Baking

Apple Pie
Real Dutch Apple Pie

We all know apple pie is as American as apple pie. But actually apple pie is originally not American at all.

Healthier Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls with Pumpkin Spice Glaze

This dough is very easy to work with and is perfect for the cooks that have been apprehensive to make cinnamon rolls.

Mini Pumpkin Baked Donuts

Feeling a little depressed with the colder weather? Mini Pumpkin Donuts – one bite donuts to the rescue.

wine doughnuts
Wine Doughnuts – Italian Doughnut Recipe

Check out these lovely Roman wine dipped doughnuts from Elisa Gennari.

Apple Cake
Apple Tea Cake

You can have this perfectly moist and lovely apple cake on your table in just over a half hour. A deliciously simple and homey dessert!

Apple and Oat Muffin
Apple and Oat Muffins

It is always hard to resist freshly baked warm and soft muffins. Here they are packed with wheat flour, oats, apples and a hint of spice.

Almond and Pear Tart
Almond and Pear Tart with a Caramel Drizzle

Robin Runner serves up a delicious almond and pear tart with caramel drizzle.

Perfect Pizza Dough
Perfect Pizza Dough

Lauren Kretzer discovers her holy grail – the secret to what she believes is the perfect pizza dough.

Creamy Scones with Specks of Currants

Scottish scones are light, flaky and simple round cakes, and goes well with afternoon tea or can be served in breakfast table.

Granola Bar Recipe
Cooking the Magazines: Chocolate Peanut Butter Energy Bars

Homemade granola bars featuring peanut butter, chocolate chips, and dried cranberries

Oatmeal Raisin Pumpkin Spice Kiss Cookie

The usual suspect, oatmeal raisin, with it’s party hat on, a pumpkin kiss with a milky, creamy, spice filling.

Oatcakes
Cheddar and Pumpkin-seed Oatcakes

These tangy, savory crackers pair really well with cheese, hummus or peanut butter. They can also be made gluten free if you use certified gluten-free oats and leave out the wheat germ.

Grape Flat Bread
Rustic Grape Flat Bread

This rustic flat bread baked in a very hot cast iron skillet with a couple of handfuls of grapes makes a perfect snack.

Homemade Burger Buns
Attractive Homemade Burger Buns

Bread selection is a key element to transforming a burger from ordinary to extraordinary.

Whey Foccaccia
Whey Focaccia with Rosemary and Tomatoes

Priya Mahadevan presents a deliciously fresh whey focaccia.

Lavender Champagne Grape Pie Bites
Lavender Champagne Grape Pie Bites

Little bites of lavender pie crust topped with sweet, juicy champagne grapes.

Pumpkin Cinnamon Bun
Pumpkin Cinnamon Buns and Home-Brewed Pumpkin Ale

Your morning buns and brew get an autumn update with this season’s favorite flavor.

Hazelnut Cake
Ana’s Hazelnut Cake with Dark Chocolate

The cake is not a dessert cake, its more like a breakfast cake or something perfect for an afternoon cup of tea.

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Brown-Butter Chocolate Cherry bars

Even if cherry picking season is over, Mansi Desai stumbles over some fresh ones and creates these lovely cherry brown butter bars.

Pear Raisin Walnut Wheat Bran Bread

A heartier and more substantial bread, with a warm streak of cinnamon throughout.

A soft pretzel with a healthy dose of spelt
Spretzel – The Soft Pretzel

A soft pretzel with a healthy dose of spelt, from Roxana Jullapat.

Doughnuts with Sugar Syrup Glaze

Who doesn’t love Doughnuts? Now, you will love them more with a simple sugar syrup and a hint of cardamom glaze.

Blueberry Yogurt Coffee Cake

An extra-moist coffee cake packed with berries and a crunchy cinnamon sugar crumble.

Fig and chevre tart
Summer Fig, Rosemary and Goat Cheese Tart

This summer tart is a great sweet-savory dish to serve as dessert or with a side salad. Add more or less honey to taste.

Finnish Pulla Recipe
Finnish Pulla Recipe with a Twist

Suchitra Vaidyaram with her own twist on Pulla, a Finnish sweet cardamom flavored bread.

Vacation Blueberry Pie

Cooking in an unfamiliar kitchen is always a bit of an adventure. You never know what you’re going to find, and how the food will turn out.

Carrot Cake Recipe

This lovely carrot cake takes literally no time to make and it’s endlessly delicious.

Nordic Cuisine for the Home Cook – “Tebirkes” Danish Poppy Seed Rolls

Nordic Cuisine for the Home Cook – “Tebirkes” Danish Poppy Seed Rolls

Mastering the Art of Making Perfect Pizza Dough

Mastering the art of making perfect pizza dough has never been easier.

Cup Of Tea Cake

They quick cakes are easy to put together, require few hard-to-find ingredients, and don’t require a lot of fuss.

Lemon Glazed Blueberry Bites
Lemon Glazed Blueberry Bites

Try these plump lemon cookies bursting with fresh blueberries. Perfect summer baking.

Coconut Milk Weetabix Pear Cake

This cake is a nice light finish to a fresh summer meal. Enjoy with a scoop of ice cream or dollop of whipped cream.

Rugelach Recipe

Rugelach is a Jewish pastry which can be made with various combinations of stuffing.

Dutch Baby – Family Breakfast Go-to

An easy puffed pancake is a perfect breakfast for everyday or can be dressed up for fancier occasions.

Peach Upside-down Cornmeal Skillet Cake

The cornmeal, the skillet, and the whole upside-down business make for a crispy edge, with a soft interior and a gooey, sweet caramel glaze.

A Bite of Britain: Rhubarb Crumble

Ruby Moukli about her journey to like rhubarb, and her go to rhubarb crumble recipe.

Lemon and Poppy Seed Cookies

Super easy with fresh lemony taste. You will love these Lemon and Poppy Seed Cookies.

Baker’s Yeast Demystified

Priya Sreeram with a 101 on the most important ingredient in bread making. Yeast.

Earl Grey Citrus Cupcakes

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And when it doesn’t give you bergamot, make earl grey cupcakes.

Lime Cornmeal Cookies with Raspberry Mojito Glaze

Bowen Close went just a little crazy on a batch of lime cornmeal cookies.

Cooking the Magazines: Baked Lemon Buttermilk Donuts

A healthier donut, baked with buttermilk and whole wheat flour and topped with a lemon glaze.

Blueberry Shortbread Cookie

While husband Jed Thomas cooks up inspired Yankee breakfasts each morning, Innkeep Alana Buie at the Captain Fairfield Inn bakes cookies for teatime.

Garlic Knots

These buttery garlic knots are fun to work with, delicious and melt in your mouth.

Kicked Up Strawberry Shortcake

Light, seasonal, and easy to make, strawberry shortcake is a simple combination of both strawberries and, of course, shortcake. 

4 Ingredient Nutella Bliss

When a recipe has just 4 ingredients, one of which is Nutella, don’t wait for a reason to bake.

Sticky Date and Nut Squares

When life hands you dates, you make these delectable date fudges from Priya Sreeram.

Chocolate Orange Polenta Cookies

These cookies are based on lovely those classic Italian lemon polenta cookies, made a little more luxurious by the dark chocolate finish.

Triple Chocolate Cookies

Chocolate cookies dotted with white chocolate chips and packed with a secret weapon that makes them high in fiber and lower in gluten.

Sweet and Savory Orange Cumin Shortbread Cookies

Prerna Singh with some sweet and savory shortbread cookies, inspired by her mother’s baking.

Orange and Mint Cake Recipe

This cake is fragrant and reminiscent of the freshness of a bright early summer day.

Lemony Pistachio Shortbread or Nankhatai – A Crumbly Christmas Cookie
Nankhatai – Lemony Pistachio Indian Shortbread

These shortbread, or Nankhatai as they are called in India, are buttery and melt-in-mouth crumbly cookies.

Cinnamon and Cardamom Swirl Bread

A deliciously deadly combo of cardamom and cinnamon makes this a great breakfast bread.

Thai Iced Tea Cupcakes
Thai Iced Tea Cupcakes

Thai tea is steeped in a mixture of milk and sweet condensed milk to make a cupcake that tastes shockingly like its inspiration.

Polvorones de Almendra
Polvorones de Almendra

Better known as Mexican Wedding Cookies, “Polvorones” can be traced back originally to Medieval Arab cuisine.

Pumpkin Bread French Toast
Pumpkin Bread French Toast

This comforting and rich version of French toast made with a pumpkin quick bread is a decadent breakfast that could easily pass for dessert.

Simple Poppy Seed Buns

A great recipe for a quick bread that’s very similar to the dough used for flatbreads and pizza doughs.

Pie Dough Basics – It’s a Piece of Pie

To make your own pie dough, it is helpful to know a little bit of the science behind the crust. 

Lady Grey Bundt Cake with Rosewater and Honey Icing

A moist and dense Bundt cake, fragranced with Lady Grey tea, orange, lemon and rosewater.

A Bite of Britain: The Queen and I

Ruby Moukli serves scones made (almost) as they are at Balmoral, the royal residence in Scotland.

Banana Macadamia Nut Pancakes with Coconut Syrup
Banana Macadamia Nut Pancakes with Coconut Syrup

One bite of these banana mac pancakes with coconut syrup will leave you dreaming of the land of aloha.