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.

Break out your cookie cutters for these intensely chocolatey (and buttery) cookies. A 1996 F&W Best New Chef, Maria Helm Sinskey is the culinary director of Robert Sinskey Vineyards in Napa Valley ...

Shortbread is a traditional New Year’s Day treat believed to bring good luck. It is incredibly easy to make with a handful of ingredients. Scotland is known for its big celebration of New Year ...

The world has Scotland to thank for shortbread, the buttery, rich, and versatile cookie. The first known recipe for the sweet treat was published in 1736, in a Scottish cookbook by a woman known as ...

This chocolate chip shortbread recipe uses the super-easy 1:2:3 ratio method, then adds loads of yummy chocolate chips. Brilliant for making and eating with a cup of tea or gifting to friends and ...

Winter is a time to indulge and there is no better feeling than dunking your favourite biscuit into a cup of tea, and it is incredibly easy to bake for yourself in no time at all. Mary Berry’s ...

Banana chips, caramel, shortbread and flakes of sea salt. Try resisting that (and if you can’t find hard banana chips for this recipe, you can use the chewier ones instead.) Preheat the oven to ...

2022 F&W Best New Chef Caroline Schiff uses it to make picture-perfect cookies. Audrey Morgan is an associate food editor at Food & Wine with over seven years of experience covering food and drinks.

In some desserts, an extra kick of salt — where it is notably detected — not only tames the sugar, but enhances umami.