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Homemade Pizza Night Starts With This Easy Dough

This homemade pizza dough has a chewy center and golden edges that make pizza night worth staying home for. The recipe makes enough for two pizzas, so one portion can be baked tonight and the other frozen for an easy dinner later.

Black Sesame Amaretti Cookies

Amaretti are some of my favorite cookies for a reason: they are ridiculously simple to make, with only 3 main ingredients—plus the black sesame in this case—and always a crowd pleaser. Even better, they’re naturally gluten-free AND dairy-free (but you won’t miss a thing, I promise!) These eye-catching black sesame amaretti cookies might look colorless, […]

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Pumpkin Spice Cookies

A frosted sugar cookie with creamy icing sits on a cooling rack. A small candy pumpkin is visible next to the cookie on a wooden surface, completing the festive look of these delightful Pumpkin Spice Cookies.I love pumpkin spice season! These Pumpkin Pie Spice Cookies are an easy soft and chewy sugar cookie with warm fall flavors – and they’re so good. I took my favorite sugar cookie recipe and added pumpkin spice to the cookie and the icing. It’s an EPIC fall cookie recipe! Pumpkin cookies are really good. I…

Cherry Jam

One of the first “recipes” on this blog was No-Recipe Cherry Jam, posted in 2005. Why some hyperventilated about making something without an exact recipe, a lot of people successfully used those guidelines to make cherry jam over the last fifteen years. The basis for it was how I’ve been making jam forever; use 3 parts sugar to 4 parts fruit puree. The standard ratio…

Sugar Cookie Frosting

Three decorated sugar cookies—adorned with vibrant sugar cookie icing—rest on a cooling rack: a blue star sprinkled with white, a white star lined in red, and a purple heart topped with colorful sprinkles.Upgrade your sugar cookies with this easy sugar cookie icing recipe that hardens for a glossy and beautiful finish. So much easier than royal icing, this frosting makes decorating a cinch and the cookies are stackable! Sugar Cookie Icing that Hardens While royal icing decorated cookies are beautiful, making the icing isn’t easy. Plus you…

Strawberry Sangria

This strawberry sangria made the Spanish way, with strawberries, dry rosé, and orange liqueur. Here’s how to build the pitcher…

Chewy Sugar Cookie Recipe

A close-up of several golden, round sugar cookies with slightly cracked surfaces, stacked on top of each other—these delicious treats are made from an easy sugar cookie recipe.Chewy Sugar Cookies take my favorite cookie recipe and instead of being pillowy soft, they have crunchy edges and chewy centers. Because these are sweet enough without frosting, this is an easy sugar cookie recipe you can count on to be the best one you’ve tried! This recipe has been updated to fulfil the chewy…

Soft Sugar Cookies

A stack of Perfect Sugar Cookies topped with colorful sprinkles sits on a wooden board, surrounded by more cookies and scattered sprinkles.Easy Soft Sugar Cookies – a classic drop sugar cookie, no cookie cutters or rolling needed! With the buttercream cookie frosting on top these are perfect for any holiday or occasion – or because you can’t get enough sugar cookies! Drop sugar cookies are a go-to recipe for the easiest soft sugar cookies. These cookies…

Strawberry Jam

I was recently gifted an overload of strawberries: I bought four baskets from a vendor at the market, whose booth I shop at often, and he threw in two extra baskets for free, the equivalent of a carte de fidelité (loyalty card) in Paris. So I’ve spent the past few days washing, hulling, cutting and cooking my unexpected bounty. I’ve been making a number of…

This Sweet Fair Treat Takes Just Minutes to Make

This homemade funnel cake brings the fair food favorite right into your kitchen with a simple batter and a quick fry. It turns golden and crisp in minutes, then gets finished with a generous dusting of powdered sugar. Serve it warm for the best texture…

Soft Banana Bread Muffins for Busy Mornings

Banana bread muffins are the kind of recipe that makes overripe bananas feel like a win. They are soft, moist, and lightly spiced with cinnamon, with plenty of sweet banana flavor in every bite. This recipe is perfect for breakfast, snacks, or freezing…

Strawberry Elderflower Jelly (with Strawberry Rose variation)

Strawberries, particularly perfectly ripe, just picked berries, often have subtle floral undertones. By adding flower-infused syrup to the strawberry juice base, we play up that floral characteristic, giving this flower-infused jelly a unique and complex flavor that tastes just like spring feels. Made with fresh elderflowers, ripe strawberries and classic pectin for a ruby red, […]

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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies (Extra Large, Bakery Style)

These cookies are just… extra. Extra large, extra gooey-in-the-middle, with an extra toasty, extra brown buttery flavor and a texture I can only describe as lush. Tollhouse could never. This small batch recipe makes 6 obscenely large cookies (equivalent to 12 normal sized ones), but feel free to double or triple the recipe (they freeze […]

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Jammy Sour Cream Crumb Cake

With a golden, buttery crumb cake—made extra rich and tender with sour cream—topped with a swirl of bright fruit jam and a crisp, shortbread cookie-like crumb for crunchy contrast, this is a cake that’s as suitable for breakfast as it is for dessert (or even afternoon tea). Sometimes simple cakes hit just as hard as […]

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