Get your stand mixers ready because holiday baking season is here! This time of year is pure magic when the kitchen comes alive with the delightful smell of cookies and cakes and other treats. It’s a ...

Alexa, play Christmas music. Besides five simple ingredients, that’s all that’s needed to set the mood for the most delicious time of the year. Christmas has me merrily baking and cooking away, and ...

As far back as baker Jen Musty can remember, the days leading up to Christmas have always been “a wonderful zoo” filled with sugar, butter and flour. When she was old enough to stand on a chair, Musty ...

Christmas cookie decorating can become an all-day production and include a multitude of different colored frostings, pastry bags, sprinkles, sugars, and other toppings. Garten prefers the “less is ...

Garten’s shortbread cookie recipe couldn’t be easier to make, with just five ingredients: flour, butter, sugar, vanilla extract, and salt. The shortbread hearts recipe was featured in a 2020 post on ...

Before Lisa Ludwinski opened Sister Pie’s brick-and-mortar bakery in Detroit in 2015, shortbread wasn’t really on her radar. She didn’t quite get the hype surrounding the simple, butter-based ...

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 ...

Tender, buttery shortbread cookies have been a mainstay in many households for decades. If your family enjoys the old-school cookie recipe, lavender shortbread cookies feature a light floral flavor as ...