Reviewed: Apr. 16, 2012

I found these cookies to have an excellent flavor, but they were hard to shape. I added a little bit of water and that seemed to help. Next time I make them I will probably add even a little more water. These are very versatile. Instead of filling them with chocolate frosting, I filled them with peanut butter and then dunked them in chocolate.

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mamaaizy

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Dec. 27, 2011

I used real butter, added a little more sugar....but I should have cut back on the flour like someone else suggested. They do taste too much like flour and about half fell apart after baking. I did add flavored jam..at least they were edible. But I wish I could find the recipe that I used awhile ago...

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Michaelle

Reviewed: Aug. 23, 2011

Its a pretty good recipe!! I melt chocolate chips, and put a dab in the center.

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krissy

Reviewed: Apr. 2, 2011

I replaced the sugar with Splenda. I found the dough to be a bit dry with the recipe as written, but adding a little butter or subtracting a little flower solved this problem. I also used sugar free raspberry jam instead of chocolate. They taste great, and mine came to about 60 cals a piece!!

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jordanbledsoe

Reviewed: Mar. 26, 2011

I did not use nuts and used blackberry preserves instead of chocolate. Not very sweet at all. Oh and added vanilla flavoring too. Most likely will not make again.

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longleggedmomi26

Reviewed: Dec. 15, 2010

Nice recipe, and I swapped out the frosting and used Nutella instead, also used hazelnuts in lieu of pecans.Very tasty, would make again.

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Reviewed: Mar. 2, 2010

These cookies came out terribly tasteless. I used a total of 1/2 c of sugar after reading some of the reviews and vanilla. I did make a batch w/o nuts and I highly recommend using nuts. don't think I will make these again.

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ginatex

Reviewed: Dec. 21, 2009

not the shortbread taste I was hoping for... more like biscuit dough than cookie dough. Would probably be better with real butter, vanilla, more sugar and less flour.

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Val

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: La Marque, Texas, USA

Living In: Houston, Texas, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 2, 2009

I made this one late night when I couldn't sleep and was board on the internet... Its a pretty easy recipe to follow and would be fun to do with little kids, because of it ease of making (I don't have a mixer so I have to mix by hand) and not needing too many things to make it... I can understand how people can find it tastes like flour and so solve this problem I added a little vanilla, and about an extra 1/2 cup of sugar ( just free poured and tasted till it was a little sweet) I didn't add pecans because I don't usually have any on hand, so instead I put a small teaspoon of Raspberry Jam before baking them in the oven... I put them in a preheated over at 300 degrees for 10mins then took them out and let them cook on the stove off the heat of the pan. I finished them off with a light sprinkling of icing sugar. Not sure how they will turn out and if they will be a hit with the roommates as other recipes have been off this site so far but we'll see.

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Weasel

Reviewed: Oct. 18, 2008

This is a really good shortbread cookie recipe. The only change to the recipe that I made was to add a teaspoon of vanilla. For the topping, I melted semi-sweet chocolate chips and spooned it in the middle of each cookie. I also sifted the cookies with powdered sugar after done.

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