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Tender Orange Scones with Glaze
I was in my early twenties and I had never eaten a proper scone. My initial encounters had all been tasteless affairs: coffee-chain-store scones that crumbled all over my lap when I bit into them and left me frantically guzzling down coffee as I tried to swallow the dry, sugary…
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Banana Bread Bars with Fudge Buttercream
I honestly woke up this morning craving these particular bars, even though I had never made them. I set off to my kitchen and must admit they are the best thing I have made in quite awhile; the moist banana base and rich chocolate buttercream paired perfectly together. This is a…
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Pan-Banging Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
It has been ten years since the original pan-banging chocolate chip cookie recipe was published in my Vanilla Bean Baking Book , and I am floored that so many of you are still making them! Bakers tapping their cookie pans in the oven isn’t new, of course, but the pan-banging…
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Pecan Streusel Pear Tart
This is a tart I’ve been making since the early 2000’s; it was a recipe made at a coffeehouse I worked at in south Minneapolis, and brought along with me to another coffeehouse I baked for. The original recipe was based on a streusel tart from the Joy of Cooking, particularly…
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Creamy Almond & Lemon Coffee Cakes
Yes, I’ve made quite a few of these little cakes now: the original jammy cakes, then pumpkin and carrot. There is also banana, and cherry. I love them all equally, but the tart lemon curd and rich almond cream hit all the right notes in this version, and they are a treat. Lemon…
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Banana Bread Scones with Toasted Sesame Icing
I make scones for every possible occasion, as they can be shaped ahead of time and frozen, then pulled out and baked as needed. I like them plain, packed with fruit, dusted in sugar, coated in icing, studded with chocolate and white chocolate and more chocolate, dotted with…
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Soft Carrot Cake Cinnamon Rolls
These Carrot Cake Cinnamon Rolls are adapted from a recipe in my book, 100 Morning Treats. The recipe found there is for a Giant Carrot Cake Cinnamon Roll, which is a fun project, but I went with individual buns using the sweet dough base from my soft and gooey Cinnamon Rolls…
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Moist Cherry Almond Muffins
Back in college when I was working at the Blue Heron Coffeehouse, Cherry Almond was a popular muffin flavor that showed up in the bake case at least once a week. Since my reader favorite Blueberry Muffin recipe already had almond flour in it, I decided that it would be very…
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Lemon Meringue Cake
This is a re-vamp of the lemon meringue cake from my first book. My mother-in-law requested this cake for her birthday last year, and I changed a few things around with great results. First, I swapped out the yellow cake base for white, and found that to be a big improvement.…
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Flaky Lemon White Chocolate Scones
I have a bag of lemons and blood oranges in my refrigerator. Maybe it’s the Minnesota in me, but March and April can drag here, and bright, tart citrus is a welcome addition to the snow covered yards. After years filled with brief moments of blissful warm followed by weeks of…