Let’s say you don’t like chocolate and hazelnut. You could use some minced rosemary and lemon zest for something a little more savory. Maybe halve the vanilla in that case. Maybe a mocha flavor with instant coffee and chocolate. You could leave them plain vanilla with no add-ins for the purists in your life.

This calls for two, 8” square pans. You could bake them in cake rounds to get shortbread wedges but I think they look cute in little fingers like so. The photographed ones here were baked in an off-sized pan I have, because I wanted them to be thicker, yours will be thinner!

This recipe is a hybrid between Dorie Greenspans Sables and King Arthur Baking Shortbread.