Do you like shortbread?

[TheTecknician]

It's one of those foods that I never buy myself but often have it given at Christmas. I don't dislike it as such but I find it a little too sweet for my taste - that's why I prefer biscuits like HobNobs and Lotus Biscoff. Cheap shortbread is grim compared to the stuff made with clotted cream.

Get the proper stuff from Scotland....its absolutely gorgeous 😍 walkers are the best. Got some for Christmas.... lightly spiced with nutmeg and cinnamon 😋

Same

I only like homemade shortbread. The shop bought stuff is really stodgy and disappointing. Sadness in biscuit form😆 I make my own from a recipe in my mum’s old 1970s church cookery book. The shortbread has a bit of bite, yet melts in your mouth and has that slight tinge of sourness, which sounds revolting but is lovely. Reminds me of my childhood. Sometimes I half cover it in chocolate or add chocolate chips. But it doesn’t need chocolate tbf.

Good shortbread just tastes of butter, sugar and salt and tastes much less sweet than hobnobs to me

Exactly. Proper shortbread has a purity of taste.

Love the tinned M and S shortbread. Buttery and not too sweet.

No - after youve made it once you realise the amount of sugar in it!

A lot of shop bought shortbread is very average, as are a lot of the brands that do the type of tins you get at Christmas. I was given a tin from M&S and it was very meh.

The best supermarket one for me is Lidl Deluxe All Butter shortbread fingers. It's ridiculously good.

I fucking love it, I can’t buy it often because I’d eat the pack in one sitting.

Ooh I loooove good quality, buttery shortbread! But I have to eat gluten free these days, and they're always full of xanthan gum and crumbly yet slimy, and taste fishy... 😢

Love it. All time favourite biscuit.

@JacknDiane @muddyford I’m glad I’m not the only one. Horrible stuff seems to be everywhere at the moment, including puddings contaminated with it.

I make chocolate chip shortbread for local fund raising events, it always sells out before the other cake type offerings. My son's scout leaders are also happy when he takes a box to scout camps.

Don’t see how you can find shortbread to sweet compared to hobnobs and biscoff, I find the opposite, I’m sure they have considerably more sugar in them, not to mention palm oil.
Decent shortbread’s fantastic and so easy to make at home.

Love shortbread. Id rather have chocolate chip shortbread than a cookie. And its so easy to make so the kids "help" with some as an activity regularly. Its a favourite for everyone in our house

I make my own - sometimes put dark chocolate chips in - delicious!

I would never buy it, or desire it, or crave it. But if someone gives me a piece, I really enjoy it.

Shop bought, not so much and it's often quite nasty now. I presume because butter is being replaced by oils now. But home made shortbread is just wonderful. Million calories a bite though!

Funny you should ask this, i love shortbread & have v find memories of my grandparents always having the circular type that breaks into triangles. I adored it as a child.

I bought a pack of butter shortbread fingers in Aldi yesterday after seeing a good review online (& ingredients are good) but i haven't opened them yet.

No, so dry and bland.

That revolting biscoff stuff is way sweeter than shortbread.

It's my favourite biscuit, but I prefer homemade with semolina. M&S and Asda have the best if I don't get chance to make it.

The Lidl ‘deluxe’ black pack ABS is made by Duncans of Deeside and they do a choc chip version too, it’s really good, as is Walkers brand in the co-op ❤️

@ScaredSceptic agree, just saw your post

Deans of Huntly 😋

Like making home made shortbread