Baking

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.

Whole Wheat Banana Bread with Brown Butter

Bowen Close serves a grown-up banana bread with nutty whole wheat flour and browned butter.

Kid Friendly No-Bake Oatmeal Seed Cookies

A delicious kid friendly no bake cookie from Grace Cherubino of Food Corps.

Gluten Free Chocolate Crackers with Peanut Butter Filling

Warning: These chocolate crackers are quick to make and very, very addictive. Consume at own risk.

Blooming Champagne Cupcakes

Ruby Moukli with the cupcake you need to serve mother this Mother’s Day.

Sweet Avocado Bread

Priya Mahadevan incorporates the super healthy and fatty avocado into one of her favorite bread recipes.

Deliciously Simple Buns

Even if you’re not a skilled bread maker and baker, these buns will make you want to bake them on a daily basis.

Currant Cakes and Delirium Nocturum

Sweetened, dried currants are blanketed with a flaky pastry in this traditional family recipe, paired with its perfect carbonated counterpart.

Lemon Poppy Cupcakes with Lemon Honey Frosting

This cupcake is sweet, tangy, and earthy. Because it’s egg-based, it is extremely moist and fluffy.

Banana Oat Energy Bars
Homemade Energy Bars

Kelsey Hilts with a nutrient-dense snack that can satisfy any sweet tooth craving.

The Girls’ Guide to Puff Pastry

Making puff pastry certainly isn’t neuroscience, but it definitely is one hell of a workout.

Kitchen Cabinet Banana Bread

Even Jessie Chien’s lifelong dislike of bananas can’t keep her away from banana bread- this banana bread, in particular.

Nordic Cuisine for the Home Cook – Dream Cake with Barley and Berries

A moist and sweet sponge cake balanced with nordic berries, topped with a chewy malt and barley caramel.

Granny’s Batter Bread

A simple bread with a great crumb that never fails to evoke warm memories of childhood through smell and taste.

Cinnamon Muffins

Nothing beats a good, moist, cinnamon flavored muffin. It’s like biting into a piece of cinnamon bliss.

Oranjekoek
Dutch Queens Day Food

A spicy cake filled with almond paste, covered in coloured icing and topped with rich buttercream.

Morning Glory Muffins
Gluten-Free Morning Glory Muffins

Christine Curran serves up a fresh batch of gluten free morning glory muffins.

Simple Soothing Vanilla Pound Cake

A comforting cake for a crazy day, a bad week, or just as a delicious treat.

Homemade Chewy Granola Bars

Chewy granola bars are an incredibly easy recipe that can serve as a tasty breakfast or snack.

California Love – The Goods Carrot Muffin

Olivia Caminiti adds all her favorite ingredients to create the ultimate muffin.

Flax Seeds Whole Wheat Crackers – A Healthy Baked Bonanza
Flax Seeds Whole Wheat Crackers – A Healthy Baked Bonanza

Whole wheat and flax seeds impart a wonderful nutty aroma to the crackers, while giving a crunchy bite and texture.

Wholewheat Pumpkin Bread – Healthy Bake with Coconut & Almond Crunch
Wholewheat Pumpkin Bread with Coconut and Almond Crunch

Moist and supple bread to the core is what fresh pumpkin puree does to this…

Finger Millet or Ragi Cookies – A Crispy Healthy Treat

An acquired taste to many, Sanjeeta Kk has a way of making this plant taste delicious.

Melomakarona: A Traditional Greek Cookie with a Non-Traditional Pairing

A crumbly and spicy, honey-soaked biscuit finds satisfaction with a home-brewed Oatmeal ESB.

Kalács, Traditional Hungarian Sweet Braided Bread

Zita Nagy shares the recipe for Kalács, a classic sweet Hungarian holiday bread.

Mexico On My Plate: Black Sesame Polvorones

Polvorones are crumbly cookies found across Latin America, Spain and The Philippines.

California Love – Sweet Breakfast Bread Pudding

Olivia Caminiti gets introduced to the tradition of eating a sweet bread pudding for breakfast.

carrot cake
Orange Infused Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Sukanya Ghosh finds herself in a situation where she must bake a carrot cake before the world ends.

Carrot Cake
Easter Carrot Cake

The thought of Easter bunnies munching on carrots makes Kelsey Hilts think of this delicious carrot cake.

Schiaccia Briaca: Drunken Tuscan Cake

Schiacciata ubriaca is a unique specialty of the Island of Elba: a “drunken” cake, boozy with the island’s own red dessert wine.

Schiacciata – Tuscan Easter Sweet Bread

Schiacciata is a typical Italian Easter sweet bread, popular in most of the Tuscan region.

Pinca Croatian Easter Bread
Pinca – The Traditional Croatian Easter Bread

This bread is traditionally baked in Croatia during Easter holidays. It is sweet, rich, soft, foamy, light and beautifully flavored.

Stollen
Paasstol – Dutch Easter Bread

A rich and sweet bread filled with dried fruits and almond paste, traditionally served in the Netherlands during Easter.

Cute Easter Cupcakes

These Easter cupcakes are fresh, bursting with citrus flavor and filled with lemon curd – perfect for warm days ahead.

Amazing Ginger Peach Muffins

These delicious muffins are so rich that they hover precariously on the boundary between muffins and cupcakes.

Bird Shaped Bread Rolls
Easter Baking: Bird Shaped Bread Rolls

Touching delight for adults and kids these über cute bird shaped bread rolls are a perfect spring breakfast treat.

Cooking the Magazines: Dried Berry and Wheat Germ Muffins

These delicious muffins are healthy enough to be served for breakfast, featuring wheat germ and dried berries.

Brazilian Stout Bread
Brazilian Stout Bread

Suzie Castello with an Irish inspired Brazilian bread. Or is it the other way around?

Back to Baking Basics – The Profiterole

Profiteroles are the foundation to a variety of different pastries from gougéres to French wedding cakes.

Gluten-Free, Flour-less Peanut Butter Cookies
Flour-Less Peanut Butter Cookies

A deliciously chewy and delightfully flavorful peanut butter cookie with no flour.

Vegan Pecan Pear Crisp with Blackberries

Dig into Amie Valpone’s Vegan Pecan Pear Crisp recipe – it’s vegan, healthy, delicious and sure to please all tastes.

Quick Bread 101 – Date and Carrot Bread

Sawsan shares one of her favorite quick bread recipes along with a few basic technical notes to guarantee your success in making quick bread every time.

Golden Mango Upside Down Cake

Instead of baking the caramelized mangoes with the usual sponge cake batter, here, they are paired with a golden yellow cake.

A Bite of Britain: Welsh Bara Brith Tea Cake

Today is St. David’s Day, and since St. David is the patron saint of Wales, Ruby Moukli celebrates with a classic Welsh tea cake.

Queijadas
Queijadas, Portuguese Cheesecake Tarts

Queijadas is Rochelle Ramos’ favorite Portugese way to accessorize an espresso.

Brown Butter Cupcakes with Coffee Buttercream

Nothing in the world is wrong with brown butter cupcakes for breakfast on your birthday.

The Art of Making Phulka

What is special about this flat bread is it is made on a gas flame and allowed to raise/fluff up without yeast or baking powder.

Corn Muffins: Thanks to Court Street Grocers

When you love someone, sometimes you do things for them that you don’t totally understand.

Cooking Croatia: Croatian Jelly Doughnuts

Croatian jelly doughnuts are traditionally baked throughout February, during carnival time.

Gluten-Free French Madeleines

This gluten-free, refined sugar-free recipe lacks nothing in texture and has a toasted, golden flavor to boot.

Wholewheat Spicy Bread: An Assortment

An assortment of wholewheat breads bursting with warmth and flavors.

Heart Cake Pops
Heart Cake Pops

Heart cake pops are the perfect treat for Valentine’s Day and they make a fun holiday project for your kids.

Chilled Almond Milk-Drunk Cake

An Indian inspired version of the tres leches dessert that uses almond milk instead of the three milks.

Cinnamon Sugar Pull-apart Bread

There’s nothing like cinnamon sugar pull-apart bread on a cold morning. Plus it’s fun to make.

Cooking the Magazines: Chocolate Dipped Coconut Macaroons

Macaroons made from egg whites, sweetened condensed milk, and coconut, then dipped in chocolate.

Chocolate Coated Peppermint Cream Cookies

Serve these lovely cookies after dinner with a cup of coffee or tea.

Pear Gingerbread Muffins

These gorgeous pear gingerbread muffins are perfect for cold and lazy winter days.

Indian Shortbread – Cardamom and Saffron Nankhatai

Cardamom and Indian sweets were happily married, till they met saffron. The rest, as they say, is history.

Cooking Croatia – Walnut Orange Cake

This lovely cake is a beautiful blend of nuts and citrus. Dig in.