Scroll to the bottom of the post to get ALL the “12 Days” recipes from 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022!
Welcome to Day 5 of
The Twelve Days of Holiday Treats!
Once again, this year, from December 1st-12th I’ll post a new holiday treat recipe every day – inspiration for your holiday entertaining!
The recipes I’m sharing are small-er batch – each recipe makes 1-dozen or a few more smaller-sized treats that are simple to prepare and that use everyday ingredients and equipment so hopefully you’ll be able to whip up any of these on a whim. Check out the treats from 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 at the bottom of this post too for more inspiration!
Today’s treat combines two more of my favourite holiday flavours – chocolate and shortbread! I do love a tin of shortbread at the holidays but I also love chocolate so why not combine the two?
These are super simple, using very few ingredients and a muffin tin to shape the cookie “cups”. I used my thumb to make the initial indentation in the cookie but after about 12 minutes in the oven, I re-imprinted them using a champagne cork to make sure there was lots of room for chocolate 😉
Chocolate-filled shortbread cups
Shortbread cups filled with chocolate.
Ingredients
- 113g salted butter, softened
- 1/4 cup (35g) icing sugar
- 3/4 cup (113g) plain flour
- 1/4 cup (30g) cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon milk
- approximately 60g chocolate for filling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350˚F.
- Lightly grease a 12-cavity muffin tin
- Sift the flour and corn starch together in a small bowl.
- Beat butter and icing sugar together in a medium bowl using electric hand beaters on medium-high speed until creamy.
- Add the vanilla and mix until well combined.
- Turn the speed of the mixer down to low and add the sifted, dry ingredients, about 1/3 cup at a time. Mix until the dry ingredients are just blended.
- Add the milk and mix until the dough starts to clump together.
- Use your hands to bring the dough together into a ball.
- Divide the mixture into 12 and roll into balls.
- Place each dough ball in the muffin tin cavities and use your thumb to make an indentation in the middle, spreading the dough to the edges of the cup.
- Bake at 350 for 15-18 minutes until just set and golden around the edges. At around 12 minutes, take the tray out of the oven and re-press the indentations (a cork or champagne cork is good for this).
- Let sit in the muffin tins for 5 minutes before removing carefully with an offset spatula.
- Cool completely on wire racks
- Melt chocolate in a metal or ceramic bowl set over a pot of simmering water (or in a microwave at 50-60% power in bursts of 30 seconds until it's just about melted and then stir to melt the remainder).
- Use a small teaspoon to fill the indentations in the cookies with the melted chocolate. You can also use a Ziploc bag with the corner snipped off or a small piping bag.
- Allow the chocolate to harden completely before serving.
Notes
You can store these in an airtight container at room temperature for a few days (but I bet you won't be able to!)
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These are delicate, melt-in-your-mouth cookies that are perfect to make for cookie exchanges/ your holiday cookie tin because they are so easy. You can even whip some up at the last minute because they use staple ingredients you probably already have on hand!
Come back tomorrow for Day 6 of the 12 Days of Holiday Treats and scroll down for all the treats from 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022!
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Check out 2022’s 12 Days of Holiday Treats:
Day 1: Chocolate Peppermint Creme Cups
Day 2: Chocolate-Dipped Wafer Cookies
Day 3: Gingerbread madeleines
Day 4: Funfetti Cookies
Day 5: Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Day 6: Coffee Financiers
Day 7: No-Bake Strawbery Cheesecake Cups
Day 8: Holiday Joys
Day 9: Holiday Spice Marmalade
Day 10: Soft Molasses Cookies
Day 11: Coconut Roughs
Day 12: Holiday Lights Jam Sandwich Cookies
Check out 2021’s 12 Days of Holiday Treats:
Day 1: Speculoos financiers
Day 2: Chocolate Dipped Orange Sugar Cookies
Day 3: Madeleines à la Clémentine
Day 4: Chocolate Hazelnut Thumbprint Cookies
Day 5: Sunbutter and Jam Chocolate Cups
Day 6: Hot Chocolate and Marshmallow Cookies
Day 7: Linzer Cookies
Day 8: Chocolate-Hazelnut Sandwich Cookies
Day 9: Choc-Mint Thumbprint Cookies
Day 10: Pailles (Puff Pastry and Jam Cookies)
Day 11: Strawberry Santa Hats
Day 12: Mulled Wine Jam
Check out 2020’s 12 Days of Holiday Treats:
Day 1: Rice Krispie Wreaths
Day 2: Cranberry Cheesecake Bars
Day 3: Peppermint Bark
Day 4: Orangettes
Day 5: Rocky Road Chocolate Crackle Slice
Day 6: Candy Cane Sugar Cookies
Day 7: Orange Pim’s
Day 8: Mendiants
Day 9: Chewy Chocolate Mint Crackle Cookies
Day 10: Apricot, Coconut and Cranberry “truffles”
Day 11: Chocolate, Cherry and Almond Brownies
Day 12: Peppermint Hot Chocolate
Check out 2019’s 12 Days of Holiday Cookies:
Day 1: Easy Three Ingredient Shortbread
Day 2: Jam Drops
Day 3: Chocolate Caramel Slice
Day 4: Melting Moments
Day 5: White Christmas
Day 6: Langues de Chat
Day 7: Chocolate Coconut Slice
Day 8: Cornflake Biscuits
Day 9: Rocky Road
Day 10: Honey Joys
Day 11: Rum Ball Truffles
Day 12: Giant Florentine Cookie (to share)
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