Shortbread Cookies with White Chocolate Icing
These shortbread cookies are melt in your mouth delicious, I promise you’ll never want to make another shortbread cookie again! They are topped with white chocolate buttercream icing and pipped into sweet little roses. This recipe makes a lot of cookies perfect for a party or to freeze for later.
- Prep Time: 45 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour 5 mins
- Yield: 8 dozen 1x
- Category: Cookies
- Cuisine: British
Ingredients
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Shortbread
- 1 pound unsalted butter
- 4 cups all purpose flour
- 2/3 cup instant sugar (also known as fruit sugar)
White chocolate butter cream icing
- 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 cups icing (powdered) sugar
- 1.5 oz white chocolate, melted
- 1 Tablespoons whipping cream (can substitute for full milk)
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 drops red food colouring
Instructions
- Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a stand mixer, cream butter and instant sugar together until light and fluffy. Add flour one cup at a time until well incorporated.
- Separate dough into 3 sections; flatten into discs, wrap in plastic and chill for 20 – 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 300ËšF.
- Meanwhile make your icing.
- In a stand mixer with the whisk attachment, mix all ingredients together until light and fluffy. Set aside.
- On a prepared surface, roll out dough 1/4 inch – 1/2 inch thick (the thicker the better).
- Using a fluted or round cookie cutter, cut out shapes and place 1- 2 inch apart on your prepared cookie sheet (don’t overcrowd or they will have a hard time baking).
- Bake for 15 – 20 minutes or until the bottoms start to turn lightly brown, remove from cookie sheet and cool on a cooling rack.
- Once the cookies are completely cooled, pipe icing in rose shapes (see video above to learn how).
Notes
Let cookies sit out for 6 to 12 hours before packing into a container. The tops need to firm up before handling.
Store in an air tight container. They also freeze very well!
You can easily half the recipe too.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 107
- Sugar: 5.8g
- Sodium: 38mg
- Fat: 6.7g
- Saturated Fat: 4.2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 11.2g
- Fiber: 0.2g
- Protein: 0.9g
- Cholesterol: 17mg
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