Kicking Off #ChristmasWeek With Millionaire’s Shortbread Cookies

Welcome to Day One of Christmas Week. This event is hosted by Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Susan of The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen. We hope to inspire you to break out those holiday sprinkles and get your bake on!

It’s the first day of #ChristmasWeek and we’ve got some delicious sweet treats that will have you forgetting about calories until January hits.  Added bonus, we’re celebrating Susan of Little Red Kitchen‘s birthday so I brought a sweetly salted treat to the party – these rich and buttery Millionaire’s Shortbread Cookies.  What’s a Millionaire’s Shortbread you ask – a rich buttery shortbread layered with a bit of caramel and chocolate – decadent, divine and utterly delicious!

I decided to play with a basic recipe and add my own spin to the mix with adding a touch of Peanut Butter to the mix.  Why Peanut Butter you ask – because peanut butter and chocolate are a match made in heaven and add some caramel and finish with a bit of fleur de sel and this is a cookie that is a must make this holiday season.

It couldn’t be easier to make – but you need one vital thing – patience!  Oh – and room in the fridge to chill everything.  This cookie does take a bit of effort but after you whip up the components – it’s assemble, cool, wait, assemble, cool, wait, assemble, cool – cut.  See – patience is key.

It promise – if you leave these for Santa, well, he might just leave you a sassy pair of Louboutins under the tree – after all, you need a rich cookie to go with some stylish stilettos, don’t you think?

On to the recipe:

Gather your ingredients

Time to cut the butter into the dry ingredients

Making the  Peanut Butter Caramel

Spreading the Peanut Butter Caramel over the Shortbread Crust

And then with a touch of chocolate over the peanut butter caramel layer and a sprinkle of fleur de sel

Now – THIS is a cookie my friends

Want one?

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