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I love Christmas cookies. I am trying to get into the routine of making several for the season so that I can share them with others. One type I really love is shortbread cookies. Their flaky texture and buttery flavor gets me every time. Then I got to thinking…what if I made these with Idahoan mashed potatoes??
These Mashed Potato Shortbread Cookies are delicious. They still have the texture and flavor of other shortbread cookies, but they have hidden vegetables. My whole family loved these; you cannot even taste the mashed potatoes and they are so simple to make! If you set out cookies for Santa, these would be a great choice–sneak some veggies into his diet.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature (1 stick)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup Idahoan Buttery Homestyle mashed potatoes, prepared
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips for melting and dipping (optional)
- Christmas-colored nonpareil sprinkles for dipping (optional)
Directions
1. Mix together the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, and salt.) If you have a large enough food processor, you can use that. I just used a pastry blender.
2. Mix or blend in the wet ingredients (butter, vanilla, and mashed potatoes) until a dough forms. I used a combination of the pastry blender and my hands for this.
3. Roll the dough into a tube a couple inches in diameter then wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes until the dough is firm.
4. Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
5. Once the dough is chilled, take it out and slice it into discs about 1/3 inch thick. Set them on an ungreased pan 2 inches apart and bake for 12-14 minutes until the edges are a light brown color.
6. Once cooked, remove from the pan and onto a drying rack immediately.
7. After the cookies are cooled, melt a bowl of chocolate (I used chocolate chips for ease) and dip the cookies in part way. Scrape off the excess if desired; I know I personally do not like a huge clump of chocolate on the cookies.
8. While the chocolate is still melted, dip the cookies part way into a cup of Christmas-colored nonpareil sprinkles.
9. Set the dipped cookies onto a piece of wax or parchment paper and let the chocolate harden on the cookies before serving.
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature (1 stick)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup Idahoan Buttery Homestyle mashed potatoes, prepared
- 1 cup (about) semi-sweet chocolate chips for melting and dipping (optional)
- Christmas-colored nonpareil sprinkles for dipping (optional)
- Mix together the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, and salt.) If you have a large enough food processor, you can use that. I just used a pastry blender.
- Mix or blend in the wet ingredients (butter, vanilla, and mashed potatoes) until a dough forms. I used a combination of the pastry blender and my hands for this.
- Roll the dough into a tube a couple inches in diameter then wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes until the dough is firm.
- Preheat the oven to 350
- Once the dough is chilled, take it out and slice it into discs about ⅓ inch thick. Set them on an ungreased pan 2 inches apart and bake for 12-14 minutes until the edges are a light brown color.
- Once cooked, remove from the pan and onto a drying rack immediately.
- After the cookies are cooled, melt a bowl of chocolate (I used chocolate chips for ease) and dip the cookies in part way. Scrape off the excess if desired; I know I personally do not like a huge clump of chocolate on the cookies.
- While the chocolate is still melted, dip the cookies part way into a cup of Christmas-colored nonpareil sprinkles.
- Let the chocolate harden on the cookies before serving.
-What is your favorite Christmas cookie?
My favorite cookie has got to be good ole’ fashioned sugar cookie. My husband and I just made a few batches last week and it is always so much fun to punch out different shapes and decorate them!
Great! I definitely love decorating sugar cookies! Great memories from it–it’s a family tradition.
Those cookies look like so much fun! I love that they are made using mashed potatoes – I love unique recipes! I will have to try them out!
Definitely! Thank you! Let me know how you like them 🙂
You are so talented. Seriously these look incredible! I would NEVER have thought to make Mashed Potato Shortbread cookies!
Thank you, Stephanie! I appreciate it! I was just trying to think of something fun that would go with the season and buttery potatoes and I love shortbread cookies so this just fit! 🙂
Hm… no favorite Christmas cookie, but my favorite cookie is def. snickerdoodles 😉
Ooooh Snickerdoodles are sooo yummy!
I love chocolate chip cookies!!!
Great choice any day!
My favorite Christmas cookiie are spritz cookies sprinkled witth colored sugar. (sprita are a type of butter cookie)
I love Spritz cookies too! I think I will have to make some this year now! I always loved adding colors and flavors to them when I was growing up.
My favorite Christmas cookie is a chocolate chip cookie made with mint chocolate chips.
Oh that sounds delightful! I love the mint-chocolate combination.
How unique! I need to try these!
Definitely! If you do, let me know how you like them!
These look great!
Thank you! 🙂
Those look incredibly yummy!!
Thanks so much!
I like oatmeal scotchies, but I am not so sure I could incorporate the potatoes into those.
Those are tasty! Who knows, there may be a way 😉
I love frosted sugar cookies the best.
Definitely a favorite 🙂
This looks like such a great recipe! YUM!
Thank you!
These look yummy. You’d never know they were made with mashed potatoes!
Thank you Kira! That was my goal! 😉
We make cracker candy at our house. Who would have thought that a cookie made with potatoes would be happening? Sounds good though!
That sounds awesome! I’d love to know how it turned out! Thanks Rebecca!
Chocolate Chip
Great choice Sandra!
My favorite cookies are Pecan Fingers. I think I am going to have to try your recipe. Sounds yummy!
I definitely need some of those right now…those are my favorite 😉
Wow. I love this recipe
Thank you!
My fave is Buckeye or nut roll cookies. I love those.
Those are great!
Gingerbread men! I loveeeee a soft baked ginger bread cookie!!
Definitely! I love decorating them too!
I love sugar cookies because they are so much fun to decorate.
Me too! I love being very detailed with them–so fun.
I love sugar cookies. It is so much fun putting the frosting and sprinkles on them with the kids.
Definitely! My son has yet to figure out how to decorate them without just eating everything as he goes. Such great memories lol.
I love a good soft sugar cookie.
Definitely!
My favorite xmas cookie is Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Raisin! Yum!
Yummy!
I love peanut butter cookies with a Hershey kiss 🙂
That sounds so good right now!
I like monster cookies
I don’t think I have ever heard of those but they sound delightful! What’s in them?
i’m pretty plain– “sugar cookies” is my favorite!
Sugar cookies are great!
My favorite Christmas cookie is Sugar cookies with icing and lots of sprinkles.
Those are always fun!
I love chocolate dipped Orange Almond cookie logs rolled in red and green colored sugar. My daughter and I make them every year and everyone always loves them. We love Idahoan potatoes, can’t wait to try this recipe out. Thanks!
Oooh that sounds amazing!! Great! If you try it, let me know how you like it!
The tried and true butter/sugar cut-out cookies with buttercream frosting.you can eat them any time of year but they always taste better around the holidays and especially when they are made by someone else and not yourself.
Definitely agree Brenda!
My favorite christmas cookie would be gingerbread.
Gingerbread is always fun!
Ginger cookies will always be my favourite!
They’re yummy!
I have always loved the recipe my mother made every Christmas – Cookies with Hershey’s Kisses on top.
Those are one of my favorites too 🙂
Sugar cookies.
Great choice!
I love soft sugar cookies with icing on them. Especially if they have fun shapes.
For sure, June!
Probably a chocolate chip, but anything with chocolate. lol
Lol yes chocolate is good 😉
Favorite is date and nut pinwheel cookies. Somewhat time consuming but flavor is worth it.
Those sound delicious!!
Wow… um… my favorite cookie is probably a good old fashioned chocolate chip!
Great choice, Christina!
I love snicker doodles!
Yum!!!
I love the shortbread ones with powdered sugar on them
That sound great!
I like good old fashion peanut butter
Always a good choice!
Sugar cookies
Great choice!
My family insists on chocolate chip cookies!
Add Nicole S
Chocolate chip cookies are definitely yummy!
gingerbread cookies are the best!
There is so much fun you can have with them too!
My fav honestly has to be the Lofthouse cookies that you get at walmart, love homemade cookies, but those guys are the bomb!
Ooh yes those are good.
I love thumbprint cookies
I don’t know that I know what those are. I’ll have to look into it!
Molasses cookies are great. Thanks for hosting the giveaway.
Good choice! Thanks for entering, Wayne!
I absolutely love Polvorones with a little cinnamon sprinkled on them just out of the oven.
Yummy, sounds so good!
My favorite Christmas cookie is pecan crescents.
I like any cookies with pecans. Mmm!!
I love the decorated sugar cookies! I guess could make them all year long, but to me they are Christmas cookies!
I totally agree-they always taste better at Christmas!
sugar cookies
Good choice, Marilyn!
Shortbread is actually my favorite holiday cookie…never tried ’em with potatoes, though 😉
(Goes well with my Scots-Irish heritage, though!)
That’s awesome! Haha I am sure most haven’t tried them with potatoes 😉 If you decide to, let me know how you like them!
chocolae chip
Good choice!
my favorite Christmas cookies are Chocolate Crinkles
Ooh that sounds good!
i love sugar cookies
Great choice, Jennifer!
My favorite Christmas cookie is a decorated sugar cookie with royal icing.
I love those too!
I love sugar cookies!
Great choice!
I love soft sugar cookies.
Yummy!
molasses cookies
Good choice, Katyann!
Oh my, it’s hard to chose a favorite. I do love sugar cookies though, decorated for Christmas with my son.
It is hard; sugar cookies are my favorite for family participation 🙂
Decorated almond cookies in Christmas shapes. My mother made them every year when I was growing up & now I make them every year with my son.
Sounds delicious!! Love that you are keeping the tradition going!
My favorite cookies are chocolate chips. Your cookies look delicious!
Chocolate chip is always a good choice! Thank you, Kim!
My favorite is frosted sugar cookies.
Yum! Thanks for entering!
I love gingerbread cookies but peanut butter are a year round favorite also!
montanna sutherland is my entry name
Great choices!
I love a good chewy molasses cookie! My entry name is Judith
Sounds good!
My favorite cookie is the sugar cookies with frosting
Definitely one of the best!
I love butterscotch cookies.
Yum! Thanks for entering!
I don’t know what they’re called but my favorite cookies we have at Christmas time are the chocolate cookies rolled in sugar so that when they bake it looked crackled. So yummy!
Ooh yes, those are good. I’m not sure the name either…maybe chocolate crackle cookies lol.
One of my favorite Christmas cookies are Pecan Sandies and I also like gingerbread cookies.
Ooh I love Pecan Sandies!
my favorite cookies are pizzelles!
I had to look it up; didn’t know the name, but those are my husband’s favorite too!
My favorite Christmas Cookie are Thumbprints!
Always a great choice for the holidays.
I <3 every Christmas Cookie. EXCEPT the ones with Cinnamon cuz I'm allergic.
– Danielle Priser
Oh no! No fun to be allergic to cinnamon! Good thing there are SO many choices without cinnamon though!
I LOVE ginger cookies. They are so yummy.
Yummy! Thank you for entering!
Oatmeal Cashew cookies have got to be my most favorite…sigh So yummy!!!
That sounds delicious!
My favorite Christmas cookies is sugar cookies 🙂
Good choice!
peanut butter cookies any time of the year
Yum! I love those too.
My favorite Christmas cookie are Texas Kiss Cookies
Those sound good!
Gingerbread!
Yummy!! Everything about those says Christmas.
Sugar Cookies!
Good choice!
Favorite Christmas cookie has too be…… Cucidati – Italian Fig Cookies. Hubby is from a huge Italian family so tons of cookies to choose from but these are amazing!
Ooh those sound really good!!
Sugar cookie.
Good choice!
I’m going to make pfeffernusse cookies this weekend. They are getting so hard to find in the store. They are a German, dark, spice cookie I love.
Yum!! I saw some recently…I forgot where. Never tried them, but they look tasty!
I like chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies
Yum! Two of my favorites!
No bake chocolate crinkle cookies are my favorite holiday cookies. They are also my kids favorite ones to make.
I love those too! So easy and so tasty! I forgot to make those this past year so I’ll have to make it a New Year’s snack.
I like sugar cookies and chocolate chip but buckeyes are my favorite.
Buckeyes are tasty!
I Love Love Love Chocolate Star Cookies and Spritz cookies.
Yummy! Spritz are so fun to make too!
Can’t beat just a good ol frosted sugar cookie!
Great choice!
I love extremely thin and really golden brown almost crispy sugar cookies.
They are soo good that way!
My favorite cookie is a butter cookie with sprinkles.
Yummy! Thanks for entering!
I love Buttercream Frosted Sugar Cookie Cutouts!!!
Good choice!!
I love no bake oatmeal cookies
Those are a favorite here too!
It’s not really a cookie, but I love making buckeyes for the holidays.
I’m not a huge cookie person either, but I love eating them around Christmas!
I’m not a big cookie person… but, my friend’s parents use to make Italian Cookies (no clue what they were) and they always tasted so wonderful.
Me either unless it’s Christmas. Anything Italian is good 😉
My favorite holiday cookie is white chip macadamia.
Great choice! Those are good!
I love baking sugar and gingerbread cookies with my kids. https://merlotmommy.com
Those are so much fun to bake and decorate as a family!
This recipe seems so different, but so good!!! Pinning it to try!! My favorite is Welsh Cake Cookies! 🙂
Thank you! It is good! I’ve never had Welsh Cake Cookies, but it sounds like something I’d like!
My favorite cookie is chocolate chip! 🙂
Good choice!
Wow, I have never considered putting mashed potatoes into a cookie before!
You can’t even tell they are there!
I make cookies from traditional generations-old family recipes.
I love that! Family recipes are the best!
Oh wow.. never heard of this. will have to try this!
Let me know how you like it! They taste great!
Gingerbread cookies are my favorite holiday cookie, although I love thumbprint cookies with green and red centers, too.
Both good choices!
Pecan Fingers sound so yummy
Those are my FAVORITE!
Pumpkin rolls
Ooh those sound fun!
MY all time is always good Ol chocolate chip! Can never go wrong! BUT these look incredible!
Chocolate chip is definitely a classic! Thanks!
M&M cookies
Yummy! Thanks for entering!
Divinity is my favorite, thanks!
Kim Reid
Love Chocolate Chip Cookies, too!
Kim Reid
Definitely!
Those are good! I haven’t had those in a long time!
I like iced sugar cookies.
Definitely a classic!
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Made these and they turned out really good! I just made the cookie and didn’t dip in chocolate. Next time will try that!! Thank you for the recipe.
I’m wondering how you store these. Not that they will last long lol but with the mashed potato baked in, is it still okay to store in an air tight container outside of fridge?
Thank you for the feedback! I am so happy you enjoyed them. I recommend you test some dipped in chocolate first, to make sure it suits your taste. My kids enjoy them in chocolate, but I’ve never gotten behind the taste. I prefer mine plain (though they don’t look as pretty).
I personally store them in an airtight container on the counter, and they usually last a few days.
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