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Apple Crisp Recipe Report

This post was sponsored in partnership with Envy Apples. Thanks for supporting the partnerships that keep The Pancake Princess running! I'm heading home in a few days for winter break, and ...

Best Cinnamon Roll Bake Off

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Does a bad cinnamon roll even exist? I resisted a bake off to find the best cinnamon rolls for many months on the premise of this question. (Also due to a fear of making multiple yeast recipes ...

Best Vegetarian Stuffing Bake Off

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Fun fact: my family actually never made traditional stuffing growing up (my mom makes a rice-based stuffing with Chinese sausage, mushrooms, cilantro, green onions and oyster sauce), so discovering ...

Best Sweet Potato Casserole Bake Off

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In researching recipes for this bake off, I re-discovered one of my earliest interactions with this style of "bake off" posts (which definitely unconsciously inspired this post). Back in 2012, I was ...

Apple Frangipane Tart (with almond pulp!)

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If you caught my Instagram stories on the day of the banana bread bake off, you might have seen some highlights from the doughnut-making session that Jessica and I shadowed from midnight ...

Best Banana Bread Bake Off

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Is it just me, or does anyone else start googling "best banana bread recipe" every time there's a bunch of ripe bananas on your counter--only to revert back to the tried and true recipe that you ...

Best Pancakes: A Comparison

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Fun fact: I actually didn't like pancakes growing up. I far preferred my dad's homemade crepes to the spongy, limp Krusteaz mix pancakes we made with the industrial-sized bag from Costco. (Lest you ...

Best Sprinkle Cake Bake Off

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Ooh that Funfetti® cake mix, the taste of nearly universal childhood nostalgia. I was very excited about this bake off and clearly you were too, with the landslide of instagram poll votes that ...

Brownie Bake Off, Part II

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After our successful brownie bake off a few weeks ago, I felt pretty good about our results--but one gap remained. How would my beloved Ghiradelli boxed mix brownies stand up to the winners? So, we ...

36 hours in DC

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If you've been following along since close to the beginning of this blog, you may remember Lilly. Before she heads off to Harvard (for her PhD!!!), I went to visit her once again in DC! She ...

Best Brownie Bake off

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Before this tasting, my all-time favorite brownie was from a box, the remix of my childhood. Since getting into baking, I've made more than a few from-scratch recipes that flopped in the face of boxed ...

36 Hours in Mexico City

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Hello! Here is a very late recap of a quick trip that Dan and I took to Mexico City last year. 2017 seems to be the Year that Everyone Went to Mexico City, and it's no wonder: vibrant culture, ...