dessert

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 ...

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 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 ...

Looking for the best sugar cookie recipe around? Me too. My memories of cookie baking include tons of time: getting out the heavy KitchenAid mixer, waiting for the dough to chill, rolling out mounds ...

Best Pumpkin Pie Bake Off

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Every year without fail, I find myself googling "best pumpkin pie recipe." With this experiment, we set out to answer the question sans the endless searching. Methodology: how we baked all 12 ...

Avocado Toast Cake

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This past weekend, I flew back home to NorCal for my childhood friend's wedding. It was my first time being in a wedding and though I was v concerned about having to do my own hair and make up and ...

Strawberry Momofuku Cake

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On Monday, I caught a death cold (wheezing coughing, extreme fatigue and so much mucus I thought I would never breathe right again) which was probably compounded by staying up until 1 a.m. to finish ...

Baked’s Caramel Apple Cake

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Once again, another roommate's birthday has come and gone and while no one is going to award me prizes for making perfectly leveled cakes, at least everyone said this one tasted good. Halfway (or ...

Family Classic: Wine Cake (from scratch!)

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At the beginning of this year, I had the intention of sharing some of my classic family recipes on a monthly basis. One finished business degree, trip to Australia and Thailand, start of a ...