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Whipped Shortbread Cookies

This Whipped Shortbread Cookies recipe is amazing! It’s super simple, delicious, uses only a few ingredients and has a delicious meltaway texture!

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Whipped Shortbread Melts In Your Mouth!

I happen to be shortbread obsessed. What’s not to love really? You have a sweet, buttery cookie that is both simple and flavorful all at the same time.

Whipping the butter for 3 minutes creates a lighter, whipped base to add the other ingredients. The finished cookie is light, yet rich, and subtly sweet.

Stacked and broken whipped shortbread

Only 4 Ingredients…

The great part about shortbread is its simplicity. But with that said, since there are so few ingredients I recommend using the highest quality you can manage. That doesn’t mean you need to go out and spend a ton of money on fancy butter, or organic flours…

It just means choose ingredients that TASTE good. You might have a preference in which brand of all purpose flour you use…or butter…or vanilla…And in this case, I’d say choose your favorite. You can even splurge on a fancy European butter if you’re feeling like the splurge. This is a time when that butter makes the cookie better!

  • Butter. I like to use salted butter as it adds to the flavor. BUT you can absolutely use unsalted, because you do add a little more salt. I would recommend that if you use unsalted, just add 1/4 teaspoon more
  • Powdered Sugar. Yep, just powdered sugar in this recipe, not granulated sugar. The powdered sugar is smooth and sweet, and gives the shortbread a melty texture.
  • Flour. All purpose all the way!
  • Salt. I use kosher salt in this shortbread recipe, as I do in most of my baking recipes.

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How To Make Whipped Shortbread…

  1. In your mixer fitted with paddle attachment whip the butter for 3 minutes on high speed, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
  2. Add in add in powdered sugar, salt and flour slowly and mix on low speed until incorporated, and then turn the mixer up to medium and mix for just 20 sends.
  3. If you would like to add in chocolate chips, add those in now. You can also divide the dough in half and make half of the shortbread with chocolate chips and half without for a combination!
  4. Use a medium cookie scoop and portion the dough out onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
  5. Bake at 325°F for 12-15 minutes until edges are slightly golden.
  6. Cool completely!
Shortbread cookies on a wire rack

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Whipped shortbread broken in half on a cooling rack

Whipped Shortbread Cookies

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  • Author: Shelly
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 12 minutes
  • Total Time: 22 minutes
  • Yield: 30 cookies 1x
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: Scottish

Description

This Whipped Shortbread Cookies recipe is amazing! It’s super simple, delicious, uses only a few ingredients and has a delicious meltaway texture!


Ingredients

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  • 2 cups butter, room temperature (I used salted)
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • optional – 1 cup mini chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325°F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper, set aside.
  2. In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment mix the butter for 3 minutes on high speed, scraping down the sides of the bowl periodically. When thoroughly whipped, turn mixer to low and add in add in powdered sugar, salt and flour slowly. Once incorporated turn the mixer to medium and mix for 20 seconds. If adding chocolate chips, add them now and stir until evenly incorporated.
  3. Using a 2 tablespoon sized cookie scoop, scoop the dough onto the prepared baking sheet. I like tall puffy cookies, but if you prefer flatter ones, press them down slightly.
  4. Bake for 12-15 minutes until edges are slightly golden.
  5. Allow to cool on wire rack.

Notes

Store airtight for up to 5 days.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size:
  • Calories: 162
  • Sugar: 5 g
  • Sodium: 234.7 mg
  • Fat: 9.4 g
  • Carbohydrates: 18.2 g
  • Protein: 2.6 g
  • Cholesterol: 0 mg

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116 comments on “Whipped Shortbread Cookies”

  1. Hee! Thanks for your recipe, I would love making more of you’re briliant sweets, but the difference in accuracy between cups and grams makes it really hard to follow your style. Could you blog and test your recipe in grams too? If you’re blogging international why only use cups?

  2. Totally bummed, mine came out flat and wafer thin – so thin and flat that I couldn’t even get them off the pan to the wire rack because they just crumbled to bits. I too used a Silpat on a regular old 1/2 sheet pan. What a waste 🙁

  3. These cookies taste like flour. There is too much flour in this recipe and not enough other flavor. I even added vanilla and they just taste like flour.

  4. Hello
    I liked the sound of this recipe, but the last time I tried to make something with ingredient’s measured in cup’s it did not work out correct. Do you have the same recipe but with measurements in grams? so I can make it correctly.

    Thanks
    Jack






  5. I make these cookies all the time – I add holiday specific sprinkles or just leave them plain. I mix the butter and powdered sugar for a few minutes. After I add the flour, I mix (with my KitchenAid) it for a MINIMUM of TEN minutes…pipe the batter into a cutesy swirl…bake them on parchment paper…and they literally MELT in your mouth!! We call them “Angel Kiss Shortbreads” because they are SO delicate!

  6. I think I’m going to bake up a batch of these and serve with strawberries and whipped cream … yum!

  7. May i know shelly that can i use shortening instead of butter?I have some unused shortening and don’t know what should I do with them?

    1. I can’t recommend shortening in this recipe, because the butter adds so much flavor to this simple cookie. But if you still try it let me know how it came out!

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