Shortbread Mould

As with all stoneware baking items, I seasoned this with spot of coconut oil, it's pretty flavourless. Baked and cooled pan in hot oven. Wiped clean pan and it's ready to use. SB Pans, should only be used for creamed shortbread recipe, not cold recipe of cutting cold butter into dry ingredients. This will be something I'll pass along to my children, as a tradition I grew up with. Cleaning, after seasoning pan...HOT water only, a bit of coarse salt to assist any stuck baked food. NO SOAP. The pan will darken with use, and create a natural non-stick over time. It makes a Great Wall decoration.

I bought the mould before reading the reviews, but checked all the advice before making the shortbread. I reduced temperature and baked for longer. I brushed with melted butter and left the baked shortbread for at least 4 hours to cool. There was no shifting the blighter!The advice by Lakeland seems to be to keep using it until it might release more easily, but given the number of people who say they have unsuccessfully tried this, I feel unprepared to end up wasting more batches of ingredients.There is no advice on the box. I bought it yesterday to make pretty shortbread as a Xmas gift.

Sadly had to return shortbread mould as every batch/recipe I tried just stuck or didn't cook properly although I followed instructions given. Have to say staff at Milton Keynes store very polite & friendly. Used credit note to take advantage of special offer on roasting pans. Here's hoping the turkey & roasties come out ok at Christmas!

Washed, dried and greased mould and used Delia's Scottish shortbread recipe. Pressed the mixture in firmly using a jam jar as a rolling pin. Pricked the shortbread and baked it for 45 minutes on gas 3. Left it to cool for an hour and loosened the edges with a palette knife. It turned out easily and the pattern showed up, but was not as clearly defined as the illustration on the box. It cut up neatly into eight pieces.

Like many other reviewers I wish I had read the reviews before purchasing this item. I followed the recipe and instructions on the box and had to chip out the first batch. Read the reviews and discovered you DO need to grease the mould. I used the suggested melted butter method and the second batch did turn out but was uncooked in the centre. Advice again from the reviews said to cook at a lower temperature for longer. I tried this and the results were marginally better but not perfect. Have now returned this but surprised Lakeland haven't updated instructions after all the poor feedback