scottish shortbread cookies. So for us, the good outweighs the eff-bombs. Not to mention the show is freaking funny (Roy is a hoot…also the source of most of the bad words). It tackles things like mental health and divorce, but provides us with a character this is so refreshing…he sees the good in people, and tackles life in a constant glass-3/4-full manner. ![]() The show offers so much to viewers, especially right now. We’ve had plenty of conversations about the whens, whys and whats of cursing. The language…look, she’s heard it all and probably worse on the bus. But I have my Apple remote at the ready, and we fast-forward past any, uh, sexy parts. Now before you ask, yes, our teenage daughter watches the show. Thus began the hunt for a shortbread biscuit recipe that looked like Ted’s biscuits. And she made it look like it was the best thing she’d ever tasted, so of course my daughter and I decided we had to make them. Initially it was tortuous for Rebecca, but the biscuits were apparently so damn good that she couldn’t help herself. I don’t want to give too much away for those that haven’t yet watched, so I’ll just say that Ted starts bringing cookies (biscuits, for Brits) to Rebecca every morning as a way to get to know each other, dubbing it “Biscuits with the Boss”. If you’re not an Apple+ subscriber, or you are and for some crazy reason haven’t yet watched the show, Ted Lasso (played by Jason Sudeikis) is an American football coach hired to coach an English soccer team by its new owner, the recently-divorced-from-the-previous-owner Rebecca Welton (played by Hannah Waddingham). My daughter and I have binged the various cooking shows, and we’ve also come across foods in books or other shows that we wanted to try, and so we tried them! In fact I’ll be posting several recipes we’ve discovered along the way, but these little buttery treats had to be the first. Of course another thing that we’ve done a lot of over the past few years is cook and bake. It wasn’t at all what I expected, and you can’t help but love you some Ted (and many of the other characters). ![]() But once I finally watched, I was hooked right at the first episode. I didn’t immediately jump on the Ted Lasso train…I’d figured it would be over-the-top silly like the SNL character, which isn’t my cup of tea (or as Ted says, “hot brown water”). Together time with family has definitely been a silver lining, and finding shows we can all watch together has been fun (in the beginning of it all, my daughter and I snuggled up for Gilmore Girls, so good!). No matter how you slice it (ha!), there ARE a few good things that have happened during the pandemic. If you too found yourself wanting a bite of Ted Lasso’s buttery, chewy, “eff me”-inducing biscuits that he presents to Rebecca each morning, I’ve got you covered! After many months of testing, I’m happy to share what I think is the perfect Ted Lasso shortbread biscuit recipe. ![]()
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