Buttery shortbread

Looking for the best shortbread cookie recipe to stack on your holiday cookie tray? Melt in your mouth, buttery Scottish-style shortbread cookies are delicious year round, but especially great during the holidays! Enjoy the basic version or customize with add-ins, toppings or by dipping them in chocolate.

I live in Missouri, but many of our family recipes come from New Zealand, where I lived as a youngster. I proudly claim a Down Under heritage! These special-occasion cookies bring back warm and sweet memories of my childhood, and I'm going to make sure they're passed on to the next generation in my family—no matter where they live. —A. Swenson, Camdenton, Missouri

These shortbread cookies have an exciting play between sugar and salt with a full-on buttery flavor and perfectly crumbly texture. They are the platonic ideal of perfect shortbread.

Recipe video above. I’m a firm believer that shortbread cookies should be sinfully buttery and delectably tender. And these are, as great shortbread cookies should be, not that sweet, quite delicate and when you bite into them, they crumble softly, as demonstrated in the VIDEO! TRICK for clean cuts, no crumbles, is to slice halfway through baking.

This easy-to-follow shortbread recipe yields delicious melt-in-your-mouth biscuits with just three ingredients.

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This has to be the best traditional Scottish shortbread cookies recipe ever. It's full of light, flaky layers that are perfect with milk.

A classic 3-2-1 shortbread cookie that's tender, buttery and easy to make. Great for the days when you just want a cookie. #cookie #shortbread #butter

These melt in your mouth vanilla shortbread cookies are buttery and delightful. This recipe has both granulated and confectioner's sugar for the perfect texture. Easy to make and they store well for cookie boxes.

These shortbread brownies combine two classic desserts for the ultimate bar recipe. The shortbread base is buttery and tender and the brownie on top is rich, fudgy and perfectly decadent.

Get perfect Shortbread Cookies every time with this buttery, yet sweet Shortbread Cookie Recipe. Just in time for Christmas Cookie exchanges! #christmasrecipes #christmascookies #shortbread #easyrecipes

These soft, sweet, and buttery shortbread cookies only require 4 ingredients! BONUS: the cookie dough is easy to make days or even weeks ahead of time until ready to bake! #shortbread #cookies #dessert #holidays

Delicious, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies. These are lightly sweetened, classic-style shortbread cookies which uses powdered sugar for a tender crumb. If you're looking for a naturally sweetened option, check out these gluten and refined sugar free shortbread cookies.

Here's how to make homemade all butter shortbread biscuits that are buttery, melt-in-the-mouth and so easy to make.

Versatile Buttery Shortbread Crust