Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies are all the goodness of melt-in-your-mouth shortbread combined with a little bit of chocolate. Your family will love these easy tasty cookies!
These cookies look so fancy and impressive, but guess what? They only require a handful of ingredients and are super easy to make. You’ve got to love that! On top of all that, they are also super tasty. These are great for a tea party, baby shower, brunch, or just for a regular old treat. We’ve dipped these cookies in melted chocolate, but you also don’t have to dip them in chocolate at all. It adds a fun and fancy finishing touch and a higher chocolate content, but you can also have these cookies plain as well.
Do I need a stand mixer to make Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies
You will need either a hand mixer or a stand mixer for this recipe to adequate beat together the butter and powdered sugar.
Chocolate Chips:
We love adding chocolate chips to our shortbread cookies, but you can always make a plain shortbread cookie without them.
Can I use cookie cutters?
These cookies hold their shape which means you can cut them in squares or rectangles as shown, or you can use cookie cutters to come up with your own shape. Smaller cookie cutters may require a slightly shorter cooking time so be sure to watch them closely.
Storage Instructions:
Store your cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.
If you like this recipe, you may be interested in these other delicious cookie recipes:
- Nutella Stuffed Churro Cookies
- Easy Pecan Sandies
- Chocolate Kiss Cookies
- The Ultimate Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookie
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Delicious! Came out perfectly sweet and crisp. I will make again.
I can’t wait to make this one! Her recipes are super easy to follow and soooo delicious!
Love this recipe. The technique of placing the crumbly dough in a bag makes quick work of the roll out. I may have kept them in the frig too long (just over 2 hrs) as they were difficult to cut. Great for the holiday cookie sharing. Thank you.
Made these yesterday and my husband said this recipe is a KEEPER!! I did not add the mini chocolate chips. I did however, dip half of my cookies in the melted chocolate and left some cookies just plain. I like the ones with the melted chocolate ends better. This recipe is super simple and I feel like such a success in the kitchen. Thank you Rachel for helping me feel so confident.
I made these exactly according to the recipe. Refrigerated for 2 hrs. They fell apart. Put them back together and froze for an 1 hour. They fell apart again. What did I do wrong? I had high hopes got this recipe! 😢
Try them again. Not to make you feel bad 🙂 but I am not a baker and it worked for me. The only problem I had was I was not very good at cutting them evenly so I had a bunch of mis-shaped and sized cookies. I am trying again today think I have a better strategy for cutting.
My entire family and friends absolutely love these cookies!
Thank you so much😀
Yummy but I think it really needs to be noted in the recipe to use salted butter OR to add 1/4 tsp salt.
I always use unsalted butter and I didn’t realize there was no salt until the dough was made, so I did try to add it but mixing salt into formed dough meant some cookies came out saltier than others…
Looks like a great & easy recipe!! Can cookies be made in advance for upcoming holidays?
Can these be frozen? Could you use something else or grease the pan instead of using parchment paper. I cannot use that in a toaster oven and my regular oven is broken right now.
Yes you can just butter a pan.
Best choc-chip shortbread cookies, I’ve ever made. They are so yummy! Thank you for sharing this amazing recipe.