Browned-Butter Pumpkin Maple Cookies are soft and chewy with crisp edges, nutty browned butter, real pumpkin, maple sugar, and warm fall spices. A cozy pumpkin cookie packed with maple flavor without the excess moisture of maple syrup.
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Mango Sticky Rice Mousse Cake
A tropical twist on classic Thai mango sticky rice, this layered mousse cake combines tender coconut cake, a sweet-and-salty coconut milk soak, crispy coconut-rice crunch, luscious fresh mango mousse, and a bright mango-lime glaze. It takes a little time to make, but the combination of creamy, crunchy, sweet, salty, and…
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Apple Cider Donut Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Buttercream Frosting
Apple cider donut cupcakes packed with warm fall spices, fresh Honeycrisp apples, and concentrated apple cider, then topped with a fluffy salted caramel buttercream. All the flavors of a classic apple cider donut in a soft, moist cupcake!
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Banana Brûlée Biscoff Pie
Taylor’s Elevated Take on Banoffee Pie Intermediate Baker One bite and you’ll wonder why Banoffee pies aren’t always made this way. This version starts with a baked Biscoff cookie crust rather than graham crackers or digestives, which adds warm cinnamon-ginger spice and a gentle crunch that plays perfectly with anything…
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Vanilla White Cake
With Cupcake Instructions To be fair, I discovered this recipe when developing my Funfetti cake recipe. Just like the Funfetti cake, white cake was on my no bake list for orders since I was so particular about the texture. How do boxed cake mixes nail it every time, but from…
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Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes
Inspired by the Good Humor Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Bars This is one of my favorite cupcake recipes. The cake is filled with strawberry flavor (not from extracts) and the topping tastes just like the outside of the Good Humor bars. Unfortunately due to a particular ingredient in the topping,…
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Funfetti Cake
With Cupcake Instructions I have a slight obsession with the Pillsbury boxed Funfetti cake. It’s perfectly moist and fluffy with a good crumb. I’ve tried no less than a half dozen from scratch Funfetti cake recipes on the internet and all of them have come up short for me. I…
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Cinnamon Apple Toffee Oatmeal Cookies
Autumn means lots of apples, spice, and caramel flavors for me. These cookies capture all of that with some texture from oats. I’d like to think of these as breakfast cookies, starting your day off with a little treat. In the notes at the bottom of the page, I provide…
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Pandan Sourdough Bread
I like to mix it up with my sourdough flavors, and living in the DC-Maryland-Virginia region has introduced me to so many cuisines (as well as my travels). One of my favorite flavor profiles comes from Southeast Asia: pandan. This is a leaf that, once processed, produces a vanilla, coconut,…
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Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
This is a simple vanilla buttercream recipe that yields a fluffy, yet creamy, white frosting. This recipe is perfect for cupcakes or frosting a cake when you’re not too concerned with an ultra smooth appearance. While a smooth frosting can be visually attractive, I find it a bit too dense.…