Homemade Granola
Breakfast and Brunch

Homemade Granola

This Homemade Granola is an easy, versatile recipe that is made with simple, wholesome ingredients. Old fashioned oats and nuts are tossed with coconut oil, honey and maple syrup, then baked until golden and crisp. Break the granola into big clusters or into smaller pieces and add your favorite dried fruit or chopped chocolate for…

Tiramisu Focaccia
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch | sourdough

Tiramisu Focaccia

This Tiramisu Focaccia is inspired by the classic Italian dessert. Plain and coffee flavored dough are layered and stuffed with a creamy sweetened mascarpone filling, then baked until golden brown. Creamy sweetened mascarpone tops this focaccia with a light dusting of dutch processed cocoa powder for the most delicious breakfast or brunch treat. You can…

Cannoli Focaccia
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch

Cannoli Focaccia

This Cannoli Focaccia is inspired by the classic Italian dessert. Crispy focaccia is loaded with mini chocolate chips, then baked until golden brown. Creamy cannoli filling is piped into the focaccia for the most delicious breakfast or brunch treat. You can make this using sourdough or yeast focaccia. This focaccia makes your entire house smell…

Almond Croissant Focaccia
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch

Almond Croissant Focaccia

This Almond Croissant Focaccia is inspired by the famous French bakery almond croissants. Bubbly focaccia is stuffed with a rich, gooey frangipane filling, then topped with more frangipane filling and lots of thinly sliced almonds. After baking the focaccia is brushed with an almond simple syrup and dusted with powdered sugar. This focaccia makes your…

Blackberry Jam Recipe
Breakfast and Brunch | Spring Treats | summer treats

Blackberry Jam Recipe

This homemade blackberry jam recipe only requires 3 ingredients and less than 20 minutes to make it. The natural sweetness of ripe blackberries is balanced perfectly with freshly squeezed lemon juice, which also helps the jam achieve it’s thicker, yet spreadable consistency.  This jam tastes wonderful on toast, in cakes or pastries, or as a…

Pistachio Muffins
Breakfast and Brunch | Muffins | Spring Treats

Pistachio Muffins

This easy Pistachio Muffins recipe yields fluffy, incredibly moist muffins that take roughly 30 minutes to make. Every bite is loaded with crunchy pistachios, that contrast well with the soft muffins. These muffins rival any bakery muffins with their perfectly domed tops, and crunchy sugar coating. Enjoy these for a delicious breakfast or brunch treat….

The Best Cinnamon Rolls (Easy, One Rise)
Breakfast and Brunch | Cinnamon Rolls | Mother’s Day

The Best Cinnamon Rolls (Easy, One Rise)

These Cinnamon Rolls are the ultimate cinnamon rolls – they’re easy to make, only require one rise time, are ultra soft and gooey. Each cinnamon roll is filled with a buttery brown sugar cinnamon swirl that has just the right amount of cinnamon and extra brown sugar to create a delicious gooey center. These rolls…

Homemade Honey Cinnamon Butter (like Texas Roadhouse)
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch | Toppings and Sauces

Homemade Honey Cinnamon Butter (like Texas Roadhouse)

This Homemade Honey Cinnamon Butter is sweet, creamy and tastes absolutely delicious paired with your favorite dinner rolls, banana bread, morning breakfast bagels or english muffins. The butter comes together in minutes and I guarantee you’ll be wanting to make this again and again! If you’ve ever been to Texas Roadhouse and tried their homemade…

Beignet Recipe
Breakfast and Brunch | Desserts | Uncategorized

Beignet Recipe

These beignets are soft, pillowy and hard to resist! These French donuts are fried until perfectly golden, then generously dusted with confectioner’s sugar. If you love the famous Café Du Monde Beignets, you will love these! With Mardi Gras right around the corner, I’ve been thinking about those delicious, fresh beignets from the famous Cafe…

Tanghulu recipe
Breakfast and Brunch | Christmas Treats | Easter | Mother’s Day | Valentine’s

Easy Tanghulu Recipe

This Tanghulu recipe is easy and produces show-stopping treats that taste just as good if not better than they look. Strawberries, grapes or mandarin orange slices are dipped in a glossy sugar solution that forms a crisp, crackly shell. The crunchy exterior combined with the juicy fruit on the inside is a delightful balance of…

Strawberry Jam
Breakfast and Brunch | Spring Treats

Strawberry Jam

This Strawberry Jam only uses 3 ingredients and can be made in under 30 minutes. The natural sweetness of ripe strawberries is balanced perfectly with freshly squeezed lemon juice, which also helps the jam achieve it’s thick yet spreadable consistency.  This jam tastes wonderful on toast, in cakes or pastries, or as a topping for…

Cinnamon Roll Focaccia
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch | Mother’s Day | sourdough

Cinnamon Roll Focaccia (Sourdough or yeast)

This Cinnamon Roll Focaccia uses either sourdough or yeast and yields a delicious sweet, tender treat. This focaccia is crispy on the outside, and soft on the inside, with ribbons of sweet brown sugar cinnamon throughout. You can add sweet Honeycrisp apples to this, blueberries and lemon zest, or even buttery pecans for a delicious…

Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls
Breakfast and Brunch | Cinnamon Rolls | Mother’s Day | Valentine’s

Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls

These incredibly soft and delicious Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls come together in under 90 minutes. Buttery soft, homemade dough is layered with a sweet chocolate brown sugar cinnamon filling. The warm sweetness of the cinnamon complements the rich flavor of the chocolate, creating the perfect balance of flavors. You can top these chocolate cinnamon rolls with…

Easy Banana Nut Muffins
Breakfast and Brunch | Muffins

Easy Banana Nut Muffins

These Banana Nut Muffins are incredibly soft and moist. The muffins are packed with delicious ripe bananas and buttery pecans, but feel free to substitute the pecans for walnuts or even chocolate chips, or just leave them plain. The muffins are topped with a brown sugar cinnamon streusel and more buttery pecans which get lightly…

English Muffin Bread
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch

English Muffin Bread

This English Muffin Bread is foolproof, and it’s the perfect bread for beginners, and experts alike. It requires no kneading, no fancy mixers, and it can be made in roughly an hour. It freezes well too! This bread has the characteristic nooks and crannies of an English muffin, but it’s way easier to make. You…

Almond Croissant Muffins
Breakfast and Brunch | Muffins

Almond Croissant Muffins

These Almond Croissant Muffins are inspired by the famous almond croissant. Soft fluffy muffins are stuffed with a rich, gooey frangipane filling (almond croissant filling), then topped with thinly sliced almonds that get lightly toasted in the oven. A sprinkle of powdered sugar adds the perfect finishing touch to these muffins. The best part? These…

Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls
Breakfast and Brunch | Christmas | Christmas Breakfast and Brunch | Christmas Treats | Cinnamon Rolls | Thanksgiving

Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls (Like Cinnabon)

These Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls taste just like Cinnabon, but better! Soft, fluffy layers of sweet dough is wrapped around plenty of brown sugar cinnamon filling. The extra cinnamon filling creates a gooey sauce on the bottom of the cinnamon rolls when baked. These are slathered with a melt in your mouth cream cheese frosting, that…

Cranberry Orange Muffins
Breakfast and 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…

Apple Cinnamon Rolls
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch | Cinnamon Rolls | Fall Treats

Apple Cinnamon Rolls

These Apple Cinnamon Rolls are an absolute delight. Pillowy, soft dough is nestled together with a generous amount of gooey brown sugar cinnamon filling and buttery cinnamon sugar apples. These apple cinnamon rolls are easy to make and taste delicious! I absolutely love apple season, but for me, apple season isn’t really a season. I…

Pumpkin Stuffed French Toast
Breakfast and Brunch | Fall | Fall Treats

Pumpkin Stuffed French Toast

This Pumpkin Stuffed French Toast is the perfect treat for cozy fall mornings. Thick, buttery slices of brioche bread are stuffed with a maple pumpkin cream cheese filling, then dipped in a pumpkin batter and topped with crunchy cornflakes. It’s truly delicious! This stuffed French toast is the perfect breakfast treat or brunch for special…

Blueberry Muffin Cookies
Breakfast and 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…

1-hour Peach Cinnamon Rolls
Breakfast and Brunch | Cinnamon Rolls | Easy Summer Recipes | summer treats

1-hour Peach Cinnamon Rolls

1-hour Peach Cinnamon Rolls are the ultimate summer treat. Soft, pillowy dough is stuffed with a brown sugar cinnamon peach filling, then topped with a delicious cream cheese icing. Serve these with a scoop of vanilla ice cream for a delicious summer dessert, or enjoy as a tasty breakfast treat. Fresh peaches may be my…

Easy Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch | Cinnamon Rolls | Desserts | Easy Summer Recipes | summer treats

Easy Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls

Easy Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls with a homemade blueberry cream cheese frosting. These cinnamon rolls are the perfect breakfast treat. Soft, fluffy dough is swirled with a cinnamon brown sugar filling and homemade blueberry jam. Each roll is frosted with a generous amount of blueberry cream cheese frosting that melts into the cinnamon rolls, making them…

1- hour Almond Croissant Cinnamon Rolls
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch | Cinnamon Rolls

1- hour Almond Croissant Cinnamon Rolls

These 1-hour Almond Croissant Cinnamon Rolls are the ultimate breakfast or brunch treat. Soft, fluffy cinnamon rolls are stuffed with an almond filling (the same filling that is used in almond croissants), then topped with a delicious velvety smooth frosting and sliced almonds. This recipe can be made in roughly 1 hour from start to…

Blueberry Swirl Rolls
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch

Blueberry Swirl Rolls

These Blueberry Swirl Rolls are incredibly soft and fluffy, and stuffed with a delicious homemade blueberry jam. These rolls are versatile. You can enjoy these rolls as a breakfast or brunch treat, an afternoon snack or even a side to any meal. They’re visually appealing and I guarantee won’t last long! It’s late spring and…

Blueberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
Breakfast and Brunch | Spring Treats | summer treats

Blueberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

This Blueberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake is full of juicy, ripe blueberries, a buttery almond crumble, and a soft cake with a cream cheese swirl through the center. This cake makes the perfect breakfast or brunch treat.   Here’s what you will love about this Blueberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake Here’s how to make this…

Berry Pancakes
Breakfast and Brunch | quick and easy

Berry Pancakes

There is nothing that beats a stack of warm, fluffy pancakes. These Berry Pancakes are thick, fluffy and are bursting with fresh blueberries, strawberries and raspberries. Serve these pancakes with a delicious, homemade berry syrup that takes less than 10 minutes to make. The details make the berry syrup If you choose to, I recommend…

Cinnamon Raisin Bagels
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch

Cinnamon Raisin Bagels

These New York style Cinnamon Raisin Bagels have a delicious cinnamon swirl, are perfectly chewy and can be ready in under 2 hours. They freeze well, so you can make them for your week ahead. Top them with cream cheese, or butter and cinnamon sugar. The details choosing between all-purpose and bread flour Bagel dough…

Orange Cake
Desserts | Breakfast and Brunch | Winter Treats

Orange Cake

This Orange Cake is bursting with orange flavor from fresh orange juice and orange zest. It can be made without a mixer and comes together quickly. Top the cake off with an orange glaze for a delicious treat for breakfast or dessert. I love citrus season and come January I crave all the fresh oranges….

Bakery Style Red Velvet Muffins
Breakfast and Brunch | Desserts | Valentine’s | Winter Treats

Bakery Style Red Velvet Muffins

These Bakery Style Red Velvet Muffins are incredibly moist, have delicious cocoa flavors and a wonderful tang from a combination of buttermilk and yogurt.  These muffins are made in one bowl and take less than a half hour to make. A crunchy granulated sugar crust adds the finishing touch to these muffins. The details Mixing…

Nutella Star Bread
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch | Christmas | Christmas Treats | Valentine’s

Nutella Star Bread

This beautiful Nutella Star Bread is the perfect Christmas breakfast or brunch that will surely impress everyone. It’s surprisingly easy to make and only takes roughly 1 hour to make. Soft, pillowy bread pairs with the roasted hazelnut and chocolate flavors of Nutella. Special mornings call for a special breakfast or brunch. This Nutella Star…

Overnight Cinnamon Rolls
Breakfast and Brunch | Christmas | Cinnamon Rolls | Desserts

Overnight Cinnamon Rolls

These Overnight Cinnamon Rolls are ultra soft, gooey and perfect to make for the holidays, for busy mornings and for when you have friends and family over. The cream cheese frosting melts into the warm cinnamon roll swirl, making these irresistible. As I’ve mentioned before, my mom wasn’t one to make things from scratch growing…

Roasted Garlic, Potato and Caramelized Onion Focaccia
Breakfast and Brunch | Bread | Fall | Thanksgiving

Roasted Garlic, Potato and Caramelized Onion Focaccia

If you’re looking for a crowd pleasing brunch idea, this Roasted Garlic, Potato and Caramelized Onion Focaccia is it. The dough is made the day before, then rises in the fridge overnight to develop extra flavor. The focaccia is topped with a rosemary garlic olive oil, caramelized onion, potatoes, that get crispy in the oven,…

Apple Cinnamon Streusel Muffins
Breakfast and Brunch | Desserts | Fall | Fall Treats | Muffins | quick and easy

Apple Cinnamon Streusel Muffins

These Apple Cinnamon Streusel Muffins are made with an easy, one bowl muffin batter, and plenty of fresh, ripe apples. The muffin batter is scooped into muffin liners, then a layer of cinnamon sugar is sprinkled on the batter, Additional batter is scooped on top, along with a buttery cinnamon streusel. These muffins are moist,…

Homemade Croissants
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch

Homemade Croissants

These Homemade Croissants are golden and crispy on the outside, and buttery and flaky on the inside. While croissants in general require a lot of rolling of dough, rising time and patience, these croissants use a method that makes them easier to incorporate the buttery layers. The dough is rolled into circles, coated in a…

Blueberry Bagels
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch

Blueberry Bagels

These Blueberry Bagels are loaded with blueberries, chewy, lightly sweet and a beautiful purple color. The bagels can be made in roughly one hour and are served with a delicious homemade Blueberry Lemon Cream Cheese. You can’t beat homemade bagels. I love bagels, I mean who doesn’t? I went through a phase in college where…

1-Hour Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls
Bread | Breakfast and Brunch | Cinnamon Rolls | Desserts

1-Hour Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls

1-Hour Soft Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls – These pillowy rolls are made with a cinnamon brown sugar dough and are packed with a delicious homemade blueberry jam filling. They are topped with a cream cheese icing, adding the perfect finishing touch. This easy recipe is perfect for beginners and those that don’t want to spend half…

1-Hour Soft Cinnamon Rolls
quick and easy | Bread | Breakfast and Brunch | Cinnamon Rolls | Desserts

1-Hour Soft Cinnamon Rolls

If you haven’t made homemade cinnamon rolls, this easy recipe only takes 1 hour from start to finish, and is almost fool proof. Soft, pillowy dough is layered with a delicious buttery cinnamon sugar layer that creates a delicious gooey cinnamon sugar bottom on the rolls after baking. Homemade cream cheese icing adds the perfect…