Name: Shortbread | Shortbread Cookies | Eggless Shortbread Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 145 min
Ingredients: 150 grams Soft Unsalted Butter; ½ cup Powdered sugar ((100 grams)); 1 tsp Vanilla Extract; 1¾ cup All Purpose flour / Maida ((210 grams)); ⅛ tsp Salt; 2 cups Dark Chocolate Chips; ¼ cup Sprinkles; 3 tbsp Ground Cinnamon; 3/4 cup Sugar; ½ batch Shortbread cookie dough; ½ batch Shortbread cookie dough; 1½ cup Mixed Nuts ((chopped)); ½ batch Shortbread cookie dough; 1 tbsp Orange Zest; 1 cup Dried Cranberries

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. About Shortbread Cookies

2. Shortbread Variations

3. 📖 Recipe

4. Variation 1: Chocolate Dipping Shortbread Cookie Recipe

5. Variation 2: Cinnamon Sugar Shortbread Bars

6. Variation 3: Shortbread Cookies with Nuts Recipe

7. Variation 4: Mini Shortbread Cookies Recipe

8. Variation 5: Orange Cranberry Slice and Bake Cookies

9. 📖 Recipe

Shortbread Cookies

These cookies are such an easy recipe to make and enjoy with your family. I love making shortbread cookies because they are so versatile and they hardly take few minutes to cook and bake. You will love it. This can be baked into any shapes and decorated as per your kids wish. Since it is christmas. I used christmas sprinkles to decorate my cookies.

This particular recipe has just three ingredients. but i added vanilla for flavour. You can skip vanilla if you want to or even add some almond extract. I dipped my cookies in chocolate after it is baked, but you can skip it too.

About Shortbread Cookies

Shortbread cookies is delicious buttery and simple cookies which you can make for your little ones. It is very versatile and can be customized to your preference.

Shortbread or shortie is a traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three to four parts plain wheat flour. Unlike many other biscuits and baked goods, shortbread does not contain any leavening, such as baking powder or baking soda. Shortbread is widely associated with Christmas and Hogmanay festivities in Scotland, and some Scottish brands are exported around the world.

What i did is i made a double batch of this dough and made a variety of cookies just to show you the different versions.

How to Make Shortbread Cookie Dough at Home

1)take soft butter in a bowl

2)add powdered sugar

3)cream this really well

4)add salt

5)add vanilla

6)mix till creamy

7)add flour

8)mix well to form a soft dough

9)place the dough in plastic wrap

10)cover it well and pop it in fridge for 1 hour. shortbread cookie dough is done.

Ingredients to Make Shortbread

All Purpose Flour / Maida - You can use flour or wheat flour in the cookie.
Sugar - Use powdered sugar in the cookie dough.
Unsalted Butter - use soft butter in your cookie dough.
Vanilla Essence - use proper vanilla in cookie dough.
Salt - adding a pinch of salt will adds so much taste.

How to Make Shortbread Cookies

Take butter, sugar in a bowl and cream till fluffy. Add in vanilla, salt and mix well. Add in flour and mix well to form a dough. Wrap this in cling wrap and chill in fridge for 1 hour.
Now roll this dough between two sheets of parchment paper or cling wrap. Use cookie cutter to cut out shapes. Pop this cut cookies in fridge for 15 mins.
Preheat oven to 180 degree C / 350 degree F.
Now arrange it in a baking pan lined with parchment and bake for 12 to 15 mins depending on the thickness of the rolled cookies.
The cookies should get light golden around the edges.
Now remove from oven and let it cool for 5 mins.
Remove and cool it on a wire rack completely.
Store in an airtight container.

Shortbread Variations

Scottish Shortbread: Use 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour and ½ cup white rice flour.
Vanilla Bean Shortbread: Split a vanilla bean in half lengthwise and use the back of a knife to scrape out the pulp. Pulse the pulp into the flour-sugar mixture before adding butter. Or add up to 1 teaspoon vanilla extract with the butter.
Citrus Shortbread: Add 1 to 1 ½ teaspoons finely grated lemon, lime or orange zest with the flour. Add up to 1 teaspoon orange blossom water with the butter if desired. These are classic with poppy seeds.
Nut Shortbread: Grind ½ cup toasted nuts in the food processor with the flour before combining with remaining ingredients.
Toffee Pecan Shortbread - add ½ cup toffee bits and 1 cup chopped toasted pecan to the dough.

Shortbread Flavour Ideas

📖 Recipe

Variation 1: Chocolate Dipping Shortbread Cookie Recipe

1)Take your cookie dough.

2)place a plastic sheet on top

3)roll it out

4)remove the wrap

5)Cut using cookie cutters

6)Like this

7)Cut strips

8)Place on a baking sheet and chill for 10 mins in fridge

9)Pop into the oven and bake

10)Take chocolate chips in a sauce pan

11)melt it gently

12)Bake cookies

13) Once cookies are cooled. Coat in chocolate

14)Decorate as per wish

15)Let it set

16)Serve

Variation 2: Cinnamon Sugar Shortbread Bars

This cinnamon sugar shortbread bars is a delicious buttery and melt in mouth cookie bar which taste so delicious.

Pictorial:

Shortbread dough

Take the dough and place it in a pan

flatten it gently

take sugar in a bowl

add cinnamon

mix well

sprinkle this all over the dough

bake them

Serve

Variation 3: Shortbread Cookies with Nuts Recipe

This nutty shortbread cookies with nuts which taste so delicious and filling with toasted nuts. I added nuts in this and made this in a muffin pan. So you get perfectly shaped cookies.

Pictorial:

mix well to form a soft dough

chop your nuts

sprinkle it in the bottom of muffin pan

take a small portion of dough

place it over the nuts

press it evenly

like this

bake till light golden on top

cool for few mins and unmould

enjoy

Variation 4: Mini Shortbread Cookies Recipe

These eggless shortbread cookies with step by step pictures. I used mini cookie cutters to shape this. This cookies is plain and simple. You can use any shape cookie cutter to cut out cookies. You can even dip the cookies in melted chocolate and serve.