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.

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 ...

To adorn these buttery, chocolatey shortbread cookies, Helm Sinskey will make reindeer faces using a fork to imitate fur and candy pearls or red hots for eyes; or, more simply, she'll just dust ...

Shortbread biscuits fill the kitchen with a wonderful buttery freshly-baked smell. So simple and easy to flavour with your own choice of chocolate chips, nuts and fruit zest. Kids will love making ...

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

These glitzy and glittery Union Jack biscuits are the perfect bake to bring to a Coronation or Eurovision party. You will be suitably covered in glitter and sprinkles after making them, ready for ...

Shortbread cookies are one of the simplest cookies out there—all you need is butter, sugar and flour to make these rich, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth cookies. The high butter content gives ...