Makes ~16 cookies45 minutes —Easy — The oatmeal raisin cookie is a true underdog; always outshined by the popular chocolate chip, but no less tasty. This recipe uses the same base as my Oatmeal Creme Pies, with all the same wonderful spices that make this cookie taste like Fall.
A low-effort-high-reward recipe. The addition of brown sugar makes these cookies a bit richer & promotes some extra browning on the bottom — and the recipe is mad simple! Cream the butter, zest and sugar, add the wet ingredients, the dry ingredients, and your dough is ready. Perfect for whipping up a quick treat for that party tonight that you forgot about.
Makes 8 scones1 hour —Easy — This scone got it’s name because one night at around 9:30pm, Caroline & I were on the couch watching a movie, and she told me she was in the mood for scones. I got up and pulled up my traditional scone recipe but made some tweaks so I could…
Makes 12 buns3 hours —Intermediate — A zesty twist on a Swedish classic. “Kardemummabullar” is essentially big Swedish word that loosely translates to “cardamom buns.” They’re fairly common in Sweden, probably similarly so to our cinnamon rolls here in America. We’re taking a few detours from tradition here though. The first is in the dough….
Serves 8-1090 minutes —Intermediate — If you’ve never had olive oil cake, think of a lighter, crumblier pound cake, but still incredibly moist, and with crispy edges. The reason we didn’t call this an “Orange” Olive Oil Cake is simple — because it doesn’t have to be! We’ve also made this recipe with lemon and…
Serves 8-101 hour —Easy — Banana bread is kind of an underdog. You don’t really think about it until you have some old bananas lying around, and because food waste sucks, we mush it into a batter and make cake out of it. The wonderful part about this recipe is that it’s easy — and…
Makes 7-8 sandwich cookies90 minutes —Intermediate — I grew up on Little Debbie — nothing beats a Zebra Cake (not that I’d really know, I haven’t had one in probably ten years). But out of the entire catalogue of gas station impulse-buys, (yes even honey buns) there’s one that reigns supreme. The Oatmeal Creme Pie….
Makes 10-14 cookies90 minutes —Intermediate — The best chocolate chip cookie recipes kind of have to be a little bit of everything; memorable, memorize-able, achievable, approachable, delicious, and perhaps most important: simple. For decades, my mother made cookies every other weekend in an attempt to satisfy each and every one of these personality traits. She…