Baking

Chocolate-Loaded Mississippi Mud Brownies

These chocolate-loaded Mississippi Mud Brownies have a brownie base that is topped with peanut butter, marshmallows, pecans, and a light chocolate frosting. Just like the pie!

Coffee and Créme Fraîche Cheesecake

Studded with vanilla bean flecks, this creamy, delightful Créme Fraîche Cheesecake is based on a hazelnut and graham cracker crust, stirred together with a shot of coffee, and topped with ganache.

Cherry Crumble

Celebrate cherry season with this easy cherry crumble perfect with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Strawberries and Cream Layer Cake

Layered with macerated strawberries and their juices, this easy vanilla cake with cream is a summer delight.

Raspberry Rhubarb Bars

Sweet, tangy and vegan! These raspberry rhubarb bars topped with an oat crumble are a delightful summer dessert.

Gluten Free Rosemary Olive Oil Cake

This gluten free olive oil cake is studded with the earthy scent of rosemary and covered in a sweet and citrus Meyer lemon glaze. It’s simple, stunning and just sweet enough.

Easy Sheet Cakes for Summer

The no-fuss nature of the sheet cake makes it an ideal choice for potlucks, picnics and cookouts. Easy to prep, store, transport AND serve—these cakes will see you through an entire season of buffet-style festivities.

Coconut Cream Cheese Cake

A soft cake made with coconut milk and shredded coconut, coated with cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut.

Lemon Blueberry Sweet Rolls

Totally sweet, these lemon blueberry sweet rolls are a blast to make for a special morning treat. You’ll be happy to lick the icing off your fingers.

Cardamom Brioche Loaf

This buttery brioche loaf is perfect when you want a relaxing day in the kitchen. It’s twisted with a cardamom filling and glazed before slicing.

Coconut Rhubarb Tart

A little sweet and a little tart, this coconut rhubarb tart is the perfect combination of flavors and soft and crunchy textures.

Chocolate Glazed Carrot Cake

A soft, moist cake with a delicate flavor. Ideal for dipping in milk, it is perfect also as a dessert after a light meal. In this recipe, pistachio is the ingredient that makes the difference.

Gluten Free Lemon Bars

Good news! These lemon bars are not only gluten-free, they’re Paleo and so perfectly sweet and tart.

Strawberry Galette with a Basil Crust

This simple, rustic strawberry galette is made extra special with a basil butter crust.

Chocolate Hazelnut Sandwich Cookies

Homemade chocolate-hazelnut filling joins crunchy hazelnut cookies to create a delicious, melt-in-your-mouth cookie sandwich.

Zucchini and Dried Cranberry Cake

This slightly sweet cake is a great way to use up zucchini when you have a lot coming out of your garden.

Mini Samoa Bundt Cakes

Loaded with chocolate, caramel, and coconut, these mini samoa bundt cakes are the perfect sweet treat.

Creamy Spinach Artichoke Stuffed Spaghetti Squash

An easy weeknight meal to pop in the oven!

Vegan Coffee Cake

Crusted with walnuts and made soft with bananas incorporated into the batter, this vegan coffee cake is about to become best friends with your next cup of joe.

Mini Strawberry Lemon Cakes

Make these lovely mini lemon cakes infused with fresh thyme syrup and layered with whipped crème fraîche and strawberries.

Strawberry Skillet Cake

Made with almond flour, lemon juice and sweet strawberry preserves, this easy strawberry skillet cake is perfect for a sweet morning treat or evening dessert.

Lemon Blueberry Loaf

This sweet lemon blueberry loaf is like a stunning coffee cake loaded with delicious spring flavors.

Salted Pecan and Apricot Bars

Looking for a perfect breakfast recipe for Mother’s Day? Check out these salted pecan and apricot bars that are super easy to make for breakfast.

Ultimate Sweet-Tart Lemon Desserts

The tangy, refreshing quality of fresh lemon makes it an ideal match for the warmer months, and these sweet recipes are here to see you through.

Apricot and Pistachio Cardamom Cake

Almost like a tea cake, this sweet treat is baked with orange zest, apricot preserves, and pistachios and topped with cashew cream. It’s the perfect baked good for brunch.

Blueberry Lemon Coffeecake

Sweet and tart, this coffeecake is a perfect morning treat on Mother’s Day.

Lemon Cream Scones and Blueberry Preserves

Perfect for bunch or tea, bake a batch of this sweet treat, lemon cream scones served with blueberry preserves.

Vegan Pistachio Cookies

Rich in flavor, but without eggs or butter, these Sicilian vegan pistachio cookies are rustically beautiful and perfect dipped into coffee or tea.

Strawberry Bread Pudding

Make a pan of this sweet strawberry bread pudding the night before and easily bake in the morning for a stunning breakfast treat.

Overnight Strawberry Ricotta Breakfast Strata

This strawberry ricotta breakfast strata can be prepped the night before so it is easy enough for a busy morning, but still elegant enough for a special brunch.

Apricot Prosciutto Strata

Mother’s Day brunch deserves a special treat. This Apricot Prosciutto Strata is an irresistible combination of salty ham, sweet apricot preserves and rich custard soaked bread.

Strawberry Sweet Rolls

Rolled with berry preserves, these delicious strawberry sweet rolls are served warm with fresh strawberries, walnuts and drizzled with a lavender icing.

Prosciutto, Swiss and Apricot Pinwheels

Treat Mom this Mother’s Day with breakfast in bed. Serve her these savory and sweet glazed prosciutto, Swiss and apricot pinwheels.

How to Stack and Crumb Coat a Multi-Layered Cake

What’s the key to avoiding lumpy, crumby frosting? Icing your cake with an expert crumb coat before you go all Ace-of-Cakes on your creation. Staying true to its namesake, the crumb coat is a thin base layer of frosting that’s designed to catch cake crumbs and even out your frosting surface. Think of it as the sanding and priming steps before a paint job.

Homemade Pop Tarts

Ditch the packaged stuff and recreate your own homemade pop tarts. This version is better than the original and stuffed with cherry preserves made with simple ingredeints.

Raspberry Coffee Cake

This raspberry coffee cake is a fun breakfast treat swirled with sweet raspberry preserves and topped with buttery streusel and glaze.

The Ultimate Peanut Butter Filled Cookie

These soft peanut butter cookies filled with an irresistible peanut butter butterscotch filling.

Almond Butter and Raspberry Breakfast Tarts

Almond butter and raspberry preserves are stuffed inside of puff pastry to make a delicious, handheld breakfast tart

Strawberry Butter with Prosciutto and Goat Cheese Scones

These savory scones are loaded with bits of prosciutto and goat cheese and served with a sweet strawberry butter.

Apricot Turnovers

Make a quick flaky dough and wrap it around sweet apricot preserves. It’s the perfect breakfast in bed treat for Moms on Mother’s Day.

Deep Fried DoubleTree Cookies

The DoubleTree is famous for their cookies, but what happens when those loved cookies are fried?

Blueberry Jalapeño Cornbread Muffins

These blueberry jalapeño cornbread muffins with bacon will wake up your taste buds with their fun combination of sweet, spicy and savory flavors. They’re perfect for brunch!

Blueberry and Turkey Rolls

With just five ingredeints, you can make these blueberry and turkey pull apart rolls that are totally delicious with a sweet-savory combination. Perfect for breakfast in bed for Mother’s Day.

Honey and Lemon Torta

Try a honey and lemon torta with a local dessert wine for an Italian meal conclusion.

Strawberry Rolls with Lemon Yogurt Icing

Made with whole grains, topped with a honey Greek yogurt frosting, and rolled together with bright strawberry preserves these sweet rolls are a little bit nourishing and totally comforting and delicious.

Gluten Free Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies

Soft, sweet gluten free raspberry thumbprint cookies are just the treat that Mom needs this Mother’s Day.

Raspberry Sweet Rolls

Swap out the usual cinnamon roll for these raspberry sweet rolls with bright lemon zest.

Apricot and Prosciutto Pastry Braid

This beautiful braid of puff pastry brings together prosciutto, cheese and a sweet touch of apricot preserves.

Almond and Cherry Scones

Loaded with sweet cherry preserves and almonds, these scones are a perfect morning treat when you want to show some love to someone in your life.

Almond Apricot Coffeecake

This buttery coffeecake is loaded with apricot preserves and topped with a sweet brown sugar and almond crumble topping. Perfect for brunch with a big pour of coffee.

Lemon Blueberry Sweet Rolls

Treat mom to a special breakfast in bed with these easy, tasty homemade lemon blueberry sweet rolls.

5 Principles for Baking with Craft Beer

Get your paper and pen out bakers and beer-heads (the folks who live for micro-brews and shudder at the thought shot-gunning a Miller Light), we’ve got some invaluable advice coming your way courtesy of Jackie Dodd (aka The Beeroness).

Raspberry Cream Cheese Pastries

No matter your skill level in the kitchen, you can make these easy breakfast pastries loaded with raspberry preserves and cream cheese.

Apricot Crumb Cake

Spoil Mom this Mother’s Day with this apricot crumb cake. It’s a perfect sweet breakfast treat for the woman who deserves it all.

Savory and Sweet Mac and Cheese

Exactly what you were thinking – a mac and cheese that is both sweet and savory? Well, it’s pretty darn good.

Pastiera Napoletana

A delicious Easter pie prepared with Italian pie dough filled with cooked wheat kernels, ricotta cheese, candied fruits, eggs and sugar.

Basil Goat Cheese and Blueberry Scones

These basil, goat cheese and blueberry scones are filled delightful combination of sweet and savory flavors that are perfect for brunch.

Apricot Ginger Tart

With a flaky almond crust, these stunning tarts with apricot preserves and ginger are the perfect sweet treat for a special brunch or Mother’s Day celebration.

Blueberry Breakfast Strata

This blueberry breakfast strata with fresh thyme and gruyere cheese looks impressive, but is so easy to make for brunch.

Strawberry Muffins for Mom

Bring Mom a tray of these homemade strawberry muffins for a delightful breakfast in bed this Mother’s Day.