Baking A Moment

Easy to Make

Whether you’re a novice in the kitchen or you’re just pressed for time, here is where you’ll find all my favorite easy to make recipes.

Top favorites include Easy Croissant Recipe, Easy Ciabatta Bread Recipe, and Easy Baguette Recipe.

Buckeye recipe, prepared and presented on a distressed wood surface.

Buckeye Recipe

I make these vanilla cut-out cookies every year, and they never disappoint! So easy to make, the dough is great to work with, and they absolutely, positively, DO NOT SPREAD when you bake them. Perfect for decorating with royal icing.

How to Bake (Easy! and Delicious!) Cutout Cookies with Neat Edges

Best Pecan Pie Recipe

Pecan Pie Recipe

Stuffed mushrooms cut in half to display the creamy garlic and herb cheese inside.

Stuffed Mushrooms

Brie baked in puff pastry, with a wedge cut out to display the filling.

Baked Brie in Puff Pastry

Best Royal Icing Recipe for Decorating

Royal Icing

Maple sage brown butter turkey on a platter with seasonal fruits surrounding it.

Maple and Sage Brown Butter Roasted Turkey

Vanilla extract in amber glass bottles with a red satin ribbon.

Homemade Vanilla Extract

Overhead image of pizzelle on a wire cooling rack with whole anise seeds and powdered sugar.

Pizzelle Recipe (Thin and Crisp)

Cranberry orange muffin displayed on a marble background with frozen cranberries.

Cranberry Orange Muffins

A freshly baked apple galette, served on a crumpled sheet of parchment.

Apple Galette

Square image of unbaked pie crust in a dark blue dish with a rolling pin in the background.

Homemade Pie Crust Recipe

White beans and greens in a bowl with sweet Italian sausage and ditalini pasta.

White Beans and Greens with Sausage

Tomato sauce being ladled from a large enameled cast iron Dutch oven.

Tomato Sauce

Chicken marsala served over mashed potatoes in a shallow ceramic bowl.

Chicken Marsala

Basic Scone Recipe: moist, buttery, and melt-in-your-mouth plain scones.

Basic Scone Recipe

Pumpkin soup with sage and cream, served in a blue and white bowl.

Pumpkin Soup

Homemade gnocchi on a wooden board with a sprinkling of flour.

How to Make Gnocchi

Pumpkin spice syrup in a glass pump bottle.

Pumpkin Spice Syrup

Apple bread recipe, sliced and presented on a wooden board.

Apple Bread

Streusel topping in a small enameled pot.

Basic Streusel Recipe

Fried pork chops drizzled with lemon vinaigrette.

Pork Milanese

Homemade lemon vinaigrette, presented in a small glass jar and adorned with chopped shallots.

Lemon Vinaigrette

A loaf of glazed coconut bread with dripping icing and toasted coconut flakes on top, on a marble board with a blue cloth underneath.

Coconut Bread