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Hot Chocolate Shortbread #StirThingsUp ~ Giveaway

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One of my all-time favourite comfort foods is a great shortbread. My husband would agree, seeing as he is from England and they do have some great shortbread over there. I have always loved my grandmother’s recipe and over the years I have made it so many times I can’t even tell you.  Just last year at Christmas I decided to change it up and add some crushed cookies and mint chocolate drizzle to them and they were so good.  So I thought why not stir things up again and make them using Carnation Hot chocolate? The perfect mix of buttery melt in your mouth shortbread with the sweet hint of chocolate for good measure.

stirthingsup with shortbread

These are so easy to make and anyone can make them.  I think this recipe is impossible to mess up that I think even my 9-year-old could probably do it with very little guidance from me. With just 5 ingredients needed, all of which you probably have in your house, make this a recipe for that can be used at any time.

Ingredients

1/2 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup icing sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup margarine (you can use butter as well)
1/2 cup Carnation Hot Chocolate
1/4 cup tiny chocolate chips (optional)

Directions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Put margarine (or butter) into a mixer and beat for 6-7 minutes. I find this makes it creamier and you get flakier shortbread. In a separate bowl combine the cornstarch, icing sugar and flour. Slowly add to the margarine until completely mixed, add in the Carnation Hot Chocolate powder and mix until just combined. Roll into a ball with your hands and wrap with saran wrap and refrigerate for an hour.

stirthingsup with shortbread
Once the hour has passed, take the dough out of the fridge and roll into cookie sized balls and place on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet or you can use a silicone cookie sheet like I do. Squish them down and add 3 tiny chocolate chips in the centre (optional). Cook for 15-20 minutes or until just brown on the edges. Makes approximately 12-14 cookies depending on how large you make them.

If you are looking for a simple and easy recipe for shortbread, look no further than this one.

My friends at Nestle have decided to offer one of my readers a pretty sweet giveaway.  You can enter below for your chance to win a FitBit Blaze worth approximately $300!

Disclosure:  This post for my Carnation Hot Chocolate shortbread, was sponsored by Nestlé however, my opinions are completely my own and based on my own personal experiences.

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Comments

  11. My boyfriend and I love hortbread cookies and I think adding chocolate flavour is a bonus, definately will try!

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  13. The Hot Chocolate Shortbread – would never in a millions years think to cook with Nestle hot chocolate. This is cool

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  16. My favourite is definitely the Carnation Hot Chocolate shortbread!!! Looks so good, definitely going to give this recipe a try!

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  25. My favourite of your Nestle recipes is definitely this one. I’m a huge shortbread lover and these sound easy, yummy, and festive which make them perfect for a holiday cookie tray and gifts for the neighbours.

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  27. My favourite of your #StirThingsUp recipes are the Chocolate And White Chocolate Chip Mini Cupcakes With Nesquik Buttercream Frosting. Yummy!

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  37. It’s hard to choose but my favourite has to be the Chocolate Cookie with Butterscotch Chips! I too LOVE chewy chocolate chip cookies, and I think the butterscotch and the Nesquik were a perfect extra touch!

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  39. My favorite is definitely the Hot Chocolate Shortbread Cookies because I’m addicted to both Shortbread cookies AND Nestle hot chocolate. The combination sounds like heaven.

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  41. Wow who would of thought of adding chocolate to shortbread..love it
    I love your Hot Chocolate Shortbread recipe

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  74. Oh man , so picking was tuff ! I’d say Decadent Carnation Hot Chocolate Mousse #Recipe #StirThingsUp but they all look pretty good to me !!!

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  96. From the sound of the recipes I’d have to choose the Decadent Carnation Hot Chocolate Mousse, though the shortbread is a very close runner-up. 🙂

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  102. Decadent Carnation Hot Chocolate Mousse #Recipe #StirThingsUp – I’d eat that for sure, might even try to make it (or get my daughter to make it for me)

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  104. I would love to have the Shortbread Cookies but, the Bubbly Aero S’mores looks delicious and would definitely on my make list.

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  136. I think the shortbread would be my favourite as well. We always bake cookies for everyone at Christmas time and these sound like a great addition to what we normally bake. Thanks!

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  144. All the recipes look awesome, but I think the shortbread is my fave. Hot chocolate and icing sugar?! Sign me up!

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  158. Oh my word!!! These sound amazing! I hadn’t thought to use hot chocolate when baking! I will totally be trying this! I’m sure my 5 boys will love it!

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  162. Ooh, I need to try this recipe. The edges look perfectly crispy, that’s when I know I have a good cookie. Need to get my kids to bake with me this weekend.

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  173. The Hot Chocolate Shortbread is my fave!! I would’ve never thought to add hot chocolate to the recipe, fabulous idea.

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  180. The Carnation Hot Chocolate Marshmallow Brownies were my favourite. Almost too delicious… they definitely don’t last long!!

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  195. I am afraid that I, also, will have to go with the Hot chocolate shortbread…what a terrific idea.. for those of us, who just love shortbread and chocolate.. what I am going to do, is also snip up about 1/4 cup of dried strawberries and fold them into the recipe, in a separate batch as well as try to use candied dried orange peels as well…Yay!

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  204. Hot Chocolate Shortbread is defintely my favorite receipe. I’ve never seen a chocolate version of this classic cookie and it sounds so tasty!

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  208. After looking through all nine of the delicious-sounding recipes, I still think that the Hot Chocolate Shortbread sounds the yummiest.

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  221. Oh my goodness, I’m dying for some chocolate after browsing your recipes!! The Decadent Carnation Hot Chocolate Mousse looks especially appealing! Thank you!

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