Professional pastry chefs aren’t immune to the convenience of ready-made cookies. From shortbread to Oreos, these are their top picks. Amelia Schwartz is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor who has ...

Crumbly, crunchy, and perfectly rich, shortbread recipes (like these lemon shortbread cookies) are well worth the effort they require. While it can take some time to chill and roll out the dough for ...

Something’s astir at a few of the best bakery addresses in Paris, and you can tell by the shape of their tarts. They are decidedly, perfectly, unexpectedly square. “We were a bit frustrated with round ...

This crumbly, delicate pastry is the foundation for most of the sweet tarts in this chapter. It can be a little hard to handle, so if you are new to making pastry, I suggest you add the egg yolk.