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All Butter Crust for Sweet and Savory Pies (Pâte Brisée)

An all butter pie crust recipe for sweet and savory pies. Pâte Brisée recipe.

All Butter Pie Crust with Almonds

With the substitution of almond flour for part of the wheat flour, this recipe makes a truly special pie crust for sweet pies. This recipe make enough pie dough for one 10-inch pie, top and bottom crust.

Anadama Bread

Traditional New England Anandama bread, a dark yeast bread made with flour, cornmeal, and molasses.

Apple Carrot Cupcake

Moist and delicious apple carrot spice cupcakes with a goat cheese and cream cheese frosting.

Apple Coffee Cake

Delicious apple coffee cake recipe. Perfect apple cake for the Jewish High Holidays.

Apple Cranberry Pie

This apple cranberry pie recipe is the perfect apple pie for Thanksgiving, and what we make every year. Flakey buttery crust, spiced apples mixed with dried cranberries and brandy.

Apple Turnovers

Simple apple turnovers with diced tart apples, currants, walnuts, sugar and cinnamon, baked in puff pastry.

Apple Upside Down Cake

Upside down apple cake with caramel sauce and apple wedges in a flour cornmeal batter.

Apple Walnut Gorgonzola Rustic Tart

Easy to make savory rustic tart with Granny Smith apples, walnuts, maple syrup, thyme and gorgonzola cheese

Applesauce Spice Cake

Easy applesauce spice cake, made with applesauce, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, walnuts, and raisins.

Baklava

Baklava pastry recipe, layers of phyllo dough filled with honey, walnuts and pistachios.

Banana Bread

Moist and delicious classic banana bread recipe. Easy to make, no need for a mixer. Ripe bananas, butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, baking soda, and flour.

Banana Nut Muffins

If time and waistline permitted, I could wake up every morning to these banana nut muffins. Banana nut muffin recipe with ripe bananas, walnuts, sugar, egg, flour, espresso.

Banana Sheet Cake

Easy banana sheet cake with cream cheese frosting, perfect for a large gathering.

Bisquick Apple Coffee Cake

Apple coffee cake recipe made with Bisquick baking mix, with brown sugar streusel topping.

Blackberry Muffins

Rich, moist, lucious blackberry muffins recipe. A family favorite.

Blueberry Buckle

Blueberry buckle recipe, an old-fashioned single layered cake, peppered with blueberries, and topped with a streusel topping.

Blueberry Cake

Lovely blueberry cake recipe, simple single layer cake made with two cups of fresh blueberries.

Blueberry Maple Breakfast Bake

Great brunch party bread pudding casserole, with maple syrup and blueberries. Breakfast bake recipe.

Blueberry Muffins

Fabulous blueberry muffins recipe - light, fluffy, and packed with blueberries. An all time favorite.

Blueberry Pie

Simple, classic blueberry pie recipe, perfect for the summer blueberry season.

Boston Brown Bread

Classic Boston brown bread studded with raisins and steamed in a coffee can.

Boysenberry Cobbler

Quick and easy, classic boysenberry cobbler recipe.

Boysenberry Pie

Homemade boysenberry pie recipe with fresh off-the-vine boysenberries, a cross between blackberries, loganberries, and raspberries.

Buttermilk Biscuits with Goat Cheese and Chives

Savory buttermilk biscuits made with goat cheese and chives.

Buttery Apple Torte

Italian apple torte, a single layer buttery cake filled with apple slices.

Caramelized Nut Tart

Do you love nuts? This nut tart recipe combines walnuts, pecans, and almonds, in a caramel filling, served in a buttery crust.

Caraway Soda Bread

Irish soda bread with flour, baking soda, buttermilk, and caraway seeds. Easy to make, no need for a mixer.

Carrot Cake

Our favorite carrot cake recipe, with walnuts, coconut, and pineapple, and a cream cheese frosting.

Carrot Cake Cupcakes

The. Best. Carrot. Cake. Cupcakes. Ever. (And a cream cheese frosting.)

Cheddar and Jalapeño Biscuits

Light and airy cheesy biscuits packed with sharp cheddar and spicy fresh jalapeños.

Cheese Biscuits

Quick and easy biscuits filled with Parmesan cheese, black pepper, and scallions. An ideal bread for a picnic, dinner party, or for last minute guests.

Cheesy Skillet Cornbread

Cornbread packed with cheese, onions, whole corn, and flavored with bacon drippings. Cooked in a cast iron skillet.

Cherry Clafouti

Fresh cherries baked in a custard-like base with slivered almonds and a splash of Amaretto, then lightly dusted with powdered sugar.

Chiffon Pumpkin Pie

A truly special pumpkin pie with a jelled pumpkin and meringue filling and a gingersnap cookie crust.

Chinese Chews

Chinese chews, a sweet treat made with chopped dates and walnuts, and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Chocolate Bourbon Cake

Delicious chocolate bundt cake infused with bourbon whiskey.

Chocolate Guinness Cake

Rich, moist, chocolate cake spiked with stout beer. Malty, sweet, and perfect for a St. Patrick's day party.

Chocolate Mint Cupcakes

If Thin Mints were cupcakes, they would be these. Dark chocolate, minty, cakey cupcakes.

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Chocolate zucchini bread that's rich, moist, and with a tender crumb. Made with cocoa powder for extra chocolate intensity.

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

Tried and true moist chocolate zucchini cake with shredded zucchini, orange peel, pecans and a sugar glaze.

Cinnamon Sticky Buns

Cinnamon sweet sticky buns, with melted brown sugar and pecans.

Coconut Cupcakes with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting

One of the best cupcakes ever made. Rich and light coconut cupcakes with a creamy coconut frosting.

Cowboy Cookies

Laura Bush's kitchen sink cowboy cookies, with oatmeal, pecans, coconut, and chocolate chips.

Cranberry Nut Bread

Moist and delicious cranberry nut bread with chopped cranberries, walnuts, and hints of orange.

Cream Cheese Frosting

Quick, easy, and delicious cream cheese frosting, for cakes and cupcakes.

Double Vanilla Cupcakes

Vanilla cupcakes made with vanilla beans in both the cupcake and the buttercream frosting.

Easy Brazilian Cheese Bread

Simple and gluten-free Brazilian cheese bread, or Pão de Queijo, made with tapioca flour, milk, eggs, olive oil, and cheese.

Extra Thick Apple Pie

Also called mile-high apple pie, this extra thick apple pie is stacked high with apples, not overly sweet, and has a buttery crust. The problem with baking thick apple pies is that the apples shrink as they cook, leaving a gap between the crust and the apples, which usually collapses upon cooling. The trick is to gently cook the apples first, so that they do their reducing before they go in the pie.

Fig Galette

Rustic fig galette with a simple butter crust, a layer of marmalade, and quartered fresh mission figs.

Flourless Lemon Almond Cake

A gluten-free, light and airy lemon cake make with almond flour, eggs, and sugar.

Focaccia Bread with Rosemary

Homemade focaccia bread, dimpled Italian flat bread, flavored with olive oil and rosemary.

Garlic Knots

A classic Italian pizzeria snack, garlic knots are strips of pizza dough tied in a knot, baked and then topped with melted butter, garlic and parsley.

George’s Light Rye Bread

Light, soft inside, crusty crust, homemade rye bread, with or without carraway seeds.

Ginger Scones

Super gingery buttermilk scones, made with both candied and fresh ginger, with a hint of lemon.

Gingerbread Cake

Old-fashioned gingerbread cake loaded with three kinds of ginger, spices, honey and molasses.

Gingerbread Cupcakes

Holiday spiced molasses gingerbread cupcakes with tangy lemon icing.

Glazed Lemon Bread

Lemon loaf cake with touches of cardamom and honey, with lemon, sugar, and honey glaze.

Gluten-free Pumpkin Cupcakes

Spicy, moist, sweet pumpkin cupcakes with a cream cheese maple syrup butter frosting. Uses Red Mill gluten-free flour mix made from potato starch, garbanzo flour, tapioca flour, sorghum, and fava.

Grandma’s Zucchini Cake

My grandmother's recipe for a gently spicy sheet cake, made with freshly grated zucchini.

Green Chile Cornbread

Flavorful and moist green chile cornbread, packed with corn, cheese, and Anaheim or Hatch green chiles.

Guinness Bread with Molasses

Classic beer quick bread made with Irish Guinness and molasses.

Homemade Pizza

Classic homemade pizza recipe, including pizza dough and toppings, step-by-step instructions with photos. Make perfect pizza at home!

Hot Cross Buns

Traditional Good Friday treat, hot cross buns, slightly sweet yeast-leavened buns, spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves, and speckled with currants, citron, and orange zest.

Hummingbird Cake

Classic Southern cake made with bananas, pineapple, chopped pecans, and topped with a cream cheese frosting. And more pecans.

Irish Soda Bread

Quick and easy Irish soda bread recipe with flour, baking soda, salt, buttermilk, raisins, an egg, and a touch of sugar.

Lemon Blueberry Ricotta Pound Cake

Delicious fine crumb pound cake with butter, eggs, ricotta cheese, sugar, flour, lemon zest, and blueberries.

Lemon Ginger Muffins

Light and fluffly lemon ginger muffins, with fresh ginger and lemon zest, and a lemon juice sugar glaze.

Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

Perfect poppy seed muffins with lemon zest and a sugar lemon glaze.

Lemon Rosemary Zucchini Bread

Lovely, moist zucchini bread with fresh rosemary and lemon zest.

Lemon Tart

Positively scrumptious lemon tart with lemon curd, candied lemon peel, and an almond-hinted shortbread crust.

Marion Blackberry Shortcake

Berry shortcake recipe made with sweet marion blackberries, or marionberries. Several biscuit recipes, including a scratch biscuit recipe, recipe for Bisquick biscuits, and a gluten-free biscuit recipe.

Mrs. Adams’ Delicious Pound Cake

A truly delicious pound cake recipe made with 1 lb of Imperial margarine, 6 eggs, 1 lb of sugar, and 3 cups of cake flour.

Mrs. Paxton’s Raw Apple Cake

Spicy bundt cake made with chopped fresh apples, grated coconut, and walnuts or pecans, topped with a sugar glaze.

Oatmeal Muffins with Raisins, Dates, and Walnuts

Moist oatmeal muffins studded with fruit and nuts, and flavored with buttermilk and cinnamon.

Oatmeal Soda Bread

Oatmeal soda bread, a quick bread made with finely ground rolled oats, flour, buttermilk, an egg, and leavened with baking soda.

Old Fashioned Apple Pie

Old fashioned apple pie recipe with 3 pounds of sliced cooking apples, sugar, allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla and brandy, baked up in an all-butter crust.

Orange Bread

Orange quick bread with fresh grated orange zest, golden raisins, and an optional orange lemon glaze.

Orange Cornmeal Cake

Orange cornmeal cake recipe, kind of a cross between a coffee cake and cornbread. Light, moist, not too sweet.

Patricia’s Holiday Fruitcake

Fabulous holiday fruitcake recipe with dates, raisins, walnuts, glazed cherries, and orange zest. Christmas fruitcake recipe.

Peach Cobbler

Peach cobbler, easy and delicious, prepared with ripe yellow peaches, lemon, nutmeg, and a crumbled dough topping.

Pear and Cranberry Rustic Tart

Rustic tart with Bosc or Bartlett pears, fresh cranberries, ginger, and a touch of almond.

Pear Ginger Maple Pie

Pear pie with streusel topping, filled with chopped pears and accented with candied ginger and maple syrup. A perfectly delicious autumn pie.

Pear Tart

Delicate and delicious pear tart, thinly sliced Bosc pears arranged over frangipane almond paste, glazed with apricot jam, in an all-butter crust.

Pecan Pie

Traditional pecan pie recipe using fresh pecans, molasses, corn syrup, brown sugar, and eggs.

Perfect Cheesecake

Beautiful, classic cheesecake, tangy and sweet, with a velvety smooth and rich texture.

Perfect Pie Crust

Several pie crust recipes - an all butter pie crust, or pate brisee, an all butter crust with almonds, combining butter and shortening crust, and how to pre-bake or blind-bake a pie crust.

Persimmon Pudding Cake

Rich and wonderful persimmon pudding cake, made with hachiya persimmon pulp, eggs, butter, milk, vanilla, flour, sugar, spices, and chopped nuts.

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

The best pineapple upside down cake recipe ever. No kidding. Caramel topping with pineapple rounds over a dense cake with almond flour.

Plum Cobbler

Easy and delicious classic plum cobbler, using Santa Rosa plums, topped with a biscuity cobbler topping.

Plum Upside Down Cake

Delicious individual sized upside down cakes made with plums.

Poppy Seed Kolache

Classic Czechoslovakian kolache pastry, with a poppy seed filling. Minnesota style, the pastry is folded up on itself.

Pumpkin Bread

What to do with leftover pumpkin? Make pumpkin bread of course! Easy pumpkin bread recipe with pumpkin puree and walnuts, and spiced with nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice.

Pumpkin Cheesecake

Tall and creamy pumpkin cheesecake with a graham cracker crust.

Pumpkin Ginger Nut Muffins

Pumpkin muffins recipe, with nuts, spiced with ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice. Quick and easy to make.

Pumpkin Gingerbread

Perfect for the holidays, richly flavored pumpkin gingerbread made with pumpkin purée, flour, butter, ginger, molasses, brown sugar, and lots of spices.

Raspberry Walnut Tart

Raspberry tart with a shortbread crust, chopped walnuts, raspberries, and custardy filling.

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Love red velvet cake? Here it is in cupcake form. Classic red velvet cupcakes with a luscious cream cheese frosting.

Rhubarb Ginger Galette

Rustic rhubarb tart recipe, easy to make, perfect for spring. Slice rhubarb with candied ginger and sugar filling in an unstructured butter-crust.

Rustic Apricot Tart

Rustic apricot tart, with cardamom and chipotle powder to give it its unique flavor. Baked on the grill, perfect for a hot summer day when you don't want to heat up the kitchen.

Rustic Onion Tart

Rustic onion tart with caramelized red onions, Gruyere cheese, and an all-butter crust.

Soda Bread Biscuits

Like mini Irish soda breads, these biscuits are made with flour, baking soda, sugar, butter, and buttermilk. Add-ins like raisins and caraway seeds optional.

Southern Cornbread

A Southern-style savory cornbread, baked in a hot iron skillet.

Strawberry Mascarpone Tart

Tart with fresh strawberries, macerated in sugar, over a creamy mascarpone base and brushed with a balsamic glaze.

Strawberry Oatmeal Muffins

Tender oatmeal muffins peppered with fresh strawberries that have macerated in sugar and balsamic.

Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler

Easy-to-make strawberry rhubarb cobbler. Strawberries, rhubarb, sugar, orange peel baked with a biscuit-like cobbler crust topping. Serve with whipped cream.

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Classic and delicious strawberry rhubarb pie recipe. Sweet fresh strawberries paired with tart rhubarb and a hint of orange zest.

Strawberry Shortcake

Old-fashioned strawberry shortcake recipe, with fresh strawberries, sliced and macerated in sugar, spooned over freshly baked biscuits, topped with whipped cream.

Super Easy, Super Moist Chocolate Cupcakes

Easy to make, unusually moist chocolate cupcakes and no mixer required! No eggs either, the recipe uses a combo of baking soda and vinegar for leavening.

Suzanne’s Best Brownies

The best chocolate brownie recipe, with flour, cocoa, eggs, sugar, butter, pecans, and a touch of almond extract.

Suzanne’s Chocolate Cake

Rich, moist, three-layer chocolate cake with a butter cocoa frosting.

Suzanne’s Old Fashioned Pumpkin Pie

Easy and delicious traditional pumpkin pie recipe with fresh or canned pumpkin puree, cream, brown and white sugar, eggs, and pumpkin spice.

Swedish Coffee Bread

Swedish coffee bread, a slightly sweet yeast bread flavored with cardamom, and either braided or made into a wreath-shaped pastry.

Sweet Potato Pie with Pecan Topping

Holiday sweet potato pie with a pecan topping. Sweet potatoes baked with eggs, brown sugar, maple syrup and spices into a pre-baked butter pie crust, topped with pecans.

Walnut Maple Pie

Walnut pie, similar to pecan pie, with fresh chopped walnuts, in a custardy base, sweetened with maple syrup.

Walnut Mocha Torte

German-style torte made with ground walnuts, whipped eggs, and bread crumbs, and a mocha whipped cream frosting.

White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies

White chocolate and macadamia nut cookies spiked with just a touch of coffee.

Zucchini Bread

A delicious, easy-to-make, moist zucchini bread recipe, with freshly grated zucchini, cinnamon, nutmeg, and optional walnuts and dried cranberries or raisins.

Zucchini Bread with Pineapple

Moist and delicious zucchini bread, a quick bread made with fresh grated zucchini and crushed pineapple.

Zucchini Muffins

The best zucchini bread muffins ever. Moist, sweet, packed with shredded zucchini, walnuts, dried cranberries, and spiced with vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg.