This is a list of shortbread biscuits and cookies. Shortbread is a type of biscuit or cookie traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter, and three parts flour as measured by weight. Shortbread originated in Scotland; the first recorded recipe was by a Scotswoman named Mrs McLintock and printed in 1736.[1]
Berger Cookies – made and distributed by DeBaufre Bakeries, they are topped with a thick layer of chocolate fudge that derives from a German recipe, and are a cultural icon of Baltimore, Maryland.[2] Its recipe was brought to America from Germany by George and Henry Berger in 1835.
Caramel shortbread – a biscuit confectionery item composed of a rectangular shortbread biscuit base topped with a very soft caramel filling and a milk chocolate topping.[3]
Empire biscuit – a sweet biscuit popular in the United Kingdom, particularly Scotland, and other Commonwealth countries, it is also popular in Northern Ireland.
Ghoriba – a round, shortbread cookie prepared in the Maghreb and other parts of the Middle East.
Hallongrotta – a common Swedish cookie made with butter, flour, baking powder, sugar and vanilla, usually filled with raspberry jam.
Jammie Dodgers – a popular British biscuit, made from shortbread with a raspberry or strawberry flavoured jam filling. Currently produced by Burton's Biscuit Company at its factory in Llantarnam.
Jodenkoek – originating in the Netherlands, a big, flat, round shortbread cookie with a diameter of about 10 centimeters (4"). It is claimed to have been first baked in the 17th century,[5] and these cookies were advertised by bakeries as early as 1872.[6]
Nankhatai – shortbread biscuits popular in India and Pakistan.
Polvorón – a type of heavy, soft and very crumbly Spanish shortbread made of flour, sugar, milk, and nuts, specially almonds.
Qurabiya – a shortbread-type biscuit originating from Iranian Azerbaijan, usually made with ground almonds. Several regional variations exist.
Repostería – a Mexican type of shortbread-like cookie that is lightly baked and dipped into a cinnamon sugar blend until the cinnamon sugar surrounds the cookie.[8] These are often served with coffee or hot spiced Mexican chocolate.
Royal Dansk – a brand of butter cookie produced in Denmark by the Kelsen Group since 1966, and widely exported in a distinctive blue tin featuring an image of the Hjemstavnsgaard farmhouse on the island of Funen.
Shrewsbury biscuits/cookies – Originated and are still made in the historic town of Shrewsbury, England. It is a rich shortbread made with butter, sugar, flour, egg and aroma, often enhanced with currants. The first Shrewsbury biscuits recipe was printed in London in 1658, in a book titled: 'The Compleat Cook'.
Sandies – a shortbread cookie. A commercial variety is manufactured by the Keebler Company.[9][10]
^Milling and Baking News. Sosland Pub. 1988. p. 70.
^Lotus Bakeries product website (in Dutch) Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
^advertentie, Java-bode 27 April 1872
^Smith, A. (2013). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America. OUP USA. p. 520. ISBN 978-0-19-973496-2.
^Clamp, Esther. "Reposteria (The Powdery Yummy Cookies) recipe - from the My Family's Best! A Collection of Recipes Family Cookbook". FamilyCookbookProject.com. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
^"Kellogg's recalls Keebler, Famous Amos cookies for undeclared peanut residue". Fox News. June 14, 2016. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
^Cruise, J. (2012). The Belly Fat Cure Sugar & Carb Counter. Hay House, Incorporated. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-4019-4081-2. Retrieved January 30, 2017.