Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

I love shortbread cookies. These easy and delicious Chocolate Shortbread Cookies are wonderful right out of the oven, dipped in chocolate, slathered with butter cream frosting, or crumbled up and made into a crust for a cheesecake or tart. If you’re a shortbread fan, give these cookies a try – you’re sure to be delighted with them.

Shortbread cookies are a drier version of sugar cookies. For starters, there is no egg in shortbread. The butter fat is all that is used to bind the flour and sugar. There is also no leavener. Shortbread won’t puff up while baking. In fact, if you are having an issue with your sugar cookies puffing up, omit the baking soda and baking powder from the recipe.

Since you are only relying on the butter for moisture, the batter will be a crumbly consistency. Think pie dough crumbles. Once you push it together, it should hold its shape and make it easy to roll or cut.

I used a Double Sided Crinkled Cookie Cutter to cut out the scalloped design in these cookies. I really only did it for the photos, but they look really pretty if you are serving them or dipping them in chocolate.

I’ve made these  cookies just so I can use them to make a Mousse Cake. That’s right! A Mousse Cake! And it was amazing! I really wasn’t sure what else to call this. It’s not a cheesecake, or torte, or pie, or… uh… I don’t know. So “cake” was the best I could come up with. We can debate what to call it later, but for now, it’s a cake. This is part one of a three part recipe series. You can click over to the Chocolate Mousse Recipe and the Mousse Cake Recipes now.

You can more shortbread cookie recipes at

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