Breads

Breads
Plain Bagels Recipe

Homemade Bagels

No more excuses about how there’s a dearth of decent bagels in your neighborhood. Nope. Not when you can make these.

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  • 3 H
  • 3 H, 50 M
  • 18
Muffin Biscuits

Alabama Muffin Biscuits

These curiously named, easy peasy, shamelessly simple hybrid hussies may make you swear off roll-out biscuits for good.

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  • 10 M
  • 45 M
  • 32
Cornbread

Corn Bread

An easy, foolproof, ever so slightly sweet corn bread that comes together as quickly as it disappears. Just watch it.

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  • 20 M
  • 45 M
  • 26
Hamburger Buns

Beautiful Burger Buns

Beautiful burger buns. Were ever three words joined in such harmonious sequence? And can we add buxom and buttery?

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  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 45 M
  • 31
Chocolate Bourbon Banana Bread

Mommom’s Chocolate Bourbon-Spiked Banana Bread

No matter what its title, this little life-changer of a recipe isn’t quite Mommom’s, er, your grandma’s banana bread. It’s better.

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  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 18
Bacon and Cheese Scones

Bite-Size Bacon and Cheese Scones

Cute as a button, and not much bigger, these buttery, bacony scones are the most diminutive and darned good baked thing we’ve had in recent memory.

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  • 30 M
  • 45 M
  • 31
Semolina Pizza Dough

Semolina Pizza Dough

A little semolina goes a looooong way in lending this dough an easy-to-knead workability and a surprisingly tooth-sinking texture. (You heard us. Tooth-sinking.)

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  • 20 M
  • 2 H, 15 M
  • 1
Buttermilk Drop Biscuits

Buttermilk Drop Biscuits

“The best biscuits I’ve ever had!” is what we’re hearing from many, many, many folks who just can’t help but exclaim when they try these buttery biscuits.

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  • 15 M
  • 35 M
  • 26
Feather Light Rolls

Feather Light Rolls

These exceptionally airy pull-apart rolls bake up crisp on the outside, tender on the inside, and, yes, light as a feather through and through.

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  • 20 M
  • 2 H
  • 9
Ciabatta

Ciabatta

Every once in a while, along comes a loaf of bread that’s so rustic, so toothsome, so memorable it ruins every other bread experience. Here’s that loaf.

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  • 30 M
  • 4 H, 20 M
  • 58
Banana Bread French Toast

Banana Bread French Toast

That’s right. A behemoth stack of French toast made from–believe it–thick-sliced banana bread. Sort of makes you believe in Santa, too, doesn’t it?

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  • 20 M
  • 20 M
  • 8
Croissants

Flaky Croissants

You’ll be glad you didn’t just run to the corner bakery when there’s an obscenely buttery, flaky, made-from-scratch croissant before you. Trust us.

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  • 45 M
  • 3 H
  • 55
Chocolate Babka

Chocolate Babka

Babkalicious! Best babka ever! Holy Cow! Holy Babka! Those are just some of the responses we’re hearing ’bout this indulgent loaf of buttery, chocolatey, Jewishy goodness.

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  • 1 H
  • 4 H
  • 20
Sugar Pumpkins

Pumpkin Quick Bread

Home cook and storybook savant T. Susan Chang explains how she eventually came around to baking this quick, fragrant, subtly sweet loaf from a gourd of fairy tale proportions.

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  • 20 M
  • 2 H
  • 16
Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

Cinnamon Rolls

Time to change into your baggiest sweatpants. You know, the ones with the no-longer-elastic waistband. Call us realists.

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  • 45 M
  • 3 H, 15 M
  • 19
Buttermilk Sandwich Loaf

Buttermilk Sandwich Loaf

A fast-rising home-baked white sandwich loaf that tastes–dare we say it?–better than mom’s. Way better. And just wait ’til you toast it.

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  • 15 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 17
Easiest Cream Biscuits

Rachel’s Very Beginner’s Cream Biscuits

Scandalously simple. Ethereally airy. Magical. That’s but a sampling of what folks are saying about these two-ingredient, Southern-style cream biscuits.

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  • 15 M
  • 30 M
  • 54
Cinnamon Toast

Cinnamon Toast with Butter and Honey

Everything you remember from childhood–crisped (but not burnt) at the edges, slathered with butter, sprinkled with cinnamon, and, if you were fortunate, drizzled with honey.

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  • 3 M
  • 3 M
  • 3
Brioche

Brioche

Sure, you could traipse to a bakery and buy brioche rather than make them yourself. But where’s the satisfaction in that?

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  • 25 M
  • 4 H, 30 M
  • 8
The Taste of Country Cooking

Spoon Bread

From cooking icon Edna Lewis comes an airy spoon bread which whispers, in that inimitable Southern way, to be included on tables everywhere. Even in the North.

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  • 10 M
  • 45 M
  • 12
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