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Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

Our favorite recipe for strawberry-rhubarb pie gets a crumb topping with cinnamon and brown sugar and a flaky, buttery bottom crust for the best of both worlds.

Angel Food Cake

The best angel food cake you’ve ever tasted is fewer than 10 ingredients away.

How to Safely Decorate Cakes With Flowers

Not all blossoms are safe to decorate with, so check out these tips before you start assembling your next layer cake.

Give Your Hot Cross Buns the Muffin Treatment

This easy version pays homage to the classic, but there’s no yeast required.

Welcome to the Age of Carefree Floral Cakes

The free-flowing, foraged cakes of today are not your grandma’s rose-lined layers.

Easy Hot Cross Muffins

These fruit-laden muffins smell exactly like hot cross buns as they bake and taste just as satisfying, but with a fraction of the effort.

Cocoa and Chicory Sheet Cake

This is a wonderfully forgiving recipe to scale up and down—you can halve it to make a dozen cupcakes, or double it to make four 6-inch loaves.

This Quick Dough Gives You Infinite Pastry Possibilities

Whipping up a 4-ingredient choux is the first step to cheesy gougères, ice-cream-filled profiteroles, and towering croquembouches.

Easy Profiteroles With Maple Caramel Sauce

Choux puffs filled with store-bought ice cream are drizzled with a luxurious maple cream sauce, inspired by the iconic profiteroles at L’Express in Montreal.

Cheddar and Herb Gougères

The best part about gougères is that the dough freezes incredibly well, so you can have these ready to bake for a tasty happy hour snack whenever you want.

Tres Leches Cake

This layered tres leches cake is sandwiched with strawberries, mangoes, and whipped cream for a knockout version of the popular dessert everyone will love.

Lemon Cornmeal Scones

Think Italian-style lemon cornmeal cake, served in scone form. These lemon cornmeal scones are great to have in your freezer at all times.

Ham, Cheese, and Leek Scones

Leeks slowly cooked down into a silky consistency become sweet and nuanced in these savory scones.

Strawberry, Ginger, and Poppy Seed Scones

These pretty pink-and-white scones are dotted with blue or black poppy seeds.

Daffodil Cake

This cloud-like cake has all the joy of angel food—but it uses the yolks too.

Out of Vanilla Extract? Try One of These Substitutes

Give your bakes a boost with these flavorful substitutes for vanilla extract.

Why Does Overmixing Matter in Baking, and How Do I Avoid It?

When you're in the middle of making cookie dough or cake batter, what does “be careful not to overmix” really mean?

Double Chocolate Chunk Muffins

If you’re looking for the ultimate chocolate chip muffin recipe, this version—with a cocoa-enriched batter and big chocolate chunks—is absolutely perfect.
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