It’s the Christmas season and my favorite thing to do is to make Christmas cookies with my kids.
We have been baking up a storm lately and I am so excited to share some of our favorite cookies with you this week. This week on the blog, we will have a Christmas cookie extravaganza!
To start with, these chocolate dipped shortbread cookies are not only rich and delicious, but they are a lot of fun to make!
First, you bake them in a pan. Then you will cut them into pieces and bake them again on a cookie sheet. After they have cooled, you will dip them in chocolate and sprinkle them up all pretty.
Your kids will have so much fun dipping the cookies in the chocolate and making them all pretty with sprinkles. And baking with your kids is always more fun (and less messy) when you wear your Flirty Aprons.
If you follow my blog regularly, you have probably seen pictures of my kids wearing their Flirty Aprons before. I’m telling you, they go nuts whenever I tell them that we are going to bake cookies. They run and grab their aprons and beg me to help them put it on.
And Flirty Apron has so many different styles that you are sure to find one that perfectly matches the personality of you or your child.
My youngest loves goofy things so so the phrase “My Cape is on Backwards” was absolutely perfect for him. My older boy loves all things BBQ so “BBQ Prince”
worked great for him. My daughter, loving all things frosted went crazy over this “cupcake”
apron.
Just check out the Flirty Apron site for the perfect apron for you, your kids, husband or friend. These aprons make perfect gifts for the holiday season!
These Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Cookies just speak “Christmas” to me. They have a rich chocolatey flavor. They are very tender and I love the holiday nonpareils sprinkled on top. The texture works perfect with the smooth and creamy chocolate coating!
The Christmas season sure doesn’t last long. So grab your kids, your aprons and your mixing bowls and get baking! And come back and see us all this week for some more Christmas cookie inspiration! 🙂
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Ingredients
- 1 c. butter, softened
- 1/2 c. sugar
- 1 t. vanilla
- 3 oz. semi sweet baking chocolate, melted (use a quality chocolate like Ghirardelli)
- 2 c. flour
- 4 oz of semi sweet baking chocolate (use a quality chocolate like Ghirardelli)
- 1 t. vegetable oil
- sprinkles like nonpareils
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a 9 inch baking pan with foil and spray with baking spray.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine butter and sugar until smooth. Add the vanilla and melted chocolate and continue mixing until smooth. Add the flour in three additions and mix just until combined.
- Spread the batter evenly in the pan and bake for forty minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for at least ten minutes.
- Slice the cookies into 20 rectangles. Place on a cookie sheet lined with a silpat or parchment paper and bake another ten minutes.
- Remove from the oven and remove the cookies to a cookie rack to fully cool.
- Prepare the chocolate coating by melting the chocolate in a microwave in 40 second intervals until melted and stir in the oil.
- Dip each cookie a third of the way into the chocolate mixture, lay on a sheet of waxed paper and immediately sprinkle with nonpareils or other decorations. Allow the cookies to rest until the chocolate is fully set. About twenty minutes.
- Serve and enjoy.
Try these other cookie recipes:
Peppermint Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars
I love seeing all the baking recipes everyone comes up with this time of the year! This shortbread! It looks so chocolatey and wonderful!
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Thank you Ashley! Christmas baking is SO much fun!! 🙂
These cookies look absolutely fantastic!!
Jocelyn (Grandbaby cakes) recently posted…Classic Chicken Pot Pie
Thank you Jocelyn! 🙂
These cookies look SO delicious! I love traditional shortbread and sugar cookies, but add chocolate and I’m even more in heaven! 🙂
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I’m the same way Marcie. Thanks!! 🙂
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Yay for the Christmas cookie extravaganza! Shortbread cookies are a must around the holidays and I love that you made a chocolate dipped version. They look so delicious and I love that your kiddos all get so involved with baking too 🙂
Thank you Kelly! I love it when my kids join me in the kitchen!!
What great looking shortbread cookies! I love your cute little helpers! Where can I get a few of those? A few extra hands are so helpful! 🙂
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Thanks Kristi! It is fun to have my little helpers!! It’s getting to the point where I don’t have to make my own cookies anymore because they can make them all by themselves! 🙂
These shortbread cookies look incredibly delicious.. and festive too! Perfect for Christmas!
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Thanks so much Thalia! 🙂
Renee recently posted…Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Cookies
Your little cookie helpers are beyond adorable! And these cookies? Well, fat pants here I come—seriously these look fabulous, Renee! Pinned. 😀
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“Fat pants”, ha, ha!!! I had to dig mine out too Sarah! “Tis the season” and all!! 🙂 Thanks for the pin girl!! 🙂
Renee recently posted…Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Cookies
Your kids are just the cutest, Renee! And I’m loving this shortbread cookies. I’ve never actually made them before, can you believe it? Your chocolate dipped ones sound like the perfect recipe to start out with. So gorgeous! Pinned!
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I love shortbread cookies, but these are extra special! Love that they are chocolate and also dipped in chocolate! I can tell your little helpers are having so much fun! Pinned!
Mira recently posted…Butternut Squash, Spinach and Bacon Quiche
Oh these are just darling! I don’t do shortbread cookies often, but that probably needs to change!
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Those are so cute. And chocolate shortbread dipped in chocolate?! Yum!
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I adore these!!! They’re so cute with the chocolate and sprinkles, and such a fun activity for kids to help with.
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Shortbread that is dipped in chocolate… yes yes yes yes! I want a whole bunch of these!
I also love baking with my kids during the Christmas holidays!!! I can’t wait until they are old enough to experiment themselves in the kitchen and come up with their own creations! 🙂 your kids are too cute! and love those aprons!
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wow! ok so I think I only need 2 words to describe these… Amazing and CHOCOLATE! these looks delicious!
bahaha! That apron! “My cape is on backwards” I love it! I love these cookies too! They look delicious! chocolate, chocolate and sprinkles! #winning
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