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 ...

Contrasting tastes and textures have wide appeal, and these cookies are a good example. A tender, sandy, subtle-tasting shortbread is paired with sweet, rich, gooey caramel frosting and crunchy nuts ...

You can almost turn any dessert into a bar. That's the beauty of this kind of dessert. And during the holidays, where cookie tables pop up at every celebration, showing up with a cookie in bar form is ...

High altitudes makes 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 the mountains ...

A winning combination, swirled like marble: good chocolate, caramel and a hint of salt. Salt Caramel Millionaire’s Shortbread Make ahead: The dough needs to be refrigerated for at least 1 hour and up ...

The crunchy base, the buttery caramel, the rich chocolate—no wonder it’s called millionaire’s shortbread. Surprisingly, though, this fanci-fied candy bar is easy to pull off at home (and the results ...

The deep, nutty flavor of these tender, buttery shortbread (the fourth recipe in the Basically Guide to Better Baking!) comes from pulverized pecans and store-bought dulce de leche, a confection of ...

It's a bake-sale favorite that never goes out of style. You can almost turn any dessert into a bar. That's the beauty of this kind of dessert. And during the holidays, where cookie tables pop up at ...

Welcome to Bon Appétit Bake Club, a community of curious bakers. Each month senior test kitchen editors Jesse Szewczyk and Shilpa Uskokovic share a must-make recipe and dive deep on why it works. Come ...