These homemade Shortbread Cookies are a super simple, buttery and sweet treat, perfect for Christmas time or a cookie exchange! I’ve taken this classic recipe and made it even better. You absolutely ...

Shortbread is great for sharing, especially at Christmas time. The delicious, buttery biscuit is made with three everyday ingredients - butter, sugar and flour - and it is super easy to make.

Cream together all ingredients but the eggs and the flours. Once the ingredients look light and fluffy, add eggs one at a time. Mix the remaining flour in. Refrigerate for a minimum of 2 hours and up ...

This year, the Star’s annual cookie calendar begins with the basics: shortbreads, sugar cookies, biscotti and chocolate chip. These cookie doughs act as blank canvases. Add nuts, substitute ...

In our column Fake It or Make It we test a homemade dish against its prepackaged counterpart to find out what's really worth cooking from scratch. Up against the Christmas season's riot of ...

Emma Duckworth is an expert baker, half French and half British. She uses both influences to create her recipes. She specialises in simple, accessible everyday treats as well as more advanced bakes ...

Often, simple is best when it comes to food and nowhere is that truism more apt than when we're talking shortbread. It's little more than flour, butter and sugar -- and not even very much sugar at ...

One of our favourite desserts at the moment is walnuts baked into a basic shortbread recipe, cooked in two discs, cooled and filled with feijoas and ricotta. It’s not too sweet, and quite impressive.

The rosemary-salted caramel is revolutionary. You would never think to pair the two ingredients, but rosemary adds a mature depth to this normally too-sweet treat. And the basic shortbread recipe is ...