Tag Archives: shortbread

• Blueberry Cheesecake Tart with a Shortbread Crust

  Submitted by Katrina on Tue, 28/08/2012 - 11:53

  Tags:blueberries, blueberry cheesecake tart, blueberry tart, cheesecake tart, Cooking, fruit, fruit tart, recipe, shortbread, shortbread tart crust, tart
  

  

  Blueberries are delicious. Even more so when they’re in season and fresh from the fields. The berries I used were not. They were on sale at the grocery store and that’s enough of a reason for me to try and do something fabulous with them. Farm ones just would have been even better.

  This started because I felt like cheesecake, and shortbread cookies. I didn’t feel like making a cheesecake though, and I had blueberries. I also love making tarts, mainly because I love how pretty a tart shell looks (I have a lot of idiosyncrasies).  Read more...

• Rolled Shortbread Cookies

  Submitted by Katrina on Wed, 11/01/2012 - 8:52

  Tags:christmas baking, christmas cookies, cookies, Cooking, rolled shortbread, rolled shortbread cookies, shortbread, shortbread cookies
  

  

  These are a family recipe and one that my Nana makes every year. They’re also my favorite Christmas cookie. I try to convince myself that they’re only a Christmas cookie because as soon as I stop thinking that way I’ll be making them every week, and no one needs dozens of shortbread cookies a week to eat! lol

  The one difference you may notice between these and your average shortbread cookie is the use of margarine. I’m sure that you could use all butter. In fact the recipe is written “1 lb butter (sub 1 cup margarine for 1 cup butter), so I’m sure at some point that’s how it was made. My Nana though, she’s always made it with the margarine, and I’ve never heard a complaint, so I see no reason to change things now.  Read more...