Shortbread cookies with icing

Cut out shortbread cookies are soft, buttery, and melt in your mouth. Made with a simple 5-ingredient cookie dough and decorated with optional royal icing.

15-Minute Shortbread Cookies - Delicious and easy shortbread cookies that come together in 15 minutes (or less!) and can be eaten alone or topped with your favorite icing or filling!

I love shortbread and I like sugar cookies but a cookie that is both...that's heaven! This is the kind of icing that "dries" and makes almost like a candy shell on the cookie. When the icing is dry, store in an airtight container for up to a week. You can also keep the unbaked dough in the fridge for up to a week...but who can resist making these that long? You have to use butter to get the right taste. Sometimes just for a different flavor I add a teaspoon or two of almond extract.

Vanilla Meltaway Cookies are the original Meltaway Cookies! With a soft shortbread vanilla cookie base and a sweet vanilla icing, they melt in your mouth!

Whipped Shortbread Drop Cookies can have a different flavor and appearance every time you make them The possibilities are endless, and simply delicious.

Almond Meltaway Cookies are a lot like shortbread cookies, with a sweet almond glaze on top. They're so tasty and they melt in your mouth!

These shortbread cookies have an exciting play between sugar and salt with a full-on buttery flavor and perfectly crumbly texture. They are the platonic ideal of perfect shortbread.

These shortbread cookies are so buttery, crispy, and melt in your mouth. They only require 6 ingredients and I bet they're all in your pantry

Strawberry Shortbread Cookies are pretty in pink with a fresh berry flavor. Freeze dried strawberries are the secret!

These Thumbprint Cookies with icing are perfect for the holidays- buttery shortbread cookies topped with sweet icing and festive sprinkles.