Dessert Recipes
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Red Velvet Whoopie Pies
Iconic, irresistible, and universally adored, whoopie pies are one of the most delicious desserts around! This recipe for a red velvet version are delicate, delicious, and very easy to make.
Easy Beginner’s Sponge Cake & Boston Cream Pie
If you’ve never made a sponge cake, this is a fantastic recipe to start your baking adventure. It is also a good base in our Boston Cream Pie recipe because it doesn’t require any tricky folding or separating of eggs usually required for making a good sponge cake.
Big Texas Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This is a big ol’ cake with a shocking red color and an extra-tender cake piled high with fluffy cream cheese frosting. The finished cake is almost a foot tall when frosted! It’s a wonderful dramatic dessert.
The Best French Macarons
French Macarons are the pinnacle of baking confectionery genius. Macarons take cookies to an unimaginable extreme of culinary perfection. Don’t confuse Macarons with the coconut cookies called “macaroons.” These almond flour cookies are made with a meringue base. When baked correctly, they have a light, crisp sugary coating surrounding a tender, chewy cookie interior.
4 Easy Delicious Homemade Holiday Cookie Mixes
This cookie mix recipe collection is just fantastic! There are four flavor variations here in one post. Homemade mixes are easy to make and you can control the ingredients. It’s a wonderful way to bake from scratch and still enjoy the convenience of a mix.
Gingerbread Cutout Cookie Formulation
Gingerbread cookies are perhaps the most requested and baked cookies of the Holiday Season. Here is a fantastic formula that will give you excellent shape and texture.
Cake Recipes
Easy Beginner’s Sponge Cake & Boston Cream Pie
If you’ve never made a sponge cake, this is a fantastic recipe to start your baking adventure. It is also a good base in our Boston Cream Pie recipe because it doesn’t require any tricky folding or separating of eggs usually required for making a good sponge cake.
Big Texas Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This is a big ol’ cake with a shocking red color and an extra-tender cake piled high with fluffy cream cheese frosting. The finished cake is almost a foot tall when frosted! It’s a wonderful dramatic dessert.
Gingerbread Pound Cake with Browned Butter Pecan Glaze
This recipe for gingerbread pound cake makes a rich, dense cake with a tender crumb. The sponge of the cake is a fine texture with a silky finish. It stays moist for several days and is heavy with spice and a hint of warm black pepper.
Cookies & Bars Recipes
Our Chef’s Best Recipe Chocolate Chip Cookies
Now and then, we come across recipes in the test kitchen that we use for years on end. This chocolate chip cookie recipe is one of them. Our pastry chef has used it in restaurants and bakeries for the last 25 years with rave reviews. You’ll soon see why.
Best Ever Bakery Blondie Formulation with Pecan and White Chocolate
Blondies are a classic bar cookie and the perfect afternoon snack. They are chewy and caramel flavored with vanilla.
Best Quick Gluten Free Almond Flour Fudge Brownies
Have you ever tried the recipe right off of the package of our almond flour?! We save only the best ones for the supreme honor of the package. Our chef’s Almond Flour Macadamia Fudge Brownies are absolutely divine.
Pie Recipes
Classic Mile High Apple Pie
This pie recipe effortlessly combines everything we love about pies. A super buttery flaky crust that melts in your mouth and a sweet (but not-too-sweet) fresh apple filling that evokes a sense of down-home warmth and comfort.
Home Baker’s Perfect Pie Crust Tutorial
Today we’re covering some of the top tips and tricks used by our chefs to create some of the best pies in the baking industry.
Spiced Cherry Cranberry Pie
This crisp flaky crust is the right contrast to the tender juicy fruit-filled center of this pie that is bursting with cherries and a handful of cranberries to add the right balance of tartness. There are hints of citrus and spice in the filling as well, adding subtle nuances of gourmet elegance.
