30 Christmas shortbread recipes

Room for imagination for successful Christmas shortbreads

Easy, quick to make, and often prepared with cupboard stock, Christmas shortbreads come in endless varieties. Basically? A simple sweet paste, flavored or not with Christmas spices, or even cocoa powder. It is prepared with one or more alternative flours, chestnut, buckwheat, rice, spelled, or coconut. We will have understood: the recipe is ultra-simple, and it is therefore the shape and decoration of the shortbread which will make these bites truly festive. So it’s time to take out our cookie cutters in the shape of a star, tree, reindeer, snowman, or even a crown and let the Christmas spirit express itself.

On the art of decoration

Where you can have fun with Christmas shortbread is with the final decoration. Royal icing, sprinkles, melted chocolate, cone writing, icing sugar, chopped dried fruits: don’t hesitate to combine liquid and dry products for a festive decoration as desired. Our ultimate secret? Consider slightly “de-sweetening” the dough, to obtain biscuits that you never get tired of picking at. Christmas shortbread is often decorated with very sweet products, which can quickly turn out to be sickening.

If these Christmas cookies can be stacked in the shape of a gourmet tree, to be placed in the center of the table, they can also be hung with a ribbon on the traditional conifer for a cute decoration. Whether they are glazed, glazed, filled, cocoa-filled, or in the form of gingerbread cookies, Christmas shortbreads are all delicious. The proof by 30.