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Best Copycat Levain Cookie Recipe

I tried my first Levain ("luh-ven") cookie back in 2013 when Kayle took me on a mini eating tour in New York and it's been a crucial stop on any New York trip ever since. For those unfamiliar, Levain ...

Best Yellow Cake Bake Off

by erika 25 Comments

Is there anyone who doesn't love this classic combo? In our quest to find the best yellow cake and chocolate frosting recipe, let me state my biases up front. My personal preference is for a light, ...

Best Lemon Bar Recipe Bake Off

by erika 13 Comments

If you're a lemon dessert lover, chances are you've already tried your fair share of lemon bars. But have you found the very best lemon bar recipe?! Lemon bars are renowned for their bright, tangy ...

Best Sweet Cornbread Bake Off

by erika 8 Comments

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 ...

Chocolate Cake Bake Off, Part II

by erika 19 Comments

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

by erika

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

by erika 14 Comments

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 breakfast item ...

Bake Offs of 2018

by erika 10 Comments

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

by erika 3 Comments

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

by erika 44 Comments

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 ...