Instead of using a rolling pin to make the flaky pastry for her delicate shortbread bars, Melissa McKinney relies on a grater. She chills the dough, grates it into a baking dish, then tops it lightly ...

Professional pastry chefs aren’t immune to the convenience of ready-made cookies. From shortbread to Oreos, these are their top picks. Amelia Schwartz is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor who has ...

Even if you’ve moved past the whole salted caramel thing, you’re still gonna want to give this little pastry a chance. Because it’s less about the salt + caramel combo and more about the caramel + ...

Crumbly, crunchy, and perfectly rich, shortbread recipes (like these lemon shortbread cookies) are well worth the effort they require. While it can take some time to chill and roll out the dough for ...

This crumbly, delicate pastry is the foundation for most of the sweet tarts in this chapter. It can be a little hard to handle, so if you are new to making pastry, I suggest you add the egg yolk.

Something’s astir at a few of the best bakery addresses in Paris, and you can tell by the shape of their tarts. They are decidedly, perfectly, unexpectedly square. “We were a bit frustrated with round ...

Professional pastry chefs aren't immune to the convenience of ready-made cookies. From shortbread to Oreos, these are their top picks. We all have a nostalgic connection to the sweet treats we ate as ...