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Baking blog by Sarah Kieffer, with recipes for cookies, bars and other baked goods. Known for her pan-banging cookie method and careful testing.
Baking recipes from a cookbook author who tests carefully, helpful for bakers who like precise results.
The cookbooks page lists the author's titles, including 100 Cookies, 100 Morning Treats and 100 Afternoon Sweets, and a seasonal recipe card deck of festive bakes.
Visit linkThe recipe index sorts the archive by baked good, with categories such as bars and brownies and breads, rolls and donuts, so a reader can find a scone or a bar without scrolling through the whole blog.
Visit linkThe bars and brownies archive leads with banana bread bars topped with fudge buttercream.
Visit linkIts signature is the pan-banging chocolate chip cookie recipe, which the author is known for. Lemon runs through the lineup: lemon meringue cake, flaky lemon white chocolate scones and chewy lemon sugar cookies. The orange scone post opens with a memory of dry, crumbly scones from a coffee-chain counter, which frames the recipe as a fix for a familiar letdown.
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