High altitudes make cookies spread in the pan, cakes fall, and few baked goods turn out as they do at sea level. This twice-monthly column presents recipes and tips that make baking in the mountains ...

Garten’s shortbread cookies are graded at an “easy” level and have just five ingredients. The dough comes together quickly in a mixer, is chilled, rolled out, and cut with a cutter. After baking, the ...

Editor’s note: High altitude makes cookies spread in the pan, cakes fall and few baked goods turn out as they do at sea level. This twice-monthly column presents recipes and tips that make baking in ...

When life gets busy, be it around the holidays or a family celebration, it can be tempting to try to make things go as quickly as possible. This can especially become the case with cooking and baking ...

Butter, flour, sugar and a little bit of salt. There’s not much that’s simpler than a shortbread. But for those of us who love to bake, it’s the perfect kind of recipe. Despite being made from a ...

Editor’s note: High altitudes makes cookies spread in the pan, cakes fall and few baked goods turn out as they do at sea level. This twice-monthly column presents recipes and tips that make baking in ...

If your butter isn’t at room temperature, cut it into a few pieces and microwave at 50-percent power in 5-second intervals, turning the butter between each burst. For extra texture and flavor, mix in ...

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

As the air turns warmer and the days stretch a little longer, I find myself drawn into the rhythm of baking. It doesn’t matter what’s in the oven—cookies, cakes, quick breads—what matters is that the ...

Everyone at the farmers market was talking about the pretzel shortbread cookies from Philadelphia’s Lost Bread Co. So I joined the snaking line to see what the fuss was about. They didn’t look like ...

Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies are all the goodness of melt-in-your-mouth shortbread combined with a little bit of ...

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