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Chocolate shortbread with cacao nibs and sea salt

I was excited to share this recipe because it is so easy and so tasty:
chocolate shortbread

What you can’t see is that I completely screwed up and you can hardly pick those up without them falling apart.  It seems that when you double a recipe, you should double all of the ingredients.  Whoops.  But let’s not talk about what I did there.  Anyway, I tried again and got them right:

chocolate catsFor the vet’s office!

The recipe is here.  I first made these a couple Christmases ago and they’ve been a household favorite ever since.  The cats look cute, right?  But take my advice: it’s not worth it to try to get fancy with the cookie cutters on shortbread cookies because all of that butter makes them crumble, and half of the cats ended up Manx.  Nothing says ‘Happy Holidays’ like mutilated cookies!

Yesterday I finished distributing my holiday baking gifts around town.  Now I can get down to the business of baking for our soon-to-arrive guests!

treats 1

treats 2

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