Food52 Baking

A stunning collection of hassle-free recipes for baking cakes, cookies, tarts, puddings, muffins, bread, and more, from the editors behind the leading food website Food52.

Whether it's the chocolate cake at every childhood birthday, blondies waiting for you after school, or hot dinner rolls smeared with butter at Thanksgiving dinner, homemade baked goods hold a place in many of our best memories. And that's why baking shouldn't be reserved for special occasions.

With this book, curated by the editors of Food52, you can have homemade treats far superior to the store-bought variety, even when it feels like you're too busy to turn on the oven. From Brown Butter Cupcake Brownies to "Cuppa Cuppa Sticka" Peach and Blueberry Cobbler, these sixty reliable, easy-to-execute recipes won't have you hunting down special equipment and hard-to-find ingredients or leave you with a kitchen covered in flour and a skink piled high with bowls. They're not ordinary or ho-hum, either: ingredients you've baked with before (and some you haven't - like black sesame, coconut oil, and lavender) come together to create new favorites like Baked Cardamom French Toast and Olive Oil and Sesame Crackers. Filled with generations' worth of kitchen wisdom, beautiful photography, and tips you'll return to, Baking is the new go-to collection for anyone who wants to whip up something sweet every day.

Breakfast Goods
Featherweight Blueberry Scones  |  2
Baked Cardamom French Toast with Syrupy Meyer Lemons  |  5
Yogurt Biscuits  |  8
Cranberry, Oatmeal, and
Flaxseed Muffins  |  11
Whole Wheat Molasses Yogurt Bread
with Figs and Walnuts  |  12
Bestest Banana Bread  |  15
Buttermilk Dutch Baby with
Caramelized Pears  |  16
Overnight Orange
Refrigerator Rolls  |  19
Tomato and Cream
Cheese Turnovers  |  20
Cookies & Bars
Cream Cheese Cookies  |  25
Italian Cornmeal Cookies  |  26
Cardamom Currant
Snickerdoodles  |  29
Grape-Nut and Chocolate Chip
Kitchen Sink Oatmeal Cookies  |  30
Six-Ingredient Peanut Butter and
Jelly Sandwich Cookies  |  33
Dark Chocolate and Cherry
Mandelbrot  |  34
Brown Sugar Shortbread  |  37
Balsamic Macaroons with
Chocolate Chips  |  38
Hippie Crispy Treats  |  41
Double-Layer Coconut
Pecan Bars  |  42
Oatmeal Streusel Bars with
Rhubarb Filling  |  45
Magic Espresso Brownies  |  46
Fruit Desserts
Blueberry Schlumpf  |  51
Nectarine Slump  |  52
Apple Brown Betty with
Gingersnap Crumbs  |  55
Almond Butter and Oatmeal Crisp  |  56
Blueberry Cream Torte  |  59
Summer Fruit Galette  |  61
Peach Tart  |  64
“Cuppa Cuppa Sticka” Peach
and Blueberry Cobbler  |  67
Custardy Cakes & Puddings
Challah Bread Pudding “Soufflé”  |  71
Raspberry Clafoutis  |  72
Pudding Chômeur  |  75
Baked Rice Pudding with Coconut
Milk and Honey  |  76
Lemon Sponge Cups  |  79
Sour Cream Cheesecake with
Chocolate Cookie Crust  |  80
Coconut Tres Leches Cake  |  83
Everyday Cakes
Strawberry-Yogurt Snack Cake  |  87
Easy-as-Pie Apple Cake  |  88
Cold-Oven Pound Cake  |  91
Honey Pecan Cake  |  92
Spiced Parsnip Cake  |  95
Chocolate Dump-It Cake  |  96
Tomato Soup Spice Cake with
Cream Cheese Frosting  |  99
Special Occasion Cakes
Brown Butter Cupcake Brownies  |  102
Maple Persimmon Upside-Down Cake
with Maple Cream  |  105
Tender Yellow Cake with Bittersweet Chocolate Frosting  |  107
Cherry Almond Crumb Cake  |  111
Black Sesame Cupcakes with Matcha
Buttercream  |  112
Olive Oil Ricotta Cake with Plums  |  115
Skillet Spice Cake with Gooey
Caramel Bottom  |  116
Gluten-Free Lemon Blackberry
Corn Cake  |  119
Banana Cake with Penuche Frosting  |  120
Pumpkin Pie Crumble  |  124
Savory Baked Goods
Heavenly Molasses Oatmeal Rolls  |  129
Black Pepper Popovers with Chives
and Parmesan  |  130
Fifteen-Minute Olive Oil and Sesame
Seed Crackers  |  133
Cheese Crispettes  |  134
Basil Onion Cornbread  |  137
Savory Galette with Greens
and Gruyère  |  138
No-Knead Thin-Crust Pizzas  |  141
Grilled Flatbreads  |  145