Shortbread gifts exude a timeless elegance that goes beyond trends. The classic, buttery goodness of a shortbread gift appeals to a wide range of tastes, making it a sophisticated and universally appreciated gift. Its simplicity and quality make it a timeless choice that can be enjoyed by individuals of all ages. Rich, buttery and moreish a shortbread gift that can't be forgotten.
A luxury shortbread gift can be incredibly versatile and suitable for a variety of occasions. Whether it's a birthday, anniversary, wedding, or a simple gesture of appreciation, the perfect shortbread gift fits seamlessly into any celebration. The best part is the diverse range of flavours here at The Shortbread Company, including milk chocolate, strawberry and white chocolate, all butter, and vegan options, which allows you to tailor the gift to the recipient's taste, making it a thoughtful and personalized choice for any event. Not only can you enjoy the variety of indulgent flavours, we have taken the shortbread gift idea to another level with a vegan range.
Giving shortbread as a gift creates a memorable and shareable experience. The act of sharing a delicious shortbread gift brings a sense of togetherness. Shortbread can be enjoyed with loved ones over a cup of coffee, shared during workplace celebrations, or savoured as a delightful indulgence during moments of relaxation. The shared experience of enjoying these delectable treats enhances the bond between individuals, making shortbread gifts a gesture that stays in the hearts and minds of both the giver and the recipient.
Discover the joy of giving with our exquisite shortbread selections. Whether it's for a celebration, a thoughtful gesture, or a simple moment of indulgence, our diverse range of flavors ensures there's a perfect shortbread gift for every occasion. Share the timeless elegance and irresistible taste of our shortbread with your loved ones. Make moments memorable – gift the delight of luxury shortbread today and visit the shop!
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Shortbread's simple yet magical ingredients include butter, sugar, and flour. It's the perfect example of how a few basic components can create something truly extraordinary.
One of shortbread's defining characteristics is its crumbly texture. The secret lies in the high butter content, which gives it that melt-in-your-mouth goodness.
Shortbread is incredibly versatile! While the classic version reigns supreme, you can find variations infused with flavors like chocolate, citrus, lavender, and even spices. There's a shortbread for every palate!
Have you ever wondered why shortbread is called short? It refers to the crumbly texture achieved by cutting the butter into small pieces, which inhibits gluten formation.
We hope these 10 shortbread fun facts have ignited your passion for shortbread! Share them with your loved ones and spread the joy of this irresistible treat. Stay tuned for more exciting updates and delicious inspiration.
Order Now to discover the exquisite world of luxury shortbread biscuits!
Wishing you a crumbly and delightful day!
And that my friend is a really great question.
While both shortbread are delicious, tasty, moreish, melt-in-the-mouth, use the same recipe and come in different flavours, not to mention they cost the same, the weight is the same, both are a great gift and you’ll love the taste of each shortbread product.
The difference is you! How you prefer to indulge, how you love to eat your treats.
Let’s take a look first, at reason you might want Mini Grag Bags of shortbread or Larger ones.
Do you like to nibble and take your time, making your treats last longer. Watching your weight perhaps? So you want a treat but not too much all in one go. Do you prefer mini things to dunk? Or one dunk = one bite on a smaller scale?
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Do you want a real size piece of shortbread that you can take big bites, or break in half and dunk into your tea? The packet won't last you as long anyway, so you want to make the most of it all in one sitting, maybe two. Or is it because you just want a bigger biscuit?
So while both are very similar the difference is you and your personality, we made them with you in mind! How you eat them is what matters.
What will you choose!
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Quickly following Valentine’s Day, and fittingly so, is National Strawberry Day!
We love strawberries - their gentle flavour adds sweetness to our buttery shortbread. They go wonderfully in smoothies, cheesecake, dipped in chocolate… Is your mouth-watering yet?
National Strawberry Day is celebrated in the US too - especially California, where 75% of the US’s strawberry crops are grown.
Ancient Romans believed strawberries have medicinal powers - we can get behind this! A fruity shortbread is a great way to catch up on some self-care…
Strawberries are a sweet snack all year round and they’re one of your five a day, though regrettably you can’t count our strawberry and white chocolate shortbread!
Say it with shortbread and give one of our luxury tins today.
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You probably know our wonderful founder, Diana. Initially, the idea for a baking business came from her daughters’ love for ultra fancy cupcakes, however cupcakes make too much mess! Back in 2017, Diana taught her girls to make shortbread instead and the recipe was a success - they made their first sale that very day.
After selling yummy shortbread to family and friends, Diana launched The Shortbread Company and never looked back. The orders got bigger and the flavours became more mouthwatering. There were huge corporate orders, lavish wedding bashes and an irresistible subscription service - the business has continued to thrive.
It all boils down to a love of shortbread. No matter what flavour you like, there is something for everyone. It’s a treat to indulge in, whatever time of day. Spoil yourself this National Shortbread Day - you can count on us to be tucking in to Diana’s amazing creations too!
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Christmas is a wonderful time of year where we can all spend time with family, relaxing and stuffing our faces. What do you make a beeline for in the supermarket at Christmas? Pigs in blankets? The Christmas cake? That fancy bottle of wine you only get on special occasions?
One of the best parts of Christmas is getting to show your loved ones how much they mean to you. But sometimes it can be hard to find the perfect gift when it feels like everyone’s got so much already! We’re here to help…
Check out our luxury exclusive hampers…
Filled with buttery, chocolatey goodness, it's a fabulous gift for anyone who enjoys a sweet treat. However you celebrate this time of year, do it in luxury!
Handmade shortbread is just the thing to give your Christmas that extra indulgent touch. Enjoy with a hot drink in the late morning while everyone opens presents. Maybe it’s your favourite nibble on Boxing Day as you settle down to watch that one nostalgic film.
From our families to yours, The Shortbread Company wishes you a delightful break. We’ll see you in the new year!
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It’s simple - see our recipe below…
All you need:
When your bonfire is hot and crackling, skewer one or two marshmallows and toast them over the flame. When the marshmallow begins to brown, carefully take it off the skewer and squash it between two shortbread biscuits. For an extra indulgent treat, spread some chocolate spread on one side of the shortbread. Watch the marshmallow melt the chocolate into a warm, sticky mess!
Which flavour shortbread do you use? We think our Terry’s Chocolate Orange and Salted Caramel go great with marshmallows!
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Did you know that 2 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day, including 95 million cups in the UK alone.
The coffee industry creates 210,000 jobs in the UK, with 80% of people who visit coffee shops doing so once a week.
Which flavour shortbread do you think goes well with your morning coffee? Do you play it safe with an americano and some all butter? Maybe an iced coffee and our strawberry shortbread gives you that much needed sweet hit mid-afternoon? We’d love to find out!
Sources: https://www.britishcoffeeassociation.org/coffee-in-the-uk/coffee-facts
Photos: The Shortbread Company and unsplash.com
Whether your favourite is milk, white or dark chocolate, we hope we’ve got a flavour of shortbread to take your fancy…
Did you know it takes 400 cocoa beans to make one pound of chocolate? Each cocoa tree can grow 2,500 beans too.
Taste, savour and indulge this International Chocolate Day!
sources: https://candyusa.com/story-of-chocolate/fun-facts-about-chocolate/
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The earliest form of shortbread appears to be a type of ‘bread biscuit’ in the 12th century, twice baked and made from leftover dough and sweetener. Though it wouldn’t have been as sweet as our own delightful recipe, as sugar was hard to come by back then.
Over the next few centuries, shortbread evolved into a real luxury treat and was even enjoyed at the court of Mary, Queen of Scots, who particularly enjoyed petticoat tails. The dough itself contained more fat and was harder to work with, which is where the ‘short’ term comes from.
As flour, butter and sugar were sought-after ingredients, shortbread became an extravagant treat, reserved for celebrations such as weddings and the famous Hogmanay at New Year’s. These traditions are still in place today, with many Scots and tourists alike enjoying shortbread around the world.
Who’d have thought shortbread was such an old biscuit? Here at The Shortbread Company, we provide luxury gifts for any celebration, including corporate and wholesale. So what are you waiting for? Celebrate this Scottish snack this fortnight!
Sources: https://fooddrinkfort.scot/
https://www.visitscotland.org/news/2020/scottish-food--drink-fortnight-2020
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Whether you choose to colour them, paint them, redecorate them in your own way, reuse or recycle your tin to prevent unnecessary landfill waste! Below are some quirky ideas on how you can give your tins a new life:
There is nothing more irritating than having overfull drawers and not being able to find what you’re looking for. If this sounds familiar, why not create little organisers from your tins? Simply decorate with paints, paper or a bit of arts and crafts and store away your items to make looking for them a whole lot easier next time. Not only is this convenient it also looks super organised!
Whether it’s for the house or in the car, or even on the go whilst you’re out and about, first aid kits are a necessity, especially with young and fearless children to care for!
Our tins are perfect for storing your First Aid items, the size of them is perfect for easy and convenient storing. Fill it with sterile wipes, plasters and all the other bits and pieces, and keep it stored somewhere handy.
Our tins are sealed with a lid, therefore making them PERFECT for storing away ingredients, especially those which come in annoying non-sealable packaging. Think an easy way to store your rice, pasta, flour and sugar. In todays reusable storage society, you can skip the plastic and take your tin to fill up at your local health food store, sustainable and practical!
Our tins are a perfect way to keep all your bits and bobs in. No more searching through your desk for loose paperclips, or risking someone stealing your favourite pens, simply store them away neatly and out of the way for a convenient and clutter free work day.
We all have loose change hanging about, why not turn your tin into a homemade money box to store it all away. Keep collecting those coins and watch the cash mount up! You’ll be surprised at how quickly it adds up.
Our tins are perfect for storing away bits and pieces, especially things you often misplace and need the most. Why not use them to store in your tools?
(Image:Pinterest, Plantas & Co)
Make your tins sustainable and environmentally beneficial, use them to plant small flowers or your mini herb garden! Homegrown mint is perfect for summer mojitos, or indulge in a homemade herbal tea to accompany our delicious shortbread.
You can shop our range here: https://theshortbreadcompany.com/collections/all
Whatever you choose to do with your tins, don’t throw them in the bin! Tins are recyclable and reusable, here at The Shortbread Company, we hate waste and want to make our products as sustainable as possible, which is only possible with your help.
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Apple Crumble & Shortbread Sundae
You can always use our vegan shortbread and vegan ice cream too!
Choose your favourite flavour shortbread and get creative with your own sundaes!
Here are some fun facts you might not know about ice cream…
1) In Victorian England, a scoop of ice cream was known as a ‘penny lick.’ And you didn’t have a wafer either – ice cream was served in a bowl which you returned to the vendor. By 1898, however, this was banned due to the spread of cholera….
2) The ice cream van is a British invention, made by refrigeration engineer Bryan Whitby in 1962, in Crewe, not far from the West Midlands.
3) Although we consider vanilla to be the original flavour, honey and nectar was actually the first flavour of ice cream. In Ancient Rome, Alexander the Great is the first recorded source of eating ice cream, though he called it ‘snow and ice’ mixed with honey and nectar.
4) On average, a person in the UK will eat 9 litres of ice cream in a year. This is nothing compared to the Americans though, who may eat up to a WHOPPING 20 litres of ice cream each per year!
5) Ever had brain freeze from eating ice cream too fast? There’s science behind it! Brain freeze is caused by your blood vessels tensing up when something cold hits them. If you press your tongue against the top of your mouth, it will help your blood vessels warm up again.
Treat yourself to a sundae this week - we can’t wait to hear what combinations you all come up with…
🖤 Remember, you can get £10 to spend if you join our VIP Club! 🖤
Join here: www.theshortbreadcompany.com
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Whether you choose to share it or keep it as a secret stash for yourself when the kids go to bed, we know you will enjoy the delicious taste of our luxury shortbread.
We have a wide range of gift tins also available for purchase on our store, so you can share the gift of shortbread with your family and friends.
Our collection boasts a wide range of delicious and exotic flavours, from Strawberry Milkshake, Eton Mess, Passion fruit… the list goes on.
We believe taste is everything and that’s why we never compromise on quality, we strive to give the highest quality of customer service and satisfaction to our customers, and the taste of our shortbread exceeds this.
So whether you indulge, share or gift your shortbread, we know you’ll love it.
To make it even easier to get your favourite treat, we have launched a shortbread subscription box. Sign up here: bit.ly/shortbreadsub
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As Summer is somewhat approaching, things are getting sweeter for our luxury shortbread.
Introducing, our Summer of Love shortbread collection, with flavours inspired by the sunshine, summer and all things sweet.
These include: Eton Mess, Strawberry Milkshake, Mixed Berries and so many more… there is something for everyone to satisfy those summer cravings
We love the summer here at The Shortbread Company, but when the sun isn’t so sweet, and the clouds are a bit grey, our luxurious Summer of Love shortbread collection brings that sweet summer kick.
Sit back and relax, indulge in our sweet shortbread this Summer.
Try them for yourself, or register for a monthly subscription box to be the first to try our new collection:
Shop here:
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The Shortbread Company are delighted to announce the launch of our monthly subscription boxes.
12 pieces of delicious luxury shortbread each month to satisfy those sweet cravings and at your convenience, we will post them directly to you at no extra cost to you. The simplest and most enjoyable way to indulge in your favourite treat.
A delicious selection of luxurious shortbread, with a variety of tasty flavours; Eton Mess, Strawberry Milkshake, Classic Milk Chocolate, Mixed Berries and so many more, not forgetting the all time classic All Butter shortbread.
Our boxes will have seasonal themes and the flavours will change each month.
We have summer flavours to sweeten up the sunshine, or lightly spiced and fruity to cosy up with in the winter, whatever the weather we will bring a little sweetness to your door each month.
All our shortbread is made with the best ingredients and are fresh and luxurious because here at The Shortbread Company we believe taste is everything. We thrive on providing excellent customer service and satisfaction with our high-quality shortbread.
The subscription boxes are our way of providing you with a little treat each month, to indulge yourself in a little luxury homemade shortbread.
Our shortbread boxes are a gift that keeps on giving, here at The Shortbread Company we believe it is important to give back, so 10% of each subscription box sale goes to a charitable cause to help improve the lives of others, so when you’re indulging in your favourite treat, somebody else benefits too.
Indulge, gift or share our delicious luxury shortbread.
Sign up to our VIP list to learn more about our subscription box service, follow the link below:
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