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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the U.S., salted and unsalted butter hovers around 80 percent butterfat and the rest is water. European butter ranges between 83 percent and 86 percent butterfat. “Salted butter is made from cream ...