Shortbread cookies recipe - You can call this basic eggless vanilla cookies.
Cookies are rich and buttery in taste. It has crispy yet crumbly texture. Once dipped into melted chocolate, it adds extra goodness.
While making these cookies, use good quality butter and pure vanilla extract to get best flavors.
First, cookie dough is made. Then chilled, rolled and cut using cookie cutter. Then again chill and bake in the oven. This kind of cookies are called Cut out cookies.
If you have dipped the cookies into melted chocolate then they should be stored into refrigerator.
Because melted chocolate won't stay hard at room temperature. To keep the chocolate hard at room temperature, it should be tempered which is very tedious and precision required method.
Dipping into chocolate is optional. It tasted good without chocolate too. But chocolate covered shortbread cookies are my favorite as I love chocolate.
from - Martha Stewart Recipe
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How to make eggless shortbread cookies (Step by Step Recipe with Photos):
1) Take all purpose flour and salt in a bowl. Mix well and keep it aside.
2) Take soften butter in another bowl, beat it with electric mixer or with wire whisk by hand till it gets creamy and smooth.
3) Add powdered sugar.
4) Beat it again till it becomes smooth.
5) Add vanilla extract and mix.
6) Add flour.
7) Mix it just till it gets incorporated.
8) Flatten the dough into a disk.
9) Wrap it with plastic wrap and chill it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour or till firm. If in hurry put it in the freezer. If it is chilled properly then it will be easy to roll.
10) Once chilled, put the dough between parchment papers or wax papers. Instead you can roll on floured surface.
11) Gently roll it into ¼ inch thick circle. If dough becomes soft, again pop it into the freeze for 10 minutes to chill. I put the rolled circle in a cookie sheet and chilled.
12) After it chills, cut into circle or heart or any other shape. Gather remaining scrap and roll it again, If it becomes soft then chill again and then roll, cut the cookies.
13) Arrange the cookies into parchment paper or wax paper lined cookie sheet. Again chill it in the freeze till oven is preheating. Why chill again? because cookies will hold their shape while they bake and it will not spread out.
14) Pre-heat the oven to 325 degree F or 165 degree C for at least 10 minutes.
15) Bake cookies into pre-heated oven for 12-15 minutes.
16) Let the cookies cool in the sheet for 10 minutes. Then remove it to wire rack to cool completely.
17) Once it cools completely, you can dip them in chocolate. It is optional though.
18) In a microwave safe bowl, melt the chocolate. Or use double boiler method to melt the chocolate. Dip the cookies into melted chocolate.
19) Arrange them into cookie sheet. Keep in refrigerator for 10 minutes to harden the chocolate and then serve. While dipping cookies if melted chocolate hardens then again microwave it for few seconds.
Variation:
- You can add lemon zest or orange zest.
- You can add any spice powder e.g ½ teaspoon cardamom powder or cinnamon powder.
- To make it coffee flavored, you can add 1 ½ teaspoons of instant coffee powder.
Serving suggestion: Enjoy it whenever you are craving for it. Make this during Christmas or any other festival.
Shortbread cookies recipe (Eggless vanilla cookies)
Ingredients
For shortbread cookies:
- 1 cup All purpose flour (Maida)
- ⅛ teaspoon Salt
- 1 stick or ½ cup Unsalted butter soften to room temperature
- ¼ cup Powdered sugar (Confectioner’s sugar or icing sugar)
- ½ teaspoon Pure vanilla extract
For chocolate dipping:
- 2 oz or ¼ cup Chocolate chips
Instructions
making shortbread or vanilla cookie dough:
- Take all purpose flour and salt in a bowl. Mix well and keep it aside.
- Take soften butter in another bowl, beat it with electric mixer or with wire whisk by hand till it gets creamy and smooth.
- Add powdered sugar. Beat it again till it becomes smooth.
- Add vanilla extract and mix.
- Add flour. Mix it just till it gets incorporated.
- Flatten the dough into a disk. Wrap it with plastic wrap and chill it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour or till firm. If in hurry put it in the freezer.
- Once chilled, put the dough between parchment papers or wax papers. Instead you can roll on floured surface.
- Gently roll it into ¼ inch thick circle.
- If dough becomes soft, again pop it into the freeze for 10 minutes to chill. I put the rolled circle in a cookie sheet and chilled.
- After it chills, cut into circle or heart or any other shape.
- Arrange the cookies into parchment paper or wax paper lined cookie sheet. Again chill it in the freezer till oven is preheated.
- Pre-heat the oven to 325 degrees F or 165 degrees C for at least 10 minutes.
- Bake cookies into pre-heated oven for 12-15 minutes.
- Let the cookies cool in the sheet for 10 minutes.
- Then remove it to wire rack to cool completely.
- Once it cools completely, you can dip them in chocolate. It is optional though.
Dipping into the chocolate:
- In a microwave safe bowl, melt the chocolate. Or use double boiler method to melt the chocolate.
- Dip the cookies into melted chocolate.
- Arrange them into cookie sheet. Keep in refrigerator for 10 minutes to harden the chocolate and then serve.
- While dipping cookies if melted chocolate hardens then again microwave it for few seconds.
Sumita
Please suggest if I can stamp a letter or name initial before baking ?
Kanan Patel
Sorry, I have not tried, you give it a try and see if it works or not.
Ariel Stephens
These are by far much better than any sugar cookie recipe I have ever used... even ones with eggs.
thank you for your hard work putting this together and sharing
Kanan Patel
Glad to know that you liked the cookies.
Thank you for the feedback
Debrupa
Hi,
Can I use this cookie to do some decorations on top with royal icing ?
thanks
Debrupa
Kanan Patel
yes you can use.
Parul Srivastava
Hi kanan
This is 1 time i m going thru ur blog and u r aimply awesome u made the recipes understandable for everyone. I just have a query that can i use salted butter in place of unsalted one in any of the recipes as i didnt get unsalted butter here where i live
Kanan
Thank you Parul and nice to hear that recipes steps are helpful.
in any baking recipe, you can use salted butter. But if using salted butter and recipes calls for pinch of salt then skip that salt in the recipe.