Baked Goods

The citrusy flavor is unreal.

The one-pot affair comes together without fuss, when you need it most.

Bananas, dates, oats, and nuts — that's it.

Chocolate and peanut butter are BFFs for good reason.

Imagine the tines of your forking breaking through, almost snapping, the velvety crust of a fruit tart. It crumbles a bit, but is far from dry — each bite more rich and buttery than the last. That tender crust is typically known as pâte sablée. Unlike a flaky pie crust, pâte sablée is crisp and more cookie-like. The name literally means “sandy,” although it’s anything but.

Here are the three essential steps you need to know for making a classic fruit crumble.

Buttery, chewy, and 100% crave-worthy!

Even ho-hum strawberries bake up delicious in this cobbler.

Like a tomato and mayo sandwich, in pie form.

This Tennessee classic is a labor of love, but it just gets better after it's made. So bake a cake and nibble away all week long.

A savory and satisfying vegetarian option for your holiday spread

Baked oatmeal is the queen of make-ahead, easy-to-adapt breakfasts.

You might know it as sugar pie!

This savory muffin's got it all: eggs, sausage, cheese, spinach, and even a bit of apple to help you power through your day.

Ready the vanilla ice cream.

Like the classic salad, but way better.

Get ready for people to demand seconds.

This fast and fancy dessert is the ultimate crowd-pleaser.

Do you like éclairs? What about profiteroles, cream puffs, and cheesy gougères? Aside from making us drool just thinking about them, the one thing all these pastries have in common is that they are made from pâte à choux — a staple of the French pastry kitchen. Pâte à choux is a paste made of flour, water, butter, and eggs; it’s slightly thicker than a batter, but not quite as thick as a dough. Here’s how to make them.

Just when I thought I’d filled my arsenal with enough delicious homemade holiday treats, along came heavenly hash to sweep them all under the carpet. The combination of bittersweet chocolate, roasted almonds, and marshmallows is truly a gift from above! Heavenly Hash may be better known as an ice cream flavor, but it actually started out as a candy.

Red velvet cake with a truly stunning hue and perfect velvet crumb every time.

It couldn’t be easier to assemble.

Because we think you don't always need an occasion to bake one.

It's a game changer.

If your spring season is scheduled with gatherings that require sweet treats that are as festive and pretty as they are delicious, these cookies definitely fit the bill.

In the "Fat" episode of Netflix's "Salt Fat Acid Heat", Samin makes focaccia with Diego in northern Italy. Here's the recipe so you can make it at home, too.

Are you familiar with grissini? A far cry from their soft, chewy pizza parlor cousins, grissini are long, thin, Italian-style breadsticks. They are crisp all the way through and can be flavored with various herbs, seeds, and spices to complement whatever else you may be serving. You can wrap them with paper-thin slices of prosciutto for a classic presentation, but they’re equally delicious served just as they are.

Cheddar- and jalapeño-flecked cornbread muffins are all too easy to love.

Measure your life in l ... emon pie.

In case you’re new here, you may not yet have noticed: I love eggs. For breakfast or dinner; scrambled, hardboiled, fried, or poached. I don’t like to play favorites, but baking them in individual ramekins until the whites are barely set and the yolks reach that creamy, pudding-like consistency may, perhaps, be my egg de resistance. It’s so easy and has an air of fancy that makes a weekend breakfast feel extra special. Here’s how to do it.

“Without fail, every time I meet someone new and they find out I’m a pastry chef, they’ll ask me, ‘What’s your favorite thing to bake?’ It took me nearly ten years before I turned the question into an opportunity to shed more light on who I am. My answer now? Poke cake.”

Accidentally gluten-free, healthy-ish, and dang delicious.

We love a good soup or stew around here. But do you know what elevates soup into a whole cozy experience? Bread. Picture it: Spoon in one hand, a nice chunk of crusty bread in the other, ready to soak up all the flavors. We have so many warm and comforting soup recipes for chilly weather. And right here we have the absolute best breads to accompany those soups — like, soup soul mates. For real.

Just say yes to the bread basket.

There's really no wrong time for a slice.

It's a staple at every Midwestern potluck.

Baklava is one of those desserts that has a reputation for difficulty, but is actually surprisingly easy to make.

From beginner baker to seasoned pro, there's one that's just right for you.

It’s a perfect vessel for ice cream.

The internet freaked out over this Costco hit, and now you can make it at home.

It feels so fancy to put them on a cookie tray for a spot of afternoon tea.

Here’s what makes a tarte Tatin so fabulous: even if your crust isn’t perfect, even if it crumbles a bit when you flip it (as my buttery crust has done this time), and even if the tarte is not perfectly centered on your serving platter, it will still taste like something that came directly from heaven. Tender apples in a deeply caramelized sauce will cover a multitude of other culinary imperfections.

Your inner child will thank you.

It’s stunningly easy.

We've updated this classic technique for no-knead bread to make it tastier and easier!

They're thick, super soft, and delightfully unfussy!

Chocolate chip cookies are like a hug in food form. It’s not hard to see why they’re one of the most popular types of cookies, with melting pockets of chocolate encased in buttery vanilla dough. Although they come in many forms — thin, crispy, cakey, dense — I have to say my favorite is chewy with a crisp edge and some toasted nuts (in this case, almonds) mixed in for an extra crunch.

The blue hue comes from a freezer staple.

Crisp on the outside, gooey on the inside.

Joanna says that she spent a year's worth of Saturdays perfecting this biscuit recipe.

Ready for the best cobbler of your life — one that you can memorize and bake anywhere, anytime? Here's how to do it.

And it lets you off the hook with dishes.

For an average weeknight mealIt’s rich, a touch tangy, and not overly sweet, making it a good match for everythingroastpot of chiliwhipped creamdessert However the first quick breads came about, I am grateful. When else do we get to essentially dump ingredients in a bowl, stir, bake, and then be rewarded for our minimal efforts with a warm golden loaf of bread for the table?

We fully support your decision to start the day by eating a tiny cake.

A Madeira cake is the sort of plain cake that looks like it might be dull and dry, but instead turns out to be exceptionally moreish.

Prepare to fall in love with this easy homemade biko.

Late one summer, when I was about 12 years old, my mother packed us all up in the van and took us to a small local fair. At this point there were six of us kids (or was it seven?) and any excuse to get out of the house was a good one. But my mom had a mission — she wasn’t just going to drag us out to a county fair. She was entering a baking contest. She wrapped up a couple loaves of intensely lemony quick bread, drizzled with lemon syrup and sprinkled generously with zest.

I had a few realizations over the holidays this year with family. There were the usual suspects, of course: travel mayhem, gifting stress, and family drama. But this year there was a new player on the block: bad casseroles. I’m not sure if it was just chance or if my mom and sisters were digging through old late 1980’s cookbooks, but we had some very heavy, flavorless casseroles during the Christmas holiday.

Scarpaccia is a rustic Italian tart originating from the region of Tuscany. Zucchini is the star of this dish, which makes it the perfect recipe to make all summer long. Here, sliced zucchini is coated with a simple batter of flour, eggs, milk, cheese, and fresh herbs. You can add whatever fresh garden herbs you have on hand, but fresh basil is my favorite! Here’s how to make it. Zucchini: You can use all zucchini, or a mix of zucchini and summer squash.

Can you guess what the second ingredient is?

How do you take a pita pocket full of deep-fried falafel — handed to you by a street vendor and devoured on sight — and turn it into a reasonably healthy, everyday affair that you can make at home? The power of the oven. And to make these Middle Eastern baked falafel, all you need is canned chickpeas, onion, garlic, a handful of fresh herbs, and a few spices. These baked falafel have been in my lunch and dinner meal rotation for years now.

This stunning savory stuffed pumpkin is bound to be the pièce de résistance at your next party, but don’t fret — while it is definitely a noteworthy centerpiece, it won’t give you nearly as much grief as a turkey dinner for 12 people! This recipe, a mash-up of sausage, bread and cheese, is guaranteed to impress guests when it makes its grand debut at the table.

I wish you could smell these fall-inspired muffins cooling on my counter right now. Better yet, I wish you could actually be here in my kitchen right now. Because then we could sit down with mugs of coffee and one muffin each, and break off nutmeg-scented nibbles as we trade stories about our day. These muffins, which are great for breakfast, might just be one of my crowning achievements.

I'll take a dozen, please.

Bring together brioche bread and a sweet custard and you have a never-fail, crowd-pleasing dessert.

I have been meaning to try a yogurt cake for a long time. Clotilde at Chocolate & Zucchini says that gâteau au yaourt is a simple classic, a cake that is often the first thing that French children learn to bake. It doesn’t need a mixer or more than one bowl — or more than 10 minutes, for that matter. And its tangy, fluffy texture is just a perfect pair for summer berries.

You probably have everything you need to make it right now.

If you've never cooked with rhubarb before, this is the perfect place to start.

Looking for an easy-to-make alternative to dinner rolls? These cheese puffs are the ticket.

And it uses up leftovers!

Even if you're just getting started these will make you feel like a star baker.