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Mini Pecan Pie Cakes
Fall | Fall Treats

Mini Pecan Pie Cakes

These Mini Pecan Pie Cakes are the dessert you need to make. Warm, gooey pecan pie filling sits on top of a soft, moist cake. Serve these cakes warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and homemade caramel sauce for a delicious fall treat. These would make a great addition to the Thanksgiving dessert…

Cranberry Orange Muffins
Breakfast | brunch | Fall | Fall Treats | Muffins

Cranberry Orange Muffins

These Cranberry Orange Muffins are moist, tender and bursting with fresh flavors from fresh orange juice, zest and cranberries. The muffins have the perfect balance of sweetness with the tang of the fresh orange juice and cranberries. These muffins make the perfect breakfast treat for your fall mornings, or Thanksgiving table. They take less than…

Honey Butter Rolls
Bread | Thanksgiving

Honey Butter Rolls

If you’re a beginner at making bread, this honey butter roll recipe is for you. These honey butter rolls can be made from start to finish in roughly an hour, and require very little hands on time. Pillowy soft dough is made with a touch of honey which adds a delicious sweetness to the rolls….

Pumpkin Shaped Bagels
Bagels | Bread | Fall | Fall Treats

Pumpkin Shaped Bagels

These Pumpkin Shaped Bagels are made with pumpkin and all the delicious flavors of fall. The bagels are sandwiched together with a pumpkin spice cream cheese that makes these a delicious breakfast for your fall mornings. The bagels can be made in roughly an hour and have that delicious characteristic chewy exterior and soft interior.


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Blueberry Muffin Cookies
Breakfast | brunch | Cookies | Desserts | Easy Summer Recipes | summer treats

Blueberry Muffin Cookies

When blueberry muffins meet a cookie, you get these Blueberry Muffin Cookies. These cookies are soft, thick and loaded with blueberries. The streusel on top adds the perfect contrasting texture as well as flavor to these cookies. No dough chilling required for these. They take only 10 minutes to mix together and 10 minutes to…

Meet the author

Welcome! I’m Jolene!

Remember the smell of warm chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven? Or, how about holding a slice of gooey, cheesy pizza. The nostalgia of food is something that all of us have. Whether it is the taste of the delicious food that you remember, the person you made the food with, or the people you sat at the table with, we all have nostalgia for our favorite foods. And, nostalgia is something special. It connects me to my dad, who recently passed away. It reminds me of my mom before she was diagnosed with parkinson’s. And, now it makes memories for my own family, for my own kids to remember from their growing up years.

My name is Jolene, the creator of Simple Baking with Pep. I grew up making Christmas cookies with my mom from store-bought dough. While we didn’t make many things from scratch, the memories I made from those Christmas cookies fueled my love for baking. Now I have a family of my own and I enjoy sharing my love of baking and cooking with my own family, just like my mom did. I hope to inspire you to try something new and grow a fondness for baking and cooking. Even if you make a mistake or two, you’ll share some laughs and create memories along the way. Trust me, I’ve had my fair share of burnt cookies. Stay awhile, make a recipe or two, and make some memories that will last a lifetime, along the way.

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