Buttery shortbread is not only a favorite holiday treat but it makes a great gift. Our cookie platter would be lonely without it. My husband hails from Scotland, where shortbread is a BIG DEAL.

Lightly sweet and quite crumbly, shortbread cookies are a buttery wonder. They take minutes to make, are sturdy enough to package as gifts and improve with age. The simplest kinds of shortbread ...

Although I didn’t grow up with a tradition of making Christmas cookies, it’s hard to not get a twinkle in my eye when the season arrives and brings fun decorative tins of shareable cookies. A quick ...

Every self-respecting holiday cookie assortment includes shortbread, and these add a welcome citrusy brightness to all the other rich flavors, spices, chocolate, and nuts. For extra lemony flavor in ...

Sometimes you need one giant cookie for everyone to share. That idea is this cookie, made with a shortbread dough topped with almonds. Most shortbread is baked as one piece, scored first into lines, ...