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Step-by-step photo guide is below, followed by the recipe. Dry ingredients are mixed together. Cold chunks of butter are added. Butter is mixed in by hand until it's the size of peas. Sour cream, berries, and crystallized ginger are added. The mixture is combined until
Get more recipes like this delivered straight to your inbox plus instant access to my free 3-Step Guide to Baking in Advance. Don't miss out. Sign up now. These large, chewy, bakery-style cookies are a must for anyone's repertoire. These are just about as easy as my Salted Chocolate Chunk
Get more tips like this and proven recipes delivered straight to your inbox plus instant access to my free 3-Step Guide to Baking in Advance. Don't miss out. Sign up now. A while back, America's Test Kitchen conducted a blind taste test of dark chocolate. I know, we all chose the wrong
You want to do more baking, but it sounds daunting. Maybe you don’t even know where to start. You love the idea of treating your friends and family, but you don’t have the time. At least not Monday through Friday. Here are 20 of my favorite tried & true tactics that are guaranteed to save
Get more recipes like this delivered straight to your inbox plus instant access to my free 3-Step Guide to Baking in Advance. Don't miss out. Sign up now. Happy Valentine's Week! Just when you were getting your diet back on track after the holidays, February 14th hits you right
Get more recipes like this delivered straight to your inbox plus instant access to my free 3-Step Guide to Baking in Advance. Don't miss out. Sign up now. These blondies are quite possibly the easiest from-scratch recipe you can make. They're made in one bowl. You can easily mix the
Are you one of those people that gets seated at a restaurant and you immediately ask to switch to a different table? I am. I don’t want to sit in a corner staring at the restroom. I don’t want to sit next to the air vent that blows like five hairs on my forehead. I don’t want to sit next to
Get more recipes like this delivered straight to your inbox plus instant access to my free 3-Step Guide to Baking in Advance. Don't miss out. Sign up now. I've never been a fan of the Toll House cookie recipe on the back of the package. Sure, that's what I used for years, but I always
I was in NYC last week with my mom and sister, dodging Winter Storm Jonas by just a few hours. We made it out unscathed, but I can't say the same for our wallets. I planned the entire trip down to the hour. I mean, you kind of have to if you have limited time in NYC. Every meal, every snack,
I don’t have time to bake. You don’t have time to bake. But how would you like to never bring store-bought treats to a party again? Today I’m going to show you my favorite strategy to make that happen. Also, I have a special free bonus to help you even further. Make sure you read all the way
Join other Bake Like A Champ readers and discover a game-changing approach to baking from scratch that fits into your busy life. Click here for instant access to my free 3-Step Guide to Baking in Advance today. This is not about how to bake gluten-free or low-sugar. This is about how I managed
Well I'm not a government spy. But I did attend pastry boot camp at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) this past summer. As I was thinking about what I took away from 2015, that experience stood out in my mind. When I returned home from the CIA, so many people asked what I learned.
Get more recipes like this delivered straight to your inbox plus instant access to my free 3-Step Guide to Baking in Advance. Don't miss out. Sign up now. I've attempted cinnamon rolls many times. "Attempted" might be used loosely. I look for recipes, realize I have to wait 3 hours for
Get more recipes like this delivered straight to your inbox plus instant access to my free 3-Step Guide to Baking in Advance. Don’t miss out. Sign up now. Recently I was invited to participate in The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap, which brings food bloggers from all over the world together
Today I'm giving you an easy guide to making homemade food gifts for the holidays. I have 3 rules, which I've outlined below. You don't have to be a pro baker or craft enthusiast to do this. My friends were actually asking me in October what I'm planning to give this year. And last year I didn't
Get more recipes like this delivered straight to your inbox plus instant access to my free 3-Step Guide to Baking in Advance. Don’t miss out. Sign up now. Candy making without a thermometer. 20 minutes prep time. I’m in on this. People will not believe you made it yourself! Here’s how I
The thought has probably crossed your mind to have people over for the holidays. But you'd have to get the house cleaned, spend hours figuring out which appetizers you're going to serve, go on a huge grocery run, buy drinks.... it's a lot. Today I’ll show you, step by step, how to turn Christmas
Today I’m giving you my go-to holiday cookie recipes. I've tested these for years so you don't have to. Since the holidays usually involve sharing, the last thing you need to be giving your friends and family are stale-tasting, dry cookies. These recipes don’t have chunks of nuts or random pieces
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, people! My family is in for a treat with the recipes I've selected. In true Bake Like A Champ fashion, I've selected recipes that are simple yet pack a big wow factor. What are you all cooking and baking? Let me know in the comments below! The Main
Presentation is everything. Well, almost everything. When I bake, I usually have a lot of leftovers. Except for those times when it's just me, a fork, an apple pie, and a Saturday. Anyway, the reason why I bake is because I want to treat my friends and family. For the next several weeks, or
Get more recipes like this delivered straight to your inbox plus instant access to my free 3-Step Guide to Baking in Advance. Don’t miss out. Sign up now. I’ve been spending months perfecting a pie crust and apple pie recipe for you people. Well, and my family, but that’s beside the
After spending all day Thursday cooking the Thanksgiving meal, Friday food is the last thing I want to think about. This year I decided to make our breakfast for Friday morning ahead of time. When everyone wakes up the day after Thanksgiving, in less than 30 minutes we'll have warm pumpkin scones
“I bet you could cut back on the sugar and flour in that recipe!” My mental response: “You’re dead to me”. My actual response: “Well, it doesn’t really work like that, but maybe I’ll figure out how!” If I had a nickel for every time I heard something like this, whether it’s certain skinny
Recently I was invited to contribute a recipe to Family Focus Blog, a website started by the cutest Mom, Scarlet. She shares tons of family-friendly tips for travel, food and decor, among many other topics. You can check out my Simple Apple Galette recipe and how I made it on Scarlet's blog here.
This is the holy grail. An easy-to-make baked good that looks so impressive, your friends and family will think you jetted off to pastry school overnight. In France, they have these tarts called Tarte Soleil, which means “sun pie.” The fact that the name of this is in French… you’re basically
So my life in college was basically: go to class, eat raw cookie dough, bake cookies, study, repeat. Many years later, I didn’t have roommates to bake for, and I found myself making batches of cookies that I was throwing in the trash the next day. Why was I throwing perfectly good cookies in the
I don’t know about you, but packaged candy is not my jam. If I’m going to eat the calories, I want a proper chocolate bar. I find myself conflicted at Halloween every year because I want to eat ALL OF THE CANDY, but as soon as I try a piece, I’m a little disappointed. The waxy and way-too-sweet
Do you have a bowl? Do you have two hands? Do you have 15 minutes? Then YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN PIE CRUST! I’m telling you, you’ll never go back to buying store bought pie crust again. This recipe is a game-changer. Please try it yourself before you think you can’t do it. If you serve pie at
I’m not a professional baker or pastry chef. I’ve screwed up a million times. Really, a million. The only real baking lessons I received were from my mom. In addition to many tips, she taught me that I can't eat raw cookie dough and that she won’t eat a baked good if a raisin gets within 10 feet of
The combination of pumpkin and cream cheese is everything! Especially at this time of year! Hey, I’m not going to judge if you make these cookies in June. I am ALL GOOD with that. These are pumpkin cookies with a cream prednisone cheese frosting, and they are so easy!! They’re so soft it’s almost like they’re