Editor’s Note: 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 ...

“This is my favorite cookie,” declared a friend with a well-known sweet tooth after devouring a few of these pecan shortbreads. This man has been nibbling sweets on a daily basis for more than 30 ...

Q. I’m hoping you can provide a recipe for the low-fat banana chocolate-chip coffeecake that was served at Starbucks during the summer months of 2006. I have had no luck finding it this summer. Can ...

Editor’s note: Living in the Colorado high country is pure joy. Baking in it isn’t. High altitude makes cookies spread in the pan, cakes fall, and few baked goods turn out as they do at sea level.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mix sugar and butter together. Add flour one cup at a time, blend together. (Note: The last 1 1/4 cup must be mixed by hand, as mixture becomes more firm.) Transfer ...

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 ...

Shortbread – once the province of home bakers and the supermarket import aisle – has gone tony. It is the cookie of the year, and last year, too, found in fancy bakeries, nestling up to ice creams on ...

When you’re making cookies, it doesn’t get much easier than shortbread. A basic combination of butter, sugar, flour and salt baked to crumbly richness, shortbread bakes in minutes. This version, made ...