Espresso shortbread cookies on their own sound delicious, even better with CHOCOLATE!

Those cookies look mighty gorgeous and ever so tempting!

Cheers,

Rosa

wow, Ivonne, that’s a hard thing to give up with all your baking. good luck avoiding that ever so present temptation to lick the spoon!

It takes real courage and devotion to give up sweets while also committing to write about only chocolate for a month!

It is merenda time right now and I would really like to have some of them here witha cup of hot lemon tea…
Ciao.

I admire your courage, my friend.
And I love baking cookies, too - especially because it’s easier to share cookies than a cake, for instance… More people can eat and smile!

Wow, I thought I was hard core for giving up chocolate - giving up sweets would be near impossible for me! Good luck and more power to you!

Wow, posting chocolate all month and now giving up sugar. Your are really a glutton for punishment! The cookies look grand. I hope you put two in the freezer to try at the end of the 6 weeks.

Those cookies look amazing! Coffee and chocolate…you can’t get any more perfect than that I haven’t made cookies in a while…hmmm…

Giving up sweets for lent? Whoa! Good luck and keep strong! Keep your mind on savories!

No sweets for 6 weeks?!?!??!? Wow, now that is called self-control!! I don’t think I could ever do that…

Giving up sweets? Whoa! I’ve never been so glad to be a lapsed Catholic.

These cookies look adorable and delicious. You can’t go wrong with chocolate + coffee, and rare is the chocolate dessert in my kitchen that doesn’t get at least a pinch of espresso powder.

– Us vs. Food

Good Luck!
(Cute story for you - last year, my non-Catholic husband decided to give up after dinner desserts for lent. Seventeen years together and this was the first time he’d ever done something for lent. Funny part was, he did indeed give up after dinner desserts. But not breakfast desserts, lunch desserts or mid afternoon snack desserts. He would say no thank you to any decadent thing I made at dinner, but then would have a big piece for breakfast the next day!)

cookies! yum and you dipped them in chocolate, double yum!

Wow, no sweets? I wish you the best of luck. I guess I will have to eat extra for you:)

You’re not eating these?!!! Can you just send them my way? I’ll eat enough for both of us

Oh my goodnes, that is dedication and willpower (especially since your baking creations are exceptionally beautiful) - I’m very impressed.

Oh you crazy woman. Giving up sweets for Lent.

Giving us a whole month of chocolate recipes while you are eating no sweets—now that is true dedication! My tummy thanks you as this cookie recipe was made for me–espresso & chocolate!

Gorgeous cookies…I like the idea that each one is just a little different from the rest…and I admire your resolve to give up sweets for Lent…while blogging about Chocolate! Brave woman!!

So here’s what I’m thinking.. don’t hate me. These cookies, dipped into the Dracula’s Delight while reading The Historian. My heart is beating a bit quicker at the thought ot it! hee!

xoxox

you’re a better woman than i…. i could never give up sweets!

these cookies look great, esp dipped in chocolate you should try the chocolate dipped macadamia nut shortbread cookies in my blog after lent is over…

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OK, I am behind the times, but how can you give up sweets and yet post about chocolate every day!
My husband gave up chocolate for Lent this year… I made sure it was ok if I did not do the same.
He plans on doing chocolate this year and cheese next year to see which is harder…. he says he already knows it will be cheese, as I have been baking regularly for him in the non-chocolate catagory.
Blessings to you!