Makabi & Sons

Named for the founders' mother, Makabi & Sons is a family-run Los Angeles bakery that makes shortbread cookies with flavors named for places.

Where to buy Makabi & Sons

Makabi & Sons is a family-run bakery in Los Angeles, named for the founders' mother, that bakes shortbread cookies with flavors named for places. The shop is at 263 Josephine Street in Cherry Creek, Denver, and products ship across the continental U.S. from theambrosianpantry.com. Visitors can ask staff questions in the shop. The shortbread guide explains what makes shortbread short. Shortbread is a natural partner for tea, and more baked treats are in bakery sweets.

About Makabi & Sons

Based in
Los Angeles, California
Known for
place-named shortbread cookies

Makabi is the family's mother's maiden name, chosen in homage to her. The Los Angeles bakery works in small batches by hand with sweet cream butter, pure extracts and high-quality flour, cocoa and vanilla.

The bakery names its flavors after places and says every recipe it writes evokes the sensations of a place and moment.

Makabi & Sons questions

What is shortbread?

Shortbread is a thick cookie made of flour, sugar and a large amount of fat, which at Makabi & Sons means sweet cream butter. Bakers call an edible fat used this way shortening, because it shortens baked goods, and that is where the short in shortbread comes from.

Why are Makabi & Sons cookies named after places?

Makabi & Sons says every recipe it writes evokes the sensations of a place and moment, so its flavors carry the names of places. The family named the bakery for their mother, Makabi being her maiden name, and say her appreciation for all things eclectic and enchanting shaped their tastes.

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