Lemon & Brown Sugar Crinkle Cookies
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Lemon & Brown Sugar Crinkle Cookies

A low-effort-high-reward recipe. The addition of brown sugar makes these cookies a bit richer & promotes some extra browning on the bottom — and the recipe is mad simple! Cream the butter, zest and sugar, add the wet ingredients, the dry ingredients, and your dough is ready. Perfect for whipping up a quick treat for that party tonight that you forgot about.

9:30 Scones
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9:30 Scones

Makes 8 scones1 hour —Easy — This scone got it’s name because one night at around 9:30pm, Caroline & I were on the couch watching a movie, and she told me she was in the mood for scones. I got up and pulled up my traditional scone recipe but made some tweaks so I could…

Spiced Orange Cardamom Buns (Kardemummabullar)
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Spiced Orange Cardamom Buns (Kardemummabullar)

Makes 12 buns3 hours —Intermediate — A zesty twist on a Swedish classic. “Kardemummabullar” is essentially big Swedish word that loosely translates to “cardamom buns.” They’re fairly common in Sweden, probably similarly so to our cinnamon rolls here in America. We’re taking a few detours from tradition here though. The first is in the dough….

Citrus Olive Oil Cake
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Citrus Olive Oil Cake

Serves 8-1090 minutes —Intermediate — If you’ve never had olive oil cake, think of a lighter, crumblier pound cake, but still incredibly moist, and with crispy edges. The reason we didn’t call this an “Orange” Olive Oil Cake is simple — because it doesn’t have to be! We’ve also made this recipe with lemon and…

Better Banana Bread
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Better Banana Bread

Serves 8-101 hour —Easy — Banana bread is kind of an underdog. You don’t really think about it until you have some old bananas lying around, and because food waste sucks, we mush it into a batter and make cake out of it. The wonderful part about this recipe is that it’s easy — and…

Oatmeal Creme Pies
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Oatmeal Creme Pies

Makes 7-8 sandwich cookies90 minutes —Intermediate — I grew up on Little Debbie — nothing beats a Zebra Cake (not that I’d really know, I haven’t had one in probably ten years). But out of the entire catalogue of gas station impulse-buys, (yes even honey buns) there’s one that reigns supreme. The Oatmeal Creme Pie….

A Quite Good Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie
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A Quite Good Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie

Makes 10-14 cookies90 minutes —Intermediate — The best chocolate chip cookie recipes kind of have to be a little bit of everything; memorable, memorize-able, achievable, approachable, delicious, and perhaps most important: simple. For decades, my mother made cookies every other weekend in an attempt to satisfy each and every one of these personality traits. She…