"Good biscuits. I do feel that that there's too much sugar in this recipe: based on experience I reduced the sugar to half a cup anyway, but even then they were quite a bit sweeter than the biscuits that I'd normally make. I'd say that you only need one-third of a cup of sugar.

One other thing, relating to some reviewers' suggestion of making the ""

"Good recipe. Hadn't tried shortbread biscuits before, so it was nice to have them work out well the first time. I don't have a food processor so I just worked everything together the old-fashioned way by kneading together with my hands.

Some additional notes: (1) No need to use icing sugar: standard table sugar will work just fine. (2) As noted p""

"Good recipe. Hadn't tried shortbread biscuits before, so it was nice to have them work out well the first time. I don't have a food processor so I just worked everything together the old-fashioned way by kneading together with my hands.""

"Brilliant recipe. Although I used light cream cheese and sour cream varieties, the resulting cake had a rich, creamy texture and the taste was great. I halved the filling because I only had a shallow pan at my disposal, and it worked out just fine. Additionally, as someone who hasn't done much baking in the past, the overall simplicity of the reci""