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Pastries

How to Make Self-Rising Flour

Follow these steps for making self-rising flour at home—just make sure that it’s not self-raising flour that you want first, since, surprise: they’re not quite the same thing.

Extra-Tender Blackberry Shortcake

The dough for these blackberry shortcakes contains hard-boiled egg yolks—an old trick for making a rich and tender biscuit.

Classic Blueberry Muffins

Chock-full of berries, our ultimate muffins have just the right amount of sweetness, plus a gentle tang and tender crumb thanks to sour cream.

Jam Muffins

A baked take on the doughnut-shop classic, these jelly-filled muffins make everyone giddy.

What’s the Story of the Morning Glory? This Muffin Has Tales to Tell

The 1970s muffin is an exercise in hippie breakfast maximalism.

Flaky, Buttery Biscuits

For this buttery biscuit recipe, you fold and stack the dough to create the flaky layers. 

Extra-Lemony Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

In this easy but extra-lemony lemon poppy seed muffins recipe, a trio of citrusy ingredients are combined: lemon zest, juice, and rich lemon curd.

Morning Glory Muffins

This glorious Morning Glory muffin recipe includes crushed pineapple, shredded carrot, shredded apple, toasted pecans, and coconut.

Banana Muffins With Brown Sugar Streusel

The classic banana muffin recipe gets a boost from several supporting ingredients in this rendition of the bakery favorite.

Old-Fashioned Muffins With Variations

This classic muffin recipe provides instructions for making many quick bread variations, including blueberry muffins, pecan muffins, bacon muffins, and more.

The Diner Trick That Taught Me to Love Day-Old Biscuits

Learn how to reheat biscuits so that they taste even better the next day.

Sweet Corn Buttermilk Biscuits

I don’t know how else to say it—I think these sweet corn biscuits are perfect.

Brown Sugar Buttermilk Biscuits

The finishing touch to these buttermilk biscuits is a sticky and satisfying brown sugar butter.

Sicilian Cannoli

This cannoli recipe has the chocolate, pistachios, and candied orange peel mixed right into the creamy filling so you get optimal flavor in every bite.

Classic Cannoncini

These Italian cannoncini are filled with a simple Chantilly cream, but some bakeries pipe in a rich custard instead.

Easy No-Cook Pastry Cream

This easy no-cook pastry cream requires no hand-whisking or tempering, and the ingredients don’t even have to come to room temperature.

Puff Puff

As the name suggests, West Africa’s most popular form of fried dough is essentially a delectable fried pillow of airy dough.