List of shortbread biscuits and cookies facts for kids
Shortbread is a yummy type of biscuit or cookie that's been around for a long time! It's usually made with just three main ingredients: sugar, butter, and flour. Imagine a recipe where you use one part sugar, two parts butter, and three parts flour – that's the traditional way to make it, measured by weight.
This delicious treat first came from Scotland. The very first recipe we know about was written down by a Scottish lady named Mrs. McLintock in 1736. Today, you can find many different kinds of shortbread. Some recipes might add things like ground rice or cornstarch to change how it feels when you eat it. Others might add a pinch of salt or use a mix of regular sugar and powdered sugar.
Popular Shortbread Biscuits and Cookies
Here are some well-known shortbread biscuits and cookies from around the world:
- Berger Cookies – These cookies are famous in Baltimore, Maryland, in the USA. They have a thick layer of chocolate fudge on top. The recipe came from Germany in 1835.
- Caramel shortbread – This treat has a shortbread base, a soft caramel filling, and a layer of milk chocolate on top. It's like a delicious three-layer bar!
- Countess – A small, slightly sweet shortbread from French Guiana.
- Empire biscuit – Very popular in the United Kingdom, especially Scotland, and other Commonwealth countries. It's a sweet biscuit often decorated with icing and a jam filling.
- Ghoriba – A round shortbread cookie made in the Middle East and North Africa.
- Hallongrotta – A common Swedish cookie. It's made with butter, flour, and sugar, and usually has a raspberry jam filling in the middle.
- Hello Panda – A Japanese biscuit brand. These are small, hollow biscuits with a creamy filling, often chocolate or strawberry.
- Jammie Dodgers – A popular British biscuit. It's made from shortbread with a raspberry or strawberry jam filling, and often has a cut-out shape on top.
- Jodenkoek – This big, flat, round shortbread cookie comes from the Netherlands. It's about 10 centimeters (4 inches) wide and has been around since the 17th century!
- Kourabiedes – A type of Greek shortbread. These are often shaped into balls and covered in powdered sugar.
- Lorna Doone – A brand of shortbread cookie made by Nabisco in the USA.
- Ma'amoul – A shortbread pastry from Arab countries. It's filled with dates, pistachios, or walnuts.
- Nankhatai – Shortbread biscuits popular in India and Pakistan.
- Polvorón – A soft and crumbly Spanish shortbread. It's made with flour, sugar, milk, and nuts, especially almonds.
- Qurabiya – A shortbread-like biscuit from Iranian Azerbaijan. It's often made with ground almonds.
- Repostería – A Mexican shortbread-like cookie. It's lightly baked and then rolled in a cinnamon sugar mix. People often enjoy these with coffee or hot Mexican chocolate.
- Royal Dansk – A brand of butter cookies from Denmark. They are famous for being sold in a special blue tin.
- Sablé – A round French shortbread cookie. It comes from a place called Sablé-sur-Sarthe in France.
- Shrewsbury biscuits/cookies – These rich shortbread cookies come from Shrewsbury, England. They are made with butter, sugar, flour, and egg, and sometimes have currants. The first recipe was printed in 1658!
- Sandies – Another name for a shortbread cookie.
- Trefoils – A small shortbread cookie with vanilla flavor. These are made for sale by the Girl Scouts of the USA.
- Viennese Whirls – A soft shortbread biscuit. They are often filled with creamy buttercream and jam.
- Various shortbreads
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Lorna Doone cookies
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A polvorón
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Sablé with Parmesan cheese and green pepper
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Kourabiedes
See also
- Chinsuko
- Carac – A Swiss dessert with a shortbread crust.
- List of baked goods
- List of cookies
- Shortcake
- Vínarterta – A layered cake with shortbread and plum jam.
