My mother and I had the extreme pleasure of reviewing Mary’s MacLeods shortbread cookies for the past few weeks. We actually had to pace ourselves to keep them this long; they are sooo good! My mother even hid a few to keep for our guests on Christmas day as everyone in our household was devouring them!
Mary MacLeod’s Shortbread are delicious all butter shortbread cookies. The company was founded in 1981 by Mary MacLeod in a small shop under the marquee of the Capitol Theatre in Toronto. At that time, she was actually the first business in Canada devoted exclusively to making artisanal shortbread. After 35 years, even though Mary is now deceased, her retail store and bakery are still located in Toronto at 639 Queen Street East.
Mary’s shortbread cookies use the most high-quality ingredients such as pure Ontario creamery butter, premium Canadian flours, Belgian chocolate, and the freshest nuts. They are also well known for their amazing flavours like Chocolate Crunch, Dutch Chocolate, Hazelnut Crunch, Coconut, Espresso Chocolate, Orange Chocolate, Butterscotch, Traditional, and Maple Crunch!
You may choose between a wide selection of Signature shortbreads in decorative packaging like the signature Tins, signature Clear Decorative, signature Jars, signature Baker’s Box, signature Shapes, and Butterscotch Crumbs. You can also purchase seasonal packages for holiday themes such as Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, and Mother’s Day.
Mary MacLeod’s Shortbread cookies Review
The Signature Tin
The tin contains 35 shortbread cookies in their signature Chocolate Crunch, Dutch Chocolate, and Traditional shortbread flavours. If you’re searching for a perfect array of cookies to please all of your guests this holiday, then the Signature Tin is perfect for your family! The Dutch Chocolate cookie is by far one of the best chocolate shortbread cookies I’ve ever tasted, and I can only imagine how even more delicious it must be to pair it with a warm cup of traditional hot chocolate!
You truly can never go wrong with a traditional shortbread cookie with its melt in your mouth sweetness! This tin is packed with both buttery and chocolatey goodness!
The Butterscotch Bars
Each Butterscotch Bar offers a buttery blend of shortbread, caramel, and butterscotch chips for a flavourful and chewy bar. These bars could easily be considered as a dessert by how sweet they are! I couldn’t stop eating them! They’re soft, tender, and the caramel paired with the butterscotch chips make these shortbread bars so chewy that you can’t help but savour them for as long as possible, and find yourself craving more afterwards!
This perfectly satisfied my sweet tooth all in one delicious bar! I found they even paired incredibly well with a glass of warm milk! Quite frankly, I think I now may have found a new favourite holiday treat!
The Snowman Sleeve
These snowman shortbread cookies wearing tartan scarves with little chocolate chip buttons are perfect for dunking in a glass of milk and in your favourite tea or coffee. I’ve always loved cookies that tend to be soft and the perfect size for dunking in a glass of milk (or even hot chocolate!), and I’m delighted to say that the Snowman Sleeve Shortbread met my expectations and more! With the added bonus of coming in an adorable shape, these cookies were so soft, mellow, and immediately melt in your mouth upon that very first bite!
I also particularly enjoyed that the cookie retains its shortbread taste with just a hint of chocolate from the three chocolate chip buttons. Mmm, my mouth is already watering just thinking about them! Look no further if you’re searching for the ideal treat to please your kids, and your kids at heart, this holiday season!
The Chocolate Crunch Shortbread Ornament Tin
This large ornament tin is filled with 6 yummy signature Chocolate Crunch shortbread cookies and is the ideal gift to give this Christmas season. It also makes a perfect decoration for the Christmas tree, as the ornament is a beautiful round, red tin with adorable little designs and a golden bow. It can also just as easily be displayed on a table, as the bottom part of the ornament is flat! The ornament really is quite gorgeous, and the cookies are so delicious that it makes for a perfect gift if you’re searching to please the cookie lover in your family this holiday.
The more “crunchy” bit of the Chocolate Crunch Shortbread cookies isn’t actually the shortbread itself, but the chocolate chunks inside of it! It’s such a sweet twist on the traditional cookie, and I loved that about it! Crunching those delicious pieces of chocolate with every bite was undoubtedly what I enjoyed most about this cookie! You can find me eating far too many of these this holiday season!
4 Inch Round of Mini Traditional Shortbread Cookies
These mini traditional shortbread cookies are made by hand and in small batches with butter, sugar, and flour to give you the awesome full flavour of the shortbread cookies. These cookies are the perfect size for satisfying your shortbread cravings! They come in such a fun, small shape that they immediately reminded me of little buttons when I first received them. Pop one (or a few) in your mouth, and wait for the cookie to melt and dissolve until your taste buds become overwhelmed with shortbread goodness! For such a small cookie, I was pleasantly surprised to discover how soft and buttery they are! They still retain their incredible texture and taste that I’ve come to adore about Mary MacLeod’s Traditional Shortbreads!
These mini traditional shortbread cookies are made by hand and in small batches with butter, sugar, and flour to give you the awesome full flavour of the shortbread cookies. These cookies are the perfect size for satisfying your shortbread cravings! They come in such a fun, small shape that they immediately reminded me of little buttons when I first received them. Pop one (or a few) in your mouth, and wait for the cookie to melt and dissolve until your taste buds become overwhelmed with shortbread goodness! For such a small cookie, I was pleasantly surprised to discover how soft and buttery they are! They still retain their incredible texture and taste that I’ve come to adore about Mary MacLeod’s Traditional Shortbreads!
Where to find Mary Macleod’s shortbread
Mary MacLeod’s Shortbread cookies make a heart-warming gift for anyone during the cold Canadian winter. They make perfect Christmas gifts for co-workers, your kid’s teachers, friends, and relatives. These rich and flavourful shortbread cookies will surely please everyone on your gift list!
You can find Mary Macleod’s Shortbread cookies at select gourmet shops and boutique retailers across Canada. They also ship to the United States and internationally.
Want to find out more about Mary MacLeod’s Shortbread? Visit them on their website, and connect with them on their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages!
Disclaimer: I received products from Mary MacLeod’s Shortbread s in order to write this review. The views I shared are my own.
The Chocolate Crunch sounds really good…but traditional shortbread is my fave!!
Love the sounds of the espresso chocolate
I’d love to try the Hazelnut Crunch
I would absolutely love to try the The Chocolate Crunch Shortbread cookies!
I think I would love to try the Chocolate Crunch, but they all sound so good!!
I would love to try the Butterscotch Bar Cookies. It is hard to only pick one because there are so many flavours that sound delicious.
The Cranberry Almond sounds good
Chocolate Crunch Shortbread. thanks
I would love to try the Traditional Shortbread Cookies.
I would most like to try the Butterscotch bars. Butterscotch has been one of my favorite flavours, ever since I was a kid, and these sound lovely. Thank you for the chance.
Would love to try the Chocolate Crunch one, mind you I think I would have fun trying them all!
I’d like to try the Hazelnut Chocolate!
OMG.. There is so much.. I would love to try the Mint Chocolate and the Orange Chocolate.
I always go for the MapleCrunch first
I’d love to try the Mary MacLeod’s Snowman Shortbread cookies
I would love to try the chocolate crunch!
I want to try the butterscotch bars and the chocolate crunch
Chocolate Crunch sounds delicious to me!
I would love to try the Hazelnut Crunch
I would love to try the Mary McLeod’s Chocolate Crunch Shortbread first!
They all look so good but I think the Butterscotch Bars would be my favorite
We are a house of chocolate lovers so I would like to sample the Dutch Chocolate cookie! Shortbread is actually my absolute favorite cookie so the Signature Tin would be another favorite in my home.
I would love to try the Chocolate Crunch. They sound so good.
I would love to try the chocolate crunch
I would like to try the Espresso Chocolate flavor among others. There is no bad shortbread!
I would love to try them all! They look sooooo good! But if I have to pick one I would say the butterscotch bar cookies
hazelnut crunch
I*d like to try the Maple Crunch.
I would love to try the chocolate crunch and actually would want to hang the ornament on my Christmas tree!
I’d love to try the Hazelnut Crunch
I would love to try the Chocolate Crunch Shortbread
The Cranberry Almond sounds delcious
I would love to try the chocolate crunch so bad, I love my chocolate. thank you
The snowmen are adorable!
The Butterscotch bars sound so good! I love gifting shortbread to my mom each year.
I’m torn between the Hazelnut Crunch or the Butterscotch bars….
I want to try the orange chocolate,,yum!
I would love to try the Butterscotch Bars
I’d like to try the Traditional Shortbread cookies and see how they taste.
Oh my goodness – I want the butterscotch bars!
Ohhh, gimmie a hazelnut crunch.
I would love to try the chocolate crunch cookies. looks amazing.
Definitely the dutch chocolate
The Hazelnut Crunch would be perfect!
I would love to try the Butterscotch Bars.
any shortbread, chocolatecrunch
The Butterscotch Bars sounds so yummy
The chocolate crunch shortbread sounds awesome!
love to try the Cranberry Almond
I’d love to try the Hazelnut Crunch cookies.
I would love to try the Dutch Chocolate.
I’d love to try the butterscotch bars!
I would love to try their Maple Crunch cookie.
love to try the Cranberry Almond!
oh my gosh which wouldnt i wanna go with!! The hazelnut crunch sounds delish!
I would love to try the mint chocolate cookies
I would love to try the Hazelnut Crunch
chocolate crunch or the butterscotch bars! shortbread is my all time holiday fave
I’d love to try the Maple Crunch. The shop is in my neighbourhood!
Hazelnut chocolate sounds delicious.
I would love to try the hazelnut crunch flavor! Thanks
I love hazelnuts and crunchy foods so would love to try the hazelnut crunch cookies.
I would love to try the Chocolate Crunch Shortbread!
I would love to try the Maple crunch
I would like to try the Hazelnut Chocolate flavour.
The Hazelnut sound delicious
The Cranberry Almond sounds lucious.
The butterscotch bars!
The plain shortbread cookies are my fave!
Definitely the Hazelnut Crunch!
Mmmmm Espresso Chocolate.
I love shortbread. My fave is traditional but I would like to try orange/chocolate shortbread.
Orange/chocolate is one I’ve never tried before so would go for this.
Is “all of them” an acceptable answer? I find it hard to decide on a specific shortbread when I love shortbread in general and they all look so delicious!
Great answer!
I would love to try the Traditional Shortbread Cookies.
Sadly, I can’t eat them, but my family would all love Butterscotch.
Espresso chocolate sounds yummy.
I would like to try the chocolate crunch.
I would love to try the Chocolate Crunch Shortbread 🙂
How about Hazelnut Crunch.
The mini traditional shortbread cookies, but it ALL looks delicious!
Espresso chocolate pls, entry pls
I’m still wanting to try the Hazelnut crunch.
The chocolate crunch!!
I would like to try hazelnut crunch.
The Hazelnut chocolte but lets be real, I love shortbread and want every single one to try .
Have never tried these cookies but they do look yummy!
Chocolate Crunch Shortbread sounds so yummy!
I would so love to try the Chocolate Crunch, it’s all I’ve put on my Christmas wish list!
Chocolate shortbread but you had me at cookie!
The Maple Crunch cookies would be all mine and I wouldn’t share even one, LOL.
I would love to try Chocolate Crunch Shortbread.
I’d like to try the chocolate crunch. Yummy.
I would love to try chocolate crunch shortbread cookies
These cookies are so good that I hope I get some under the tree or before even better! I love to bake shortbread but I would much rather just eat beautifully baked Mary McLeods and of course share with my guests…
all of them!!
I’d love to try the Dutch chocolate!
I would love to try the chocolate crunch shortbread cookies, the look so yummy!
I would love to try orange chocolate shortbread. I like the mix of orange and chocolate very much.
I have been inhaling the cookies visually of the chocolate crunch shortbread. I bet they are delicious. I Love Shortbread.
I would love to try the Espresso chocolate
would love to try these – especially the original kinds. thanks
Chocolate crunch.
Would love the Dutch or Chocolate Crunch cookies.
I would love to try the Hazelnut Crunch
The Butterscotch Bar Cookies
I should like to try the butterscotch bars. Yum!
This morning I am yearning to try a Chocolate crunch shortbread cookie.
Those Butterscotch bars look so inviting. I would love to try one.
Today I am hungering for a Dutch Chocolate Shortbread. I love shortbread of any kind but these are exceptional.
I would love to try the Chocolate Crunch
I’d like to try the Traditional Shortbread Cookies!
I’d love to try the Butterscotch Bars, they look so yummy.
Old Fashion Gal – Have a teenage son – tradition is everything. Having said that: Our choice Mary MacLeod’s Shortbread Traditional Tin
I’d like to try the Hazelnut Crunch.
I would most like to try the Traditional Shortbread Cookies.
I’d love to try the Maple crunch shortbread cookies.
I would go for Chocolate Crunch
Chocolate Crunch would be my choice
Oh, yummy, traditional shortbread. Most pkg cookies are tasteless but these are a delight.
I have a craving for a butterscotch bar.
I’d like to try either the Maple or Butterscotch Crunch
I would like to try the Maple Crunch
I’d like to try the snowmen. They’re absolutely adorable!
The butterscotch bars look drool worthy.
I would love to try the chocolate crunch shortbread because quite frankly, I’m totally addicted to chocolate!