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We have a <a href="/recipes/homemade-shortbread">classic shortbread recipe</a>, sprinkilicious funfetti, honey shortbread and irresistible chocolate chunk shortbread. Whether you like light muscovado vanilla shortbread or prefer crumbly <a href="/recipes/shortbread-fingers">shortbread fingers</a>, we're sure you will find a recipe to inspire you. 
 
Our <a href="/recipes/cherry-shortbread-dough">cherry shortbread dough</a> is perfect for freezing and quickly popping in the oven. Vegan and calorie conscious bakers will rejoice at our shortbread recipes too.

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Shortbread is a delicious treat that can be enjoyed either on its own or with a warm drink. Explore our variety of shortbread recipes and bake one today

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This is a delicious low sugar shortbread, soft, light, and perfect for a perfect for a 'not so naughty' snack. With each bite, the buttery crumbs will melt in your mouth. <a href="https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/SearchResults/truvia">Truvia For Baking</a> keeps the sweet taste we love just without the sugar.

Low Sugar Shortbread

These honey shortbread biscuits have a subtle honey flavour and a soft shortbread texture and melt in the mouth. These shortbread biscuits go perfectly with a coffee and tea.&nbsp;

Honey Shortbread

These gloriously decadent shortbreads are a treat for the taste buds. As moreish as they are scrumptious, they’re the epitome of the phrase “naughty but nice.” Perfect for sharing – though&nbsp;you may not want to. This recipe featured in the 2013 edition of The Little Book of Treats.&nbsp;The Little Book of Treats is produced by Macmillan Cancer Support and 100% of the proceeds go towards helping people affected by cancer.

Salted Caramel Shortbread

This easy, buttery, vanilla shortbread is a real crowd-pleaser. Made with unrefined light muscovado sugar it has a unique warm honey colour and creamy fudge flavour and the rich depth of flavour makes this shortbread truly irresistible.

Light Muscovado Vanilla Shortbread

This delicious crisp shortbread makes a great dessert when stacked with fresh raspberries and strawberries. A wonderful dessert to serve at a dinner party or summer BBQ. This recipe featured in the second series of Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard on Channel 4.

Summer Berry Shortbread

The secret of this shortbread finger recipe&nbsp;success is the inclusion of semolina. This gives the shortbread&nbsp;that special crunch.&nbsp;&nbsp; These shortbread fingers are best served with a cup of tea mid morning or that point in the afternoon where all you want is a good cup of tea and a biscuit.&nbsp;

Shortbread Fingers

This coffee shortbread recipe is a twist on a classic recipe and great served with a coffee cappucino.&nbsp; The wholemeal flour adds a light nutty note to blend with the expresso and chocolate.

Coffee Shortbread

What could be a more perfect gift for your friends than a ready to bake shortbread dough? Just slice and bake, and in 20 minutes you will have fresh biscuits ready for festive guests.

Cherry Shortbread Dough

How to make shortbread isn't as big a mystery as you would think. Once you have mastered the basic technique of shortbread you can add a personal touch mixing and matching different flavours and additions.&nbsp;
We love this Chocolate Chunk Shortbread recipe as it is the equivalent of shortbread chocolate chip cookies...but with all the added buttery goodness.&nbsp;

Chocolate Chunk Shortbread

What could be more perfect that a few bites of buttery homemade shortbread?
This easy shortbread recipe can be made with just four ingredients, and it's the ideal snack for your mid-afternoon tea break.
We also love making these shortbread rounds for friends and family - they're a thoughtful gift idea and if you package them up securely, they travel well, too.
<h3>Should I make shortbread with cold or room temperature butter?</h3>
When you're making our shortbread recipe, start with butter that's refrigerator-cold to prevent the biscuit dough from warming up too fast, which can make it greasy and difficult to roll.
If the dough does get soft or sticky as you're rolling or cutting it, just put it in the refrigerator for 10 or 15 minutes to chill the butter.

Homemade shortbread recipe

If you are watching your weight but still want a treat, try these delicious low sugar biscuits. This recipe makes 20 biscuits.

Low Sugar Shortbread Biscuits

This vegan shortbread is really easy to make. You end up with a crumbly buttery biscuit with a delicate flavour. This recipe is perfect as an everyday biscuit, but if you'd like to make a variation in flavour, we have got a really tasty <a data-item-id="799da489-85f6-5968-9f00-a24bb19661de" href="">orange and dark chocolate version</a>.&nbsp;

Easy Vegan Shortbread

These traditional Scottish petticoat tails shortbread date back to the 12th century and have a lovely buttery and crumbly texture. Instead of semolina you could use rice flour or if you want a more melt in the mouth texture use cornflour. We've included a classic shortbread recipe video below to help if you get stuck.

Scottish Petticoat Tails Shortbread

This vegan shortbread recipe is delicately flavoured with orange and dark chocolate, a combo that really works and which really brings the shortbread to life. This timeless British classic biscuit is perfect for friends and family, or even just to make up a batch for yourself. Taste and texture is not compromised even though it's vegan so why not batch bake these and have a supply in your cupboard ready and waiting to dunk straight into your next cuppa? We'd love to hear your thoughts, why not leave a recipe review once you've given them a go?

Vegan Dark Chocolate & Orange Shortbread

Our vegan shortbread dough is so easy to make and only requires 4 ingredients! We've replaced butter with vegan butter, because there is no need to miss out on the classic biscuit if you are vegan. 
 
The vegan shortbread dough can also be used as a festive gift! Here's what you need to make a tasty vegan gift:
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 <li>After you prepare it, instead of shaping it into a ball, cut the dough into 3 pieces and roll each piece into a log, about 4-5cm thick.</li>
 <li>Sprinkle some demerara sugar onto a tray. Roll each sausage in the sugar to coat the outside completely. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate.</li>
 <li>To wrap for gifting, cut 3 pieces of baking parchment into 25cm x 25 cm and wrap each biscuit dough. Secure with ribbons at either end to form a cracker shape.</li>
 <li>Write the cooking instructions (see steps below) on a label and attach to the ribbon. Give as heart-warming ready to bake gifts.</li>
 <li>To cook, preheat the oven to 180°C&nbsp;(fan 160°C, gas mark 4). Line a baking tray with parchment paper. Slice the dough into 10 even sized discs and bake for 12-15 minutes, or until bottom is slightly golden. Remove from the oven and cool on the tray for 10 minutes.</li>
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Vegan Shortbread Dough

Lovely and light and perfect with a cup of tea, these orange and rose water shortbread fingers are the ideal mid afternoon snack. As this recipe uses Truvia, they are only 130 calories per finger.

Reduced Sugar Orange & Rose Water Shortbread

These Orange &amp; Ginger Shortbread Stars are a perfectly simple recipe for all to get stuck into this Christmas period. With fresh orange zest, ground ginger and Billington's golden caster sugar, these shortbread biscuits are beautifully spiced and full of flavour. &nbsp;

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