15 shortbread recipes

Bite sized shortbread cookie with icing and sprinkles.

Shortbread Pecan Rum Balls recipe

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cookies made from leftover pie crust with cinnamon sugar

This winning decorated cookie charmed us with its sophisticated look and pleasing chocolate-pepperminty flavor. It's from Deb Bonfiglio of River Hills.

Delicious, melts in your mouth.

The 2nd place winner in the Chicago Tribune's 1996 Annual Holiday Cookie Contest, a simple brown-sugar shortbread from Sandra Petrille of Naperville, Illinois.

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