Chocolate Chip Cookie Cinnamon Rolls Combining cookies and cinnamon rolls is totally friend‘chip’ goals

Every once in awhile, I run across a food idea so dumb but so obviously delicious that I just have to try it. It happened when I made poutine tacos. It happened when I decided to try Mountain Dew and Doritos cupcakes. And it happened again this past week, when I saw a simple recipe …

Mini Pumpkin Spice Donuts Try a great mini sweet that’s perfect to have ’round

When I was a kid, our Sunday morning breakfasts before church would often be something special from the day-old bakery we had in town. One of my personal favorites was when we’d get mini donuts. I would dip them in milk, trading off between chocolate-covered and cinnamon sugar flavors. I have been thinking about those …

Apple Crisp Breakfast Bars Breakfast bars are ‘apple’utely great for a morning treat

Recently, I had the chance to meet one of our readers from Hesston. We had a fairly short (but very pleasant) conversation, and before I left, he gestured to a bag on his kitchen counter. “Do you like apples?” he asked me. And that’s how I became the excited owner of four huge, beautiful golden …

Air Fryer Bagels This easy air fryer recipe will totally ‘bagel’ your mind

Three years ago, I shared a recipe in this space for an easy homemade pizza dough. If you remember that recipe, this week’s experiment is going to look very, very familiar, as it starts with the exact same basic ingredients. That’s why I knew it would turn out well, and I definitely wanted to try …

Overnight French Toast Casserole Say ‘oui’ to this yummy overnight breakfast casserole

When I began writing this column over 10 years ago, I had grand illusions of people sending me their favorite recipes and me trying them. What I found was that people are normally pretty guarded with their best dishes, and even more so, everyone wanted me to tell them something new to try instead of …

Homemade Cinnamon Rolls Overcome your baking fears and give these rolls a ‘swirl’

I have had cinnamon rolls on the brain lately. Making them from scratch has always intimidated me a bit, and after making a particularly dry batch a couple years ago, I just haven’t had the bravery to try them again. I have two distinctly different recipes—one from my grandma and one from my great aunt—that …

Crockpot Breakfast Casserole You’ll be ‘bacon’ plenty of friends with this hearty breakfast

With the Chiefs heading into the playoffs, Joey and I have been planning for our annual get together with our fantasy football league to watch their first game. In discussing menus for that game, it reminded me that I haven’t shared a fantastic recipe I tried earlier this football season with all of you. We …

Sour Cream Double Chocolate Muffins New baking technique delivers ‘dome sweet dome’ for muffins

I learned something new this week that totally blew my mind: how to create muffins with perfectly domed tops. It’s been a mystery for me for a long time how bakeries and other super bakers manage to get their muffins to rise so tall, puffing perfectly over the edges of their cupcake liners. This week’s …