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Best Lemon Bar Bake Off

I'm almost positive that the lemon bars of my youth were these Krusteaz mix bars. They made rare appearances in our household's rotation of the more popular Ghiradelli brownie mix and Neiman Marcus ...

Best Sweet Cornbread Bake Off

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In some parts of the country, "sweet cornbread" is essentially blasphemy. But when you grow up on Trader Joe's boxed mix cornbread (ahem, me), you develop a palate for cornbread of the sweet and cakey ...

Best Apple Pie Bake Off

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Growing up, I did not like apple pie. Hot and mushy cooked fruit did not appeal to me as a dessert, even when surrounded by flaky crust and cool ice cream. After making 9 of them at once, however, ...

Chocolate Cake Bake Off, Part II

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After baking 12 chocolate cakes for the chocolate cake bake off, the last thing I wanted to do was bake more. (Honestly, if you're trying to kick an addiction to chocolate cake, just try baking 12 of ...

Best Biscuit Bake Off

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The Search for the Best Biscuit Recipe If I'm being completely honest, my first-ever biscuit may have been from my college cafeteria. Or KFC. Definitely not homemade. However, if we need to ...

Best Chocolate Cake Bake Off

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Chocolate. Cake. What a universal crowd-pleaser. You'd think this would be the easiest of all recipes to get right because who could hate a chocolate cake? But I’ve had a lot of issues with so-called ...

Best Buttermilk Waffle Bake Off

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Welcome to the Part II of the Waffle Bake Off series, in which we search for the best ever buttermilk-style waffle recipe! Buttermilk-style waffles are probably the kind that most Americans are ...

Best Yeast Waffle Bake Off

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Welcome to the Part I of the Waffle Bake Off series, in which we search for the best ever yeast waffle recipe (which, coincidentally, science says are the best kind). Although my sweet ...

5 Days in Perth

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If you let Dan (better known as Aussie Bae) tell it, his hometown of Perth is a sleepy seaside town in the middle of nowhere, Australia. The reality he actually introduced me to (when we visited in ...

Bake Offs of 2018

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What a year! I technically started these bake offs in 2017 (with the epic chocolate chip cookie bake off, inspired by Skyler--the author of many of my beautiful Tableau visualizations--getting ...

Apple Crisp Recipe Report

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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 ...