It's About Damn Thyme Crackers
Speaking of sharing recipes, I baked today! What did I make? Super easy crackers. Since I haven’t posted anything lately, I decided to call these masterpieces “It’s About Damn Thyme Crackers.”
Read MoreUtah's Famous Funeral Potatoes (Funeral Not Included)
This post may be a bit controversial due to the fact that I’m not sure if this even counts as baking, also, nobody has died. Can you call a potato recipe funeral potatoes without a funeral? All of this remains to be seen. Regardless, if you’re in the mood for something cheesy, creamy, crunchy, savory, and delicious, try this recipe for Utah’s Famous Funeral Potatoes (sans funeral). They’re the perfect comfort food.
Read MorePizza! Pizza! Dough!
Last Christmas, I was given what every amateur baker wants, more baking equipment–in other words, a pizza stone. Since receiving this wonderful gift, I’ve tried perfecting pizza dough. I’ve tackled Tucci, I’ve gone full Giada, I’ve even relished Roberta’s, but so far, the best pizza dough I’ve ever made is Nancy Silverton’s of Pizzeria Mozz fame.
Read MoreCoconut Cake
What is it about spring that makes me crave all things coconut? Overthinking it probably isn’t the way to answer that question. The way to answer that question is to bake a coconut cake! Enough chit chat, let’s get after it.
Read MoreChocolate Chip Cookie Madness
It’s March, which means it’s time for some fun competition. Instead of heading to the basketball court, the Daybake Baking Club created a cookie competition, a chocolate chip cookie competition to be exact. There were fourteen entries and three rounds of tasting. In other words, there were so many cookies!
Read MoreLunch Lady Peanut Butter Bars
If you’re a certain age and grew up in Utah, you’re likely to have had the opportunity to indulge in one of the best school lunch treats of all time: the Lunch Lady Peanut Butter Bar! There are a lot of peanut butter bar recipes out there, but I assure you, this one was received from a former legitimate lunch lady. If you love peanut butter as much as I do, you’re going to love it!
Read MoreWhen Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemon Curd
While I know this isn’t strictly baking, you can use lemon curd in lots of things, so I figured, it counts. Plus, making your own tastes so much better than the store bought versions, as you likely already know.
Read MoreKyle's Cinnamon Rolls
My friend Kyle is known for his infamous cinnamon rolls. They’re sweet, buttery, cinnamony, comforting, and have some secret ingredients, kind of like Kyle himself. After months of date-arranging, Kyle finally came over and made them with me and they were so delicious, I thought I’d share how to make them with you! So, without taking more time…let’s make some!
Read MoreLexi's Valentine Cookie
The Daybakers had a blast getting together to learn to decorate Valentine’s Day Cookies from Lexi Hicks. Not only were the cookies adorable, but they tasted amazing, too. Lexi kindly shared her recipe. Check it out!
Read MoreThe Easiest Chocolate Cake You'll Ever Bake!
As National Chocolate Cake Day will soon be upon us, I thought I’d celebrate by baking the easiest chocolate cake of all time. This recipe was originally from Magnolia Bakery, then adapted by Deb Pearlman of Smitten Kitchen fame, then adapted by me, of no fame at all.
How To Create Your Own Sourdough Starter
A lot of our Daybake Baking Club members have mentioned their interest in making their own sourdough starters, but along with that interest, they’ve expressed a little fear and intimidation, which is why I’ve put together this handy-dandy guide to cultivating one. All it takes is a little patience and some TLC. If you follow the steps of each day, you should have a lively, active starter of your very own within a week! Here’s how to make one.
Read MoreButtery Pecan Cornbread
Cornbread is super easy to make from scratch. In fact, it takes just about as much effort to make it on your own as it does to go to the store, buy the box, add the water, and bake it. Plus, when you make it on your own, it turns out soft, sweet, and deliciously buttery. Give up the store-bought box and try this recipe below; you can thank me later.
Read MoreRustic Apple Galette
I’ve been making galettes for as long as I can remember. There are several reasons I love making galettes. First, they’re super easy and hard to mess up. Second, you can put just about any kind of fruit filling in them. Third, when you say that they’re rustic and French, people get tricked into thinking that you’re super bougie and fancy.
Read MoreDaybake Cookie Exchange 2021
Our first Daybake Baking Club event was a sweet success (and by sweet, I mean…there were lots and lots of delicious cookies)! I want to thank all of the club members who attended and brought cookies to exchange. It really was wonderful to finally put real faces with names. Here’s to more events in the future! And here’s to having Happy Holidays.
Read MoreHoliday Charcuterie House
I love a gingerbread house as much as the next lady, but do you know what I love even more? A cheese and charcuterie plate. Instead of making a gingerbread house this year, I decided it might be a fun baking experiment to bake my own crackers in the shape of a gingerbread house and decorate it with cheese, salami, nuts, olive, fruit, and veggies instead of candies and icing. I made my crackers with my favorite pasta flavor: cacio e pepe, but you can skip the cheese, if you’re not into it and just make a basic cracker. They’re easier than you think to bake, so if you’re into savory bakes, this is definitely a fun one.
Read MoreVery Merry Berry Pie
One of our fabulous DAYBAKE club members, Merilee, invited a few of us over for our very first BAKING DATE. Not only is Merilee one of the best neighbors in Daybreak, she’s also a successful business owner, a brilliant book club member, a loving mom and wife, an incredible friend, and a wonderful baker who has lots of pro-tips about baking pie. For our DAYBAKE BAKING DATE, Merliee showed club members Christy, Karyn, Spencer, and me how to make a delicious berry pie.
Read MoreChocolate Babka for Hanukkah
One of the best things about baking is that you get to explore different recipes from different cultures. This week I tried baking a babka, because it’s Hanukkah. Some would argue that babka is a bread, which others would argue that it’s a cake. I would argue that it doesn’t matter what it is, because it’s delicious.
Read MoreTwo for Tea Biscuits
Once upon a long, long time ago, there was a girl (that girl was me) who moved to England and fell in love—not in love with a person or the country itself, rather she fell in love with a biscuit. This biscuit was crumbly and sweet, but not too sweet, and sometimes it would come dipped in dark or milk chocolate.
Read MoreEasy Artisanal Bread
You know those super rustic, delicious loaves of bread you see at the fancier grocery stores? The ones you think you have to have a lifetime of baking skills and an ancient, French grand-mère who passed her bread secrets to you in order to successfully bake? Guess what? Those loaves of bread aren’t as hard to make as you think they are. Granted, some of them have a lot of tricky steps and require hours and hours of proofing, but I’m about to share a super-easy way to make artisanal bread at home.
Read MoreBasic Brownies
Are brownies a cookie or a cake? Or are they in a category of their very own? I like to think the latter is true; brownies belong in a category all by themselves. I absolutely adore a delicious, fudgy brownie. When you’re craving something rich and chocolatey, there’s nothing better.
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