Comment sections of my videos and photos of my pie crust have historically gone NUTS over my butter chunks claiming this crust will “fall apart” or “completely melt” in the oven 🤦🏻‍♀️

The actual result?

THE FLAKIEST CRUST 🤩

Here are my best tips for getting a perfect and flaky crust every time:

1️⃣ When you’re making your pie crust, keep the big chunks of butter. They = flaky flakes!!
2️⃣ Roll from the center out rather than over top the whole thing.
3️⃣ Don’t be afraid to touch your pie crust to fix the sides, fill in holes, or press some of it together to keep it even. If it gets too warm from your fingers, see next step.
4️⃣ The refrigerator is your friend! Stop and chill any time you’re worried it’s too warm.
5️⃣ I always re-chill a pie crust once it’s in the pie plate for at LEAST 15-20 minutes before baking to prevent shrinking and encourage flakes.
6️⃣ Flip your pastry mat into the pie plate rather than try to roll the pie crust onto a rolling pin or lift it off.
7️⃣ Take your time! There is no need to rush the process.
8️⃣ Know with practice, you will get more comfortable with the process. You can do this! 🙌🏼

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Once you reverse cream once, you might never go back…

Ok, but real talk, reverse creaming is NOT something you should just do willy nilly. It’s not appropriate for every cake batter, but if you struggle with layer cakes, I encourage you to start here.

⭐️ Reverse creaming is the method you didn’t know you needed:
➡️ Instead of the usual butter-sugar creaming routine, reverse creaming has you mix your dry ingredients (yes, even the sugar!) with softened butter first, then bring in the wet ingredients (eggs, milk, extract) later. The result? A cake that’s tender, velvety, and— MY FAV— nice and level.

⭐️ But… Why bother?
1️⃣ A tender cake: the butter coats the flour before liquids come into play, which means less gluten development (read: softer cake).
2️⃣ Flatter layers: say goodbye to cake domes that need to be leveled! Reverse creaming keeps things nice and even, which means your layers are already perfect for stacking and frosting.
3️⃣ Moist and velvety texture: since fat is evenly distributed, you end up with a cake that’s soft and rich without being dry.

⭐️ When you’ll see it used most often:
➡️ This method shines in cakes where texture really matters. Think layer cakes, pound cakes, and cupcakes that need a delicate, even crumb. If you’re after bakery-level softness without bakery-level effort, reverse creaming is your new best friend.

This is the method I use in my basic white cake (what you see here) which is the cake base I use for more than a dozen cake recipes on my site. It’s reliable, delicious, and I’m never NOT using it to create new cake recipes for you 🫶

In fact, here’s a 5-star review from reader Katja:
“Love this white cake recipe. I’ve made some before with mediocre results and this one was just so wonderfully moist and yummy. The reverse creaming method was so simple and made quick work of making the batter! It was ideal for coloring cake layers with gel food coloring and I’ll definitely use this recipe again.”

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If you’ve been around here any length of time, you know I pride myself on turning yeast-phobes into yeast pros with easy breads like my easy yeast rolls and white sandwich bread 🍞

If you can believe it, things are about to get even easier, especially for those of you who hear “yeast bread” and get slightly panicky over having to knead 🫠😵‍💫

Because, yes, “no knead bread” is exactly what it sounds like: a yeasted bread dough that can come together without ever needing to be kneaded (what?) 🤯

This month’s installment of my Bread Of The Month series is for beginners and bread masters alike! I can’t wait for you to try it #fafbreadofthemonth

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I switched back to hot coffee yesterday morning and today I’m wearing a sweatshirt, so it’s basically fall again ☕️🍎🍃

One thing I love about apple season is making these apple cinnamon rolls 🤤

They take the classic base you love and give it an orchard-inspired twist with layers of thinly sliced apples baked right into the gooey cinnamon-sugar filling. Soft, fluffy, and topped with tangy cream cheese frosting, they’re the perfect mix of cozy flavors and fresh apple sweetness 🥰

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These fall spiced chocolate chip cookies start with the same chewy base as my beloved (and viral!) classic chocolate chip cookies, but add cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves for all the autumn vibes.

Finish them off with an optional spiced glaze for the ultimate seasonal treat 🍁🍃🍂

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The best chocolate chip cookie recipe? That’s my specialty 😎

So many people think the recipe on the back of the bag is the end all be all of chocolate chip cookie recipes (it’s not) 🙂‍↔️

Or that chocolate chip cookies are boring (they SO aren’t) 🙂‍↔️

But when you use the right recipe, chocolate chip cookies can actually be the most interesting cookie in the spread 🍪

Check out these reviews from this summer:

“This is my new go to recipe. I’ve literally been making these cookies so much that I’ve started to double the recipe. My family loves them.” — Crystal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Always using this recipe my family loves this one!” — Zoe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The only chocolate chip cookie recipe I use! Delicious every time!!” — Melissa ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

These cookies have crisp edges, gooey centers, and convert Toll House diehards left and right 🍪 So what are you waiting for? 😏

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Consider this your new favorite cake recipe! 🎂

It’s been on my site since 2017, and it always gets RAVE reviews just like this one from June:

“I’ve been wanting to make this cake for awhile and I’m so glad I finally did! We all loved it. I’m not even a frosting person and it was the best frosting I’ve tasted. Great idea to use freeze dried strawberries! Highly recommend.” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is one of the first recipes I ever made that went crazy bananas— it has 200+ reviews with an average 4.9 star rating. So what are you waiting for?? 🍓

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These bakery-style soft and chewy peanut butter cookies filled with puddles of melted, gooey marshmallow fluff have childhood nostalgia in every bite 🤤

➡️ Here’s why you’ll love these cookies:
• start with my best peanut butter cookie base
• soft and chewy cookie
• a puddle of gooey marshmallow through the whole cookie
• messy in the best way
• if you eat one warm from the oven (or warmed after cooling), they’re even better

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Today marks a year I’ve lived without my dad 💔

I don’t love the phrase “I can’t believe __” especially when referring to a length of time. As someone who came by a science brain honestly (thanks, dad), rationally, I know there are 24 hours in a day, and they pass whether we like it or not ⏰

How I CAN finish that sentence is with “I can’t believe I’ve been forced to live through 365 days without my dad,” as in “this is the first time I’ve done this and I had no idea how people did it and didn’t think I could do it but here I am.”

This last year was not what I expected at all. I had days I thought would be hard but weren’t. I had days where my grief seemed totally under-the-surface and then burst through like a geyser in the middle of an episode of Heated Rivalry (true story) 😭

What I ESPECIALLY didn’t expect was that grief actually has favorite foods. In fact, the day I took this video, I was genuinely, boringly fine until I took one bite of this cookie.

It completely undid me immediately. One taste and I was right back in college and he’d just handed me a batch wrapped in wax paper and masking tape (his signature move) at our mid-week dinner date.

That’s the recipe I’m sharing today. It’s the one he taught me, the one I can’t make without hearing his voice, and the one that ambushed me the hardest this year.

I don’t want to turn my grief into content— that’s not what this is. But I DO want to share this recipe with you, because it’s an amazing one, and because some days the best way I know how to keep him around is to make sure other people are eating what he taught me to make 🤍

Because isn’t that why we pass down recipes? To keep our ancestors close to us? I never met my great grandmother, but somehow this recipe that originated with her connects us in a way we can never lose. Because as long as we have an oven, we can keep them from ever really being gone 🥰

Now, about these cookies: buttery, flaky pie crust surrounds a rich, spiced honey walnut filling in these traditional Italian cookies. MAKE THEM.

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I originally developed this recipe for Kraft back in 2016, and it has since been a staple in my summers ever since ☀️

These bars are made with two layers of graham cookie bars that are filled with a thick and gooey layer of marshmallow creme and creamy milk chocolate chips.

They’re soft, chewy, and full of all the gooeyness you love from traditional s’mores, so watch out, because you might just find yourself baking s’mores bars in the middle of winter…

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Consider this your new favorite bread (it’s one of mine!!) 🍞

When I tell you this is one of the best recipes that exists on my site, out of over 650+ total recipes, I’m not kidding 🙂‍↔️

Aromatic and flavorful pesto, oily (but not in a bad way) pieces of soft and fluffy bread, and a loaf you can turn into a snack or a meal or a side dish… No rules! ❌

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If there’s one thing I’ve learned from more than a decade of creating recipes, it’s that things don’t always have to be “by the book” to be delicious.

When I first thought to myself “I wonder if goat cheese would work well in cheesecake 🤔” I wondered what else I could pair with it to round out the whole flavor profile, and as soon as I landed on a shortbread walnut crust and a sticky and gooey honey walnut topping, my cheesecake life was forever changed 🤩

This is one of my favorite cheesecake creations EVER, and I’ve made a lottttt of cheesecakes in my time 😅

Goat cheese lovers, this one is for you. You’re going to looooove it 🍯

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Come for the recipes, stay for the cookie-loving community 🍪

Around here, you can expect recipes tested by a classically trained scientist, constant reminders that a kitchen scale is the most important tool in your kitchen, and a community of tens of thousands of Toll House converts who know this particular chocolate chip cookie is worth the chill time 🥶

Whether you’re here for recipes that work or just along for the ride, I’m so glad you’re here 🥰

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Just over here making the brownies you all love so much a little bit fancier with some walnuts and creamy chocolate buttercream 😋

Nuts not your thing? Leave ‘em out! Just know that the base brownie recipe is one that turns boxed brownie lovers into scratch enthusiasts and the (optional) nuts and frosting on top just seal the deal.

Perfect for when you want your brownies to have a little extra something ✨

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I am not shameful for one moment that I’ll take pumpkin in my coffee right this very moment 🙂‍↔️

BUT I also recognize that it’s not even mid-August yet so I sound a little off my rocker 🤪

The solution to that is obviously my homemade pumpkin ice cream, which is prettyyyyy highly rated in Google when you search for it 🍨

This ice cream is made with canned pumpkin and cozy spices and goes perfectly with a sprinkle of graham cracker crumbs on top 😋

And dare I say it’s the perfect dessert bridge between summer and fall ☀️🍁🎃

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Too good to gate keep!! ☕️

➡️ All you need is:
• a cup of heavy cream
• a tablespoon of sugar
• a teaspoon of espresso powder

Whip to medium stuff peaks and thank me later 😏

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You definitely didn’t expect to find your new favorite baking account, but here I am 🤗

Not only am I known for teaching people on the internet how to successfully bake from scratch with YEAST, all of my cinnamon roll recipes are written as small batch which means you get SIX fluffy rolls with the option to easily double it for 12 (important notes included).

I’ve heard over and over that it not only makes yeast rolls approachable and easy to learn on, but it’s a nice size batch if you’re not looking to bake for the whole street 😝

These soft and fluffy s’mores cinnamon rolls start with a graham cracker-infused dough, are filled with cinnamon and chocolate, and finished with an easy marshmallow meringue topping. You’re going to want to save this one 🤤

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Trust me when I say you’ll want to save this one 📌

The next time you find yourself wishing that pumpkin cream cold foam was on the menu, remember that you can actually make it at home 🏡

As a food blogger who makes real recipes for real people, let me be the first to give you permission to crack open that can of pumpkin I know is in your pantry just waiting for its moment to shine ✨

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“I had some doubts that this was as good as advertised. I am an experienced baker and the recipe ratios didn’t sell me, but I followed directions down to the gram and they were the best chocolate chip cookies I have ever made. Don’t make substitutions and follow the directions – you won’t be sorry.”

Actual review from 7/28/2026 with a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating!

So listen, I have no problem giving credit where credit is due. Toll House set us up with a solid foundation. Truly! 🥲

But the Fresh April Flours version that I’ve perfected over the last decade+ has gotten reviews like this one over and over again.

What’s different, you ask? Melted butter instead of softened, one less egg white, more brown sugar, a little cornstarch, and my signature combo of milk + semi-sweet chocolate chips make for a cookie that will win you over in a heartbeat, I guarantee it! 🙌

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