Baking

Don’t mess with lush chocolate cake, fudgy frosting, and crunchy toasted pecans. (Who would want to?)

A classic lemon-blueberry bread is a thing of beauty. Plush lemon cake studded with jammy, perfectly suspended blueberries gets coated in a glossy, dripping glaze.

Studded with fresh strawberries and sprinkled with crunchy sugar, these tender-crumbed strawberry muffins are the best bake to wake up to.

With fewer than 10 ingredients and bright flavor, there’s never a wrong time to make this crowd-pleasing dessert.

A buttery lattice dough enrobes mushrooms, herbs, and speck.

This flourless chocolate cake is rich and densely chocolaty. It’s just the kind of low-effort, high-reward recipe we love.

This simple and easy chocolate frosting is deeply chocolaty, fluffy, and swooshable.

Buttermilk makes the chocolate cupcakes moist and fluffy, and using oil instead of butter means they keep well.

With a handful of ingredients and easy cleanup, this brunch favorite only looks like you spent all morning at the stove.

If a coffee cake and a focaccia had a baby, it would look something like this Moravian sugar cake.

This rhubarb cake recipe keeps things simple and scatters thinly sliced fresh rhubarb on top of the cake

Putting mayonnaise in the recipe gives you fluffy, craggy, flavorful biscuits that go from bowl to outstretched hand in about 20 minutes.

Sicilian pizza is an Italian-style pizza recipe identified by its thick, chewy, bready crust under a layer of toppings like tomato sauce.

Caramel rolls are soft, plush, buttery, cinnamon-y, and drenched in caramel. Here’s my rendition of the Midwestern specialty.

Cowboy cookies are like oatmeal ones, but packed with hearty mix-ins like coconut, pecans, and chocolate.

The official pastry of Wisconsin has Danish roots. Our homemade kringle recipe is filled with almond paste and cherry jam.