Do you love to bake? Ok, do you like to bake? Scratch that. Do you like to eat? Then this simple recipe is for you. This creation will please a crowd and is SO easy. Quick, easy, and delicious. My advice, you better make at least batches to get you through to the big day.
Unable to find a shortbread recipe that pleased the picky palates of my girls and myself, and unable to re-create the perfect fluffy shortbread perfection of my mother-in-law, we decided to try and create our very own shortbread recipe. We got busy in the kitchen and mashed together a few of our favourite recipes until we came up with this mouthwatering winner. I proudly present to you the easiest foolproof shortbread cookies of all time. You’re welcome.
Chocolate Chip Shortbread Squares
Ingredients:
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup sifted confectioners’ sugar
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Dash of Baking Powder
- About 5 handfuls of chocolate chips.
Directions:
- In a separate bowl combine the flour with the salt and the dash of baking powder. Set aside.
- In the bowl of your electric mixer cream the butter (about 2 minutes)
- Add the sugar and beat until creamy.
- Stir in the vanilla extract.
- Gently stir in the flour mixture until just incorporated. (we used our hands it was much more fun and effective)
- Flatten the dough into a greased 9×9 glass pan. – yes, just flatten!
- Cover the entire top with chocolate chips and press in with a spoon. Oh yah baby, in my humble opinion you can not have enough chocolate chips!
- Set oven to 300 degrees with the rack in the middle of the oven.
- Bake for between 20 and 25 minutes until the dough is a very light brown.
- Let them sit for a few minutes.
- Cut into squares while still warm.
Enjoy! I promise, these cookies are worth getting out the stretchy pants!
I am off to finish my last minute shopping, wrapping, and lots more making!
Wishing you and yours a Joyful Holiday Season and a very Merry Christmas.
Oh fun! I’ll add it to the list of things to do this weekend when we’re all home 🙂
I wonder why unsalted butter is used, we could only get salted butter and made shortbread with it.
I’ll have to try these. I LOVE Shortbread cookies. I like to add candied cherries and walnuts to them. YUM!
I’ve never made shortbread, but I think I’d like to try this. I wish you had included a picture of the finished product so I could include it in my Pinterest pin – but I bet they were so good they were gone before you had time to take a picture!
Thank you for the recipe and a very Merry Christmas to you and your family!!!
I love my grandma & mom’s shortbread, but nowadays there just isn’t time to spend a full day in the kitchen making cookies. Anything that still tastes great but cuts down on the time sounds good to me!
Have to do some baking this afternoon so I may just have to make up a batch, thanks for the recipe.
That actually sounds very good. I just finished all my shortbread so I will have to save this one for later.
Delicious – thanks for the recipe!
Shortbread cookies were always one of the favourites and they taste like Christmas to me. I like that these have lots of vanilla.
I love simple recipes and I love shortbread so this is one for me. 🙂
this does sound quick. one of my fave cookies.
Thanks for sharing,this sure sounds delish !
Oh yum, shortbread cookies, my fave.
Wish I saw this recipe before I did the other stuff I made today for my curling group tonight.