PinFacebookTweetEmailShareChocolate shortbread cookies made with melted chocolate.Small batch chocolate shortbread sticks are great for dunking in tea or coffee.Using melted chocolate instead of cocoa makes these shortbread cookies intensely chocolatey and rich.

Perfect for an edible holiday gift or for a Christmas cookie exchange.  Chocolate shortbread cookies: These cookies absolutely take my breath away.They’re slightly crumbly and intensely chocolate-y.I could pretty much always go for a chocolate shortbread cookie, if they are sitting on my counter.

We all have a hard time walking by these cookies and not stealing one, just to check if they are still, in fact, as rich as they were the last time we took a bite.The reason this chocolate shortbread recipe is the actual best on the internet is because the dough is made with melted chocolate.Most shortbread recipes call for cocoa powder, and that’s great, but melted chocolate is even better.

I consider myself a bit of a cookie expert, after 800 recipes on this site over 10 years and 4 cookbooks, of course, and I want to say that shortbread is the most underrated cookie out there.People go crazy for perfect chocolate chip cookies with pools of melted chocolate and chewy little sugar cookies, but shortbread is the real lionheart.Shortbread cookie is made from more butter than it is flour, and so the cookies are rich, perfectly textured and intensely flavored.

When I made my honey shortbread recipe, I w

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