Recipes
Browse by: Dish Type Ingredient Cuisine Cooking Method Diet Season Menus Recipe Collections Quick Dinners View All
How-Tos
Cooking Techniques Ingredient Guides Equipment Kitchen Tips Entertaining View All
Product Recs
Equipment Reviews Taste Tests Buying Guides Editors' Picks Books Shop View All
Culture
Cuisine Guides Food History Food Science Personal Essays Podcast Travel Diaries Profiles Food Industry SE HQ View All
Dining Out
Boston Chicago Los Angeles New Orleans New York Philadelphia Portland, OR San Francisco Washington, DC View All
Game Day
Chili Dips and Spreads Drinks Guacamole Mains Nachos Salsas Snacks Sweets Wings View All
Your account
Saved Recipes > Newsletters >
Follow us
Recipes
Browse by: Dish Type Ingredient Cuisine Cooking Method Diet Season Menus Recipe Collections Quick Dinners View All
How-Tos
Cooking Techniques Ingredient Guides Equipment Kitchen Tips Entertaining View All
Product Recs
Equipment Reviews Taste Tests Buying Guides Editors' Picks Books Shop View All
Culture
Cuisine Guides Food History Food Science Personal Essays Podcast Travel Diaries Profiles Food Industry SE HQ View All
Dining Out
Boston Chicago Los Angeles New Orleans New York Philadelphia Portland, OR San Francisco Washington, DC View All
Game Day
Chili Dips and Spreads Drinks Guacamole Mains Nachos Salsas Snacks Sweets Wings View All
Saved recipes > Newsletters >

Search for recipes and articles

Popular Searches

Staff Favorites

  • Burgers
  • Korean
  • Corn
  • Chocolate
More Breadcrumbs
  • Recipes
  • Ingredient
  • Chocolate

Chocoholic: Chocolate Shortbread Sandwich Cookies

Yvonne Ruperti
0 Printer-Friendly Version
Published: November 28, 2012 Last Updated: April 4, 2019

Because Santa could be a chocoholic [Photograph: Yvonne Ruperti]

Get the Recipe

  • Chocolate Shortbread Sandwich Cookies

Around this time of year, the inn that I worked at many years ago used to host a holiday tree lighting on their front lawn. As pastry chef and resident cookie elf, I'd be responsible for baking close to a thousand cookies for the event. Some might find that kind of a task a chore, but for some reason I get a lot of pleasure from turning out cookies in high volume. From composing the cookie list to seeing the cookies all neatly arranged on platters, it just never felt like work.

Among my favorite cookies from the trays were the chocolate on chocolate versions. When tossed into a cookie assortment, anything doubly chocolatey stands out as the gem, and never fails to be the first to get swiped up. Chocolate on chocolate is pure decadence. Take these chocolate shortbread sandwich cookies—crisp, buttery, chocolatey shortbread is already a super rich, appealing cookie. But sandwich that together with a luscious piping of creamy, ultra dark chocolate ganache? Now this is a cookie that will make any chocolate cookie lover weak.

To make these cookies even more irresistible, I pulled out an adorable flower shaped cutter from my bento box cutter collection. After cutting out the cookies from the rolled dough and placing them on the baking sheets, I used the back end of a pastry tip to cut out the center of half of the cookies. That way, the pretty swirl of ganache would show through the top cookie. If you want to go over the top, dip the edge of the finished cookie in melted chocolate. And if you're looking to really jazz them up for the holidays, do what I like to do: dunk the chocolate-dipped cookie in sprinkles.

Get the Recipe

Chocolate Shortbread Sandwich Cookies »

About the Author: Yvonne Ruperti is a food writer, recipe developer, former bakery owner, and author of The Complete Idiot's Guide To Easy Artisan Bread. You can also watch her culinary stylings on the America's Test Kitchen television show. She presently lives in Singapore as a freelance writer for Time Out Singapore. Check out her blog: shophousecook.com . Follow Yvonne on Twitter.

All products linked here have been independently selected by our editors. We may earn a commission on purchases, as described in our affiliate policy.

Yvonne Ruperti
  • Profile
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Contact

Yvonne Ruperti is a food writer, recipe developer, former bakery owner, and author of the new cookbook One Bowl Baking: Simple From Scratch Recipes for Delicious Desserts (Running Press, October 2013), and available at Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, Powell's, The Book Depository. Watch her culinary stylings on the America's Test Kitchen television show. Follow her Chocoholic, Chicken Dinners, Singapore Stories and One Bowl Baking columns on Serious Eats. Follow Yvonne on Twitter as she explores Singapore.

0 Printer-Friendly Version
Tags
  • chocoholic
  • chocolate dessert
  • christmas
  • christmas cookies
  • cookies

SERIOUS EATS: ALL ABOUT

Chocolate

Everything you want to know about chocolate

  • Chocolate
More Breadcrumbs
  • Recipes
  • Ingredient
  • Chocolate
HIDE COMMENTS
Sign In or Register
No comments
Comments are closed
HIDE COMMENTS

Popular Recipes

American

Foolproof Pan Pizza

This cast iron pizza recipe is the easiest method for making a crisp-crusted, airy, chewy pan pizza at home.

J. Kenji López-Alt
Cinco de Mayo

Classic Margarita Recipe

The perfect margarita is all about fresh, crisp flavors, barely tempered by sweet triple sec.

The Serious Eats Team
Bread

Aloo Paratha With Spiced Potato Filling

Crisp yet tender flatbreads stuffed with spiced mashed potatoes.

Nik Sharma
Christmas

Ultra-Crispy Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder

Pull-apart tender meat and ultra-crisp skin: It's not the most gorgeous roast in the world, but you'd be hard pressed to find one more flavorful.

J. Kenji López-Alt
Subscribe to our newsletter to get the latest recipes and tips!

More Chocolate

Chocoholic: Baked Chocolate Mousse Cake

Chocoholic: Baked Chocolate Mousse Cake

How to Make Chocolate-Covered Ice Cream Bars

How to Make Chocolate-Covered Ice Cream Bars

Chocoholic: No Knead Chocolate Babka

Chocoholic: No Knead Chocolate Babka

Serious Eats
  • Latest
  • Masthead
  • Contact
  • Newsletter
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Jobs
  • Sitemap
  • FAQ

Follow Us

  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your California Privacy Rights
  • © 2021 Serious Eats Inc., by Dotdash

Welcome! Please sign in.

Forgot password?