I love the holiday season! There’s pretty lights and decorations down the street, merriment as family and friends get together, and seriously delicious desserts that always seem to be brought out this time of year. Because I’m on a quest to make this the best Christmas ever (said with sarcasm, but not really ;p) I decided Josh and I should start doing some holiday baking. I’ve always wanted to make cookies in holiday shapes and decided this would be the year. We ended up making less of a cookie but more of a shortbread. I am so excited to share the recipe with you, it’s delicious!
I mentioned my 30 day Swerve challenge before when sharing my pumpkin mookie recipe. I love Swerve. It’s a great zero calorie, non-glycemic, natural, non-gmo, preservative free, artificial ingredient free, replacement to sugar. It tastes great and measures cup for cup with sugar.
The Best Shortbread Christmas CookiesMakes 4 dozen
(Recipe modified from this recipe)
1 1/2 cups butter, softened
2 cups Swerve
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
In mixer mix together butter and Swerve until smooth. Mix in eggs and vanilla. Mix in flour.
Take bowl out of mixer and manually add in the baking powder and salt, kneading it with your hands.
Cover and chill dough overnight.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Take out dough and let it warm up for about an hour.
Roll out dough on floured surface to 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick.
Use your favorite cookie cutters to cut out the dough.
Place cookies 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until cookies begin to lightly brown.
We used a mixture of Christmas and Hanukkah cookie cutters and had so much rolling out the flour and making shapes.
The cookies take on a biscuit like appearance and taste like shortbread.
My favorite were the super thick cookies, while Josh preferred the thinner cookies. We could not stop gobbling these down. I took a big batch to work and everyone loved them. I came home with an empty tupperware container. ;p
It was so much fun to cookie bake while listening to Christmas music. I’m excited for this to be the start of an annual holiday tradition.
Question of the Day: Do you bake Christmas/Hanukkah/holiday cookies this time of year?
Disclaimer: This post was sponsored by Swerve. All opinions are my own. And these cookies really are the bomb dot com.
Those look so yummy!
I just love this time of year.
My mom and I will have our fourth annual cookie baking day next week. Every year, we get together over coffee and pore over cookbooks to select our top five favorites. The top five get baked and distributed accordingly!
This year we have decided on chocolate-dipped marshmallows (as our no-frills treat), chocolate pretzel cookies, snowflake decorated sugar cookies, pecan bars (our “non-cookie” selection), and cherry and almond cookies (our “complex cookie” selection).
Happy Holidays!
Thanks for this. I LOVE good shortbread but just usually by walkers or something. Making it myself is obviously the better decision! I hope…we’ll find out. 🙂
I love baking cookies during the holidays! We usually have a big cookie baking and decorating party for the kids. So much fun!
Shortbread is one of my faves. I came to try it a few years back. They are melt in your mouth good.