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Cozy Baking
From-scratch baking recipes for slow mornings, after-school treats, holidays, and everyday moments at home. Find easy breads, muffins, cookies, cakes, pies, and simple desserts made for sharing around the table.


Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Nutty brown butter takes a classic chocolate chip cookie to the next level. These easy cookies have crisp golden edges, soft chewy centers, and plenty of melty chocolate.

Alexis Krilla
Aug 274 min read


Soft and Chewy Monster Cookie Recipe
Learn how to make soft and chewy monster cookies packed with peanut butter, oats, chocolate chips, and M&M's. An easy family favorite cookie recipe.

Alexis Krilla
Jul 25 min read


Fresh Strawberry Cake Recipe | Bakery-Quality Homemade Cake
Made with fresh strawberries and finished with creamy strawberry frosting, this bakery-quality strawberry cake is soft, tender, and perfect for birthdays, summer celebrations, or simply gathering around the table. It's the cake that first came to life during a week at the lake, and has been a family favorite ever since.

Alexis Krilla
Apr 215 min read


Blackberry Lavender Baked Doughnuts
Recipe 7 of 100 I’ve never really thought of myself as a baker. But lately I’ve been in a “why not?” phase, trying things I’ve always assumed were more complicated than they actually are. When we moved to Franklin, I even started taking drum lessons. I played classical violin through college, but had always thought it would be fun to learn something completely different. It felt like part of the same shift this year...stretching myself a little and having fun doing it. This r

Alexis Krilla
Mar 182 min read


My Everyday Homemade Sandwich Bread
The soft, golden loaf I finally got right after a few very imperfect tries. Recipe 4 of The 100 Recipe Project There is something especially satisfying about baking homemade sandwich bread from scratch. It feels simple and old-fashioned in the best way. Flour on the counter, dough rising beneath a kitchen towel, and the smell of fresh bread filling the house. Getting there, however, took a few tries. One loaf over proofed. Another came out dense and so bland that my son immed

Alexis Krilla
Mar 175 min read


One Bowl Banana Bread
Recipe 1 of The 100 Recipe Project Some recipes become household staples almost immediately. This banana bread started as a recipe I found on Tasty, but after making it a few times I began adjusting it to better match what we like at home. Our version uses five bananas instead of three, which makes the loaf extra moist and deeply banana-flavored. It also happens to be incredibly simple. One bowl, very little cleanup, and ingredients I usually already have in the kitchen make

Alexis Krilla
Mar 42 min read
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