Editing Shortbread (section)

==Varieties==
{{main|List of shortbread biscuits and cookies}}
[[File:Handmade_shortbread_at_the_bakery.jpg|thumb|Shortbread rounds being cut at a bakery.  This dough has been flavoured, docked (poked with holes), and rolled to the correct thickness before being cut.]]

Variations in ingredients for some recipes include the optional addition of caraway seeds to petticoat tails,<ref name="auto1"/> coriander and caraway in [[Goosnargh]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/cookies-and-biscuits/goosnargh-cakes|title=Goosnargh cakes recipe|website=Sainsbury`s Magazine}}</ref> egg yolk and cream in [[Ayrshire]], [[citrus peel]] and almonds in [[Pitcaithly]] bannock,<ref name="auto1"/> and [[demerara sugar]] in [[Dorset]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Davidson |first=Alan |title=The Oxford Companion to Food |date=2014-08-21 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-104072-6 |pages= 740 |language=en|quote= There are many variations.  The thick Pitcaithly bannock has peel and almonds in the mixture.  Queen Victoria's Balmoral recipe for shortbread was seasoned with a little salt; egg yolk and a little cream are added for extra richness in Ayrshire shortbread, and demerara sugar in Dorset shortbread.  Goosnargh cakes, named for the village in Lancashire where they achieved great popularitly in the 19th century, contain ground coriander and whole caraway seeds.}}</ref>

[[Millionaire's shortbread]], also called ''caramel squares'', is a modern variation, in which shortbread is topped with caramel and chocolate.<ref name=":1" /><!-- "...the layered combination of soft caramel and chocolate topping set upon a shortbread base, known as caramel squares, or sometimes as millionaire's shortbread." -->