Baking Recipes

Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls

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Soft, tender, and naturally leavened. These sourdough cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting rise overnight, so you can bake them fresh in the morning!

Christmas Cookie Box 2025

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There’s something magical about a beautifully arranged box of homemade Christmas cookies. Whether you’re gifting them to neighbors, bringing them to holiday parties, or simply treating your own family, a thoughtfully curated Christmas …

Festive Pinwheel Cookies

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Few cookies are as eye-catching and festive as pinwheel cookies! These beautiful red and white swirled sugar cookies look incredibly impressive with their spiral design and festive sprinkle coating, but I have a secret: they’re much easier t…

Easy Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies

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There’s something utterly charming about thumbprint cookies. Buttery, melt-in-your-mouth rounds with jewel-toned jam nestled in the center. These jammy shortbread thumbprint cookies are a holiday baking classic that never goes out of style and fo…

Candy Cane Cookies

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These adorable candy cane cookies are guaranteed to be one of your favorite Christmas traditions! Made with a simple sugar cookie base, half the dough is colored red, then both colors are rolled together to create those iconic red and white candy cane …

Cranberry Orange Muffins

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These festive Cranberry Orange Muffins are bursting with bright citrus flavor, juicy tart cranberries, and a hint of rosemary. Perfect for holiday breakfasts or brunch. Vegan and gluten-free, adapted from Boots Bakery.

How To Make a Sourdough Starter

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Grab some whole grain rye flour and I’ll show you how to make a sourdough starter! A lively, vigorous natural sourdough starter is the core component in beautiful loaves of bread, sourdough pancakes, pizzas, and so much more. You can make your own starter with flour, water, the natural yeasts and bacteria in the air, and a bit of patience. Find a glass jar and let’s go!

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Best Pie Crust Recipe

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My favorite, all-butter pie crust recipe is irresistibly flaky, tender and packed with rich butter flavor. I share my best chef’s tips; easy to make and perfect for sweet or savory pies.

The BEST Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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If you love thin, chewy chocolate chunk cookies with crispy edges that is packed with chocolate, these cookies are exactly what you’ve been looking for. Bonus: They’re super easy to make and require only one bowl! I’ve been testing my…

Brown Sugar Cinnamon Banana Bread

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This banana bread recipe is by far my most-loved version. Classic banana bread spiced up with cinnamon and soft brown sugar delivers a loaf so good, you won’t be able to stop at just one slice. Guaranteed! Ingredients and Substitutions Banana bre…

Mushroom Hand Pies

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Savory pie people, these mushroom hand pies are for you. Mushrooms, charred scallions, sesame, and miso come together in these portable pockets of deliciousness. You get creaminess from a bit of cheese, and each bite delivers the magic of a golden, flaky pie crust.

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Peach Hand Pies

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These peach hand pies are next-level good! Made with a flaky, fool-proof, all-butter pie dough and filled with ripe peaches, goat cheese, plus a bit of green chile and basil, they ride the delicious line between savory and sweet.

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Peach Cobbler

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To make your peach cobbler extra special add lemon zest to your buttered baking dish, then fold toasted walnuts into the biscuit-like topping. Both are easy wins boosting flavor and dimension. Peak summer fruit classic!

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Bran Muffins

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Not your basic, bland, bran muffin. The thing that makes these special is their flavor. They’re buttermilk based with a tender crumb and toasted, craggy top. Perfect smeared with a bit of butter and your favorite marmalade.

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Plum Upside Down Cake

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This Plum Upside Down Cake is truly the most delicious tea-time treat and much easier to make than you might think. Light, fluffy orange-scented sponge topped with syrupy plums? Yes please! When it’s stone fruit season, I always have a surplus be…

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

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Bright and tangy, this easy lemon poppy seed cake is moist and light! Lemon zest gives it an extra burst of lemon flavor, with a hint of warmth from vanilla. Drizzle with our easy lemon glaze.

Easy Carrot Cake

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This Easy Carrot Cake Recipe is a game-changer. It’s incredibly moist, packed with warm spices and studded with crunchy pecans and sweet crushed pineapple. Layered with a luscious vanilla bean cream cheese frosting and topped with crunchy pecan p…

Chocolate Hot Cross Buns

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This extra-spicy, chocolate hot cross buns recipe is perfect for Easter and the dough can be made ahead to save time in the kitchen. Hot cross buns are essential for Easter.  Eaten as is, toasted then slathered in butter they are my favorite Easter bre…

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