When I was first making fried chicken at home, I easily burned the outside of the pieces before the inside was anywhere near done. So, when I was testing this recipe, I took note of the most common issues from my own experience, along with those of other home cooks, and determined they mostly stem…
A good brioche bun is the difference between a burger and a great burger. It’s soft and faintly sweet, rich with butter and egg, golden and glossy on top. The texture is fluffy inside, but it holds together under a juicy patty instead of dissolving into mush. These are the ones I make for every…
This blackberry cobbler is the recipe I reach for the second juicy blackberries show up at the market. There’s no biscuit dough to cut in, no pie crust to roll—you simply stir a buttery batter together in one bowl, pour it into a dish, scatter sugared berries over the top, and the oven does the…
Pastry cream is the filling that makes a cream puff so delicious. It’s the custard piped into éclairs, spread under the fruit on a tart, layered into Boston cream pie, and tucked inside warm bomboloni. It’s a French custard—crème pâtissière—and once you know how to make it, a whole world of bakery-case desserts is at…
Palmiers are a very simple cookie to make, with just a sheet of frozen puff pastry rolled with granulated sugar. But without the right technique, you can go from perfectly caramelized to burnt on the bottom with very pale tops in just a few minutes. Thankfully, the technique is super simple—it only requires flipping the…
I am so excited to share my new book with you and it’s the book you have all been waiting for! Throughout the last several years, I have received countless emails, messages, and audience questions at my book tours all asking me if I will ever write a book that is 100% baking recipes. This…
I first posted a chocolate raspberry cake on this site in 2016, with fresh raspberries scattered between layers of chocolate cake and buttercream. It was a good cake, but after ten years of making it, and hearing from readers about what worked and what didn’t, I’ve tweaked the recipe slightly for a cake I think…
This tiramisu cake was one of the very first cake recipes I made for Preppy Kitchen! I’m proud of the original recipe I posted in 2017, but I’ve retested and updated the recipe after years of reader questions and dialing in the trouble spots. The mascarpone filling is firmer making it easier to slice. I…
