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Tips and Techniques

Cookie decorating for all

Tips and techniques for every skill level

By Brook Lewis
Tips and Techniques

Gifts for your favorite bread novice

The essential tools and ingredients anyone needs for making great bread.

By PJ Hamel

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Our favorite baking books of 2021

From sweet to savory and everything in between, these are our top cookbook picks of the year.

By Posie Brien

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I'm a pro baker, and I think blondies are better than brownies.

There's a reason I've dedicated my whole pastry career to them.

By Auzerais Bellamy

Recipes

These espresso-spiked alfajores are a new cookie classic

Introducing our 2021 Holiday Cookie Collection.

By David Tamarkin

Tips and Techniques

How to make natural food coloring

Turn to the produce aisle to make gorgeous pinks, blues, purples, and more.

By Cheryl Day

Tips and Techniques

How to make a cornet and never go without decorated cookies

All you need is a piece of parchment paper.

By Rossi Anastopoulo

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These espresso-spiked alfajores are a new cookie classic

Holding a Turkey Dinner Pie, sliced in half to show a cross-section of filling

The best Thanksgiving pie is the one made out of leftovers

English muffins, toasted and split with butter and jam

Navigating the nooks and crannies

Kaiserschmarrn on a serving plate, fruit compote on the side.

Emperor’s Pancake: Holiday breakfast with a backstory

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Graphic showing some of our favorite bread making tools

Gifts for your favorite bread novice

How to make natural food coloring

How to make a cornet and never go without decorated cookies

The Essential Cookie Companion book and unbaked drop cookies on a baking sheet.

5 surprising tips from our new Essential Cookie Companion

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I'm a pro baker, and I think blondies are better than brownies.

Our favorite baking books of 2021

Tamales being served

Holiday tamal season starts with Thanksgiving leftovers

Rosemary Lemon Brown Butter Muffins

How 4 talented bakers took a stand for social justice this year

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