Maple Glazed Maple Shortbread Recipe

This easy shortbread made with maple syrup and brown sugar, is the perfect holiday cookie. Chilled in the fridge and then sliced and baked, this maple glazed cookie is a maple lover’s dream.

Everyone should have an easy shortbread recipe in their back pocket.

I’ve made many shortbread cookies over the years, but this one is my favorite…at least today!

Maple is one of my favorite flavors and these maple shortbread cookies are…well, let’s just say it is hard to stop at one!

I dare say these are the perfect gift, when you need a hostess gift. Stacked in clear cellophane bags with  pretty velvet ribbon, these shortbreads win everyone over.

These maple cookies are just perfect for gifting if you have any left after your family eats them all.

Making the dough is a total cinch. With just 5 ingredients, this maple shortbread recipe, can’t be beat.

Another reason I love this cookie is they are just like slice and bake cookies. You know. The ones from the refrigerator case.

Of course, they taste like gobs better than those, but once the dough is prepared, it is formed into a log and then wrapped in wax paper or plastic wrap, until you are ready to slice and bake!

Get it?

Slice and bake cookies are just the best. The dough is ready in 15 minutes and then it’s a matter of chilling until you are ready to slice and bake. 

Shortbread is a favorite of mine, as is anything maple. These cookies are a great combination of both.

Cookies fill the little bite syndrome just perfectly and they do so without making us look virtuous. After all everyone is entitled to a cookie.

Besides; cookies are small and petite and cute and sweet. Oh, I do love to use my words! 

And I love this cookie. This shortbread recipe makes about 60 cookies depending on how thick you slice them.

 Baked cookies can be kept in the freezer and glazed when thawed. 

Though they don’t need to be glazed,  I heartily recommend this simple maple glaze.

Splurge and buy real maple syrup. Real maple extract is also a necessity, but if you don’t have it use real vanilla.

With cookies this good they are quickly eaten and receive lots of compliments  It’s hard for me to avoid chocolate but I have always loved shortbread.

Perhaps it’s the butter flavor and the crumbly texture of shortbread that I love so much.

Though these are a bit untraditional because of the added egg yolk,  they benefit from the richness of the egg.

And perhaps they aren’t as crumbly as a traditional shortbread recipe, but they sure are good.

An icebox cookie? A slice and bake cookie? Or perhaps just a good maple shortbread cookie? Whatever you want to call them, is fine with me. 

Because frankly, I just call these delicious!

 

MORE COOKIES:

Chocolate Salted Sable Cookies

Almond Butter Tahini Cookies (Gluten Free)

Earl Grey, Apricot and Chocolate Mandel Bread or Jewish Biscotti

Icebox Chocolate Toffee Cookies

And there are heaps more cookies under the recipe tab up above!

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