While it requires only three components, shortbread is prone to one common assembly pitfall. Fortunately, it's a super easy ...

Your family will love these easy tasty cookies! Ingredients • 1 cup butter softened • 2/3 cup powdered sugar • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract • 2 cups all-purpose flour • 3/4 cup mini chocolate chips • ...

Looking for the ultimate cookie? This one, from Jesse Szewczyk’s “Cookies: The New Classics” (Clarkson Potter, $27.50), hits all the buttons. Buttery shortbread. Gooey caramel. Nutty peanut butter. Oh ...

It’s easy to think of butter as just butter. But, in baking, temperature completely changes how it behaves in your dough or ...

Variations on the classic butter-forward recipe include cocoa, espresso powder and cayenne pepper. Another recipe includes orange zest and chopped pistachios. Picnic desserts are simpler desserts.

Shortbread is one of those cookies that is so easy, and yet so perfect. Delicate and buttery, crisp and creamy, these cookies are held together with just the right amount of flour and are balanced ...

Pastry chef and activitst Natasha Pickowicz is stopping by the TODAY kitchen to bake up a couple of her favorite recipes from her cookbook, "More Than Cake: 100 Baking Recipes Built for Pleasure and ...

During the summer between my junior and senior years in college, I worked at a summer camp in Scotland. It was quite a large camp, serving hundreds of young people over several sessions. I helped run ...