Whipped Shortbread Cookies

These Whipped Shortbread Cookies are buttery, delicious, and so simple to make! No refrigerating, no rolling pins. Just perfect, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread!

I have SERIOUSLY slacked on Halloween recipes this year, so I’m here to repent with some cookies. Please accept this butter-laden apology.

I am particular about Halloween recipes. I’m not typically interested in anything that looks like eyeballs or worms [gross], but I don’t love anything that’s too cutesy either. My favorite Halloween recipe is this Bloody Good Cheesecake. Red velvet, some very bright “blood” frosting, a little dramatic cake staging – so good.

I’ve got a mini version as well – Bloody Good Mini Cheesecakes are bite-sized and have a gingersnap crust.

This shortbread Halloween cookie recipe can be cutesy, if that’s your thing. Or it can be a little bit sophisticated. You can go the spooky route with some red candy melts. Or you can be a total purist and just go the candy eyeball route (my personal favorite).

LeMoine Family Kitchen

This recipe is based on these excellent Rainbow Shortbread Cookies from LeMoine Family Kitchen. I tweaked it a little to accommodate my lazy person ways, but this shortbread cookie goodness originally came out of her kitchen.

Every couple of months, I swap recipes with other bloggers because it’s fun to try things that friends have developed, and /or get to know a new website. Also HOW TF ELSE DO YOU MAKE NEW FRIENDS IN A PANDEMIC?!!

(sorry for freaking out – I need to get out of this house)

Anyway, this month, I coked from the blog of LeMoine Family Kitchen , and because I am me, I immediately searched for Halloween recipes. I found these adorable Halloween Mini Chocolate Cakes, but they felt a little bit to much like my Slimeball Hi Hat Halloween Cookies. THEN I found the shortbread.

If you are looking for a new food blog to follow, especially if you love pasta, Angela is YOUR GIRL! She’s from Jersey with Italian roots, and there are tasty things like this Linguine with Pancetta & Fresh Tomato for days.

Whipped Shortbread vs. Traditional Shortbread

I used Angela’s original ingredients here, but I added a couple of things (vanilla and a little more salt). What I really played around with was the actual technique, because again, I am lazy.

Traditional shortbread cookies will either be rolled out and cut, or the dough is shaped into a log, chilled, and then sliced.

Whipped Shortbread Cookies skip all the rolling out or slicing, and there’s no need to refrigerate the dough. With this recipe, you’ll just whip together the butter and the sugar for a little longer than normal (5 minutes), then add the remaining dry ingredients, and then add the vanilla and the egg.

The dough is soft and smooth, and is super easy to work with.

Tools for making these cookies

There are a few things that can make your cookie-baking life easier, and you definitely don’t HAVE to have them, but I’m always glad to have them handy.

• This Whipped Shortbread Cookies recipe calls for 1/8 cup cornstarch, and you can make it work with a tablespoon or by trying to eyeball a half of a 1/4 measuring cup. But this set of Measuring Cups and Spoons has a 1/8 measuring cup, and I use it WAY more than I thought I ever would!
• OXO Medium Cookie Scoop – this makes perfectly portioned cookies. I use mine often (most recently for these Unicorn Cake Mix Cookies)
• Parchment Paper – for easy clean up
• Sweets Indeed makes some super fun Halloween sprinkles. Monster Mash is my favorite. If you need Candy Eyeballs they have those as well.

Need a few more Fall Recipes?

This is a SOLID list of 13 fall faves -each tested by at least two food bloggers, all sure to be delicious.

1. An Affair from the Heart – Instant Pot Chicken & Rice Soup
2. An Affair from the Heart – Honey Corn Bread
3. Aunt Bee’s Recipes –  Pecan Pie Cheesecake Bars
4. Devour Dinner – Instant Pot French Onion Meatballs
5. House of Nash Eats – Slow Cooker Crack Chicken
6. Lemoine Family Kitchen – Turkey Cranberry Sliders
7. Life Currents – Cheesy Shrimp Dip
8. Life, Love & Good Food – Lemon Garlic Smashed Potatoes
9. Or Whatever You Do – Traeger Grilled Parmesan Halibut
10. Take Two Tapas –  Pork Tenderloin Sliders
11. The Foodie Affair – Easy Greek Style Cauliflower Rice Salad
12. The Speckled Palate – Upside Down Cranberry Cake
13. West Via Midwest – Hawaiian Pulled Pork (Kalua Pork Recipe)