Spring Bake

We may not be able to reach out and give you a spring break, but we can offer this Spring Bake, an Epicurious tradition that fills your kitchen with showstopping cakes, glorious pastries, and many, many other sweets.

Fresh From the Oven: Our Latest Bakes

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This Depression-Era Riff on Angel Food Cake Is a Forgotten Spring Favorite

With its cheery yellow swirl and a batter that uses both egg whites and yolks, daffodil cake is ideal for spring celebrations.

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How to Keep Your Cakes From Doming and Cracking

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Why Does Overmixing Matter in Baking, and How Do I Avoid It?

This Quick Dough Gives You Infinite Pastry Possibilities

Whipping up a 4-ingredient choux is the first step to cheesy gougères, ice-cream-filled profiteroles, and towering croquembouches.

For Fluffy, Sweet Bread With a Cookie Crunch, Make Conchas

Plus, meet the new wave of bakers who are rethinking the Mexican classic.

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17 Classic Recipes From Baking Legend Cheryl Day

Biscuits and cakes for every occasion.

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For Truly Tender Biscuits, You Need a Hard-Boiled Egg

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Use This Bread-Baker’s Secret to Take Your Homemade Loaves From Good to Great

For Foolproof Funnel Cakes, Ditch the Funnel

Here’s everything you need to know to get started making perfectly crispy funnel cakes at home.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch Is a Buttery Streusel Waiting to Happen

When you crush this cereal and mix it with butter and brown sugar, it becomes the perfect topping for your next quick bread.

Give Your Hot Cross Buns the Muffin Treatment

This easy version pays homage to the classic, but there’s no yeast required.

Welcome to the Age of Carefree Floral Cakes

The free-flowing, foraged cakes of today are not your grandma’s rose-lined layers.

Baking Equipment

Essential baking gear and some things that just make your baking life a little sweeter.

The Best Mixing Bowls for Whisking, Beating, and Making Big Batches of All Kinds of Dough

Food prep’s a breeze with the right set of mixing bowls.

The Best Stand Mixer for Cookies, Cakes, Bread, and Beyond

You may think the KitchenAid is the only player in the stand mixer game. We tested it against a variety of other models to see if the classic really reigns supreme.

The Best Cake Pans, Tested & Reviewed

For birthday cakes, wedding cakes, and cakes every day.

This Danish Dough Whisk Can Make Any Bread, Cake, or Muffin Better

No more over-mixed batter. No more dough hands.

Use a Tall Cake Pan for Bigger, Better Desserts

Three inches of height (instead of the standard two) can be a serious game changer.

We Put Hand Mixers to the Test

Here's the best one to buy if you don't have room for a stand mixer.

Precut Parchment Paper Sheets Make Me Feel Like I Have My Life Together

All of the neatness, none of the fuss.

Turns Out a Baker’s Best Friend Is...the Binder Clip

That’s why they’re featured in Edd Kimber’s new book, One Tin Bakes.

Cakes

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This Classic French Cake Tastes Like the World's Best Candy Bar

This majestic cake—beloved by chefs all over—is worth making for your special celebration.

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They Call This Cream Cheese Frosting Magic—Who Am I to Argue?

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19 Lovable Loaf Cakes for Simple Snacking

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Put Mayonnaise in Your Cake, Just Like Grandma Did

Mayonnaise has been helping bakers make softer, moister cakes for nearly a century.

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The Secret to Better Layer Cakes Is Already in Your Cabinet

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How to Safely Decorate Cakes With Flowers

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Why a Cold Oven Is the Secret to a Better Pound Cake

A 100+ year old technique can help your pound cakes reach greater heights.

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With This Easy Cake Method, You’ll Never Cream Butter and Sugar Together Again

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Hot Milk Sponge Is the Little Black Dress of Cakes

Thandai Poke Cake

This poke cake is like having a cold glass of thandai for Holi—but in cake form!

Banish Dry Cake With This Easy Pastry Chef Trick

This simple technique adds moisture and flavor to your cakes—and helps them last longer.

Tahini Chiffon Cake With Burnt Honey Cream and Poached Rhubarb

This cake has the fluffy, so-light-it-could-float texture of angel food cake, with a touch of egg yolk for richness.

Pistachio Cake

This moist and flavorful pistachio cake is incredibly fragrant thanks to the addition of orange zest.

Glazed Sour Cream Gem Cakes

These plush, tender mini cakes are dressed in a variety of glazes.

Bibingkang Cassava

Grated cassava takes the place of flour in this classic Filipino cake, which soaks up the rich coconut milk, and lends a sweet, nutty flavor and a sticky, chewy texture.

Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Our favorite carrot cake is moist, full of shredded carrot and fragrant spices, and topped with an extra-tangy cream cheese frosting.

Citrus Upside-Down Cake

In this cake, the natural pectin in the citrus, combined with the sugar, creates a pudding-like upside-down layer that’s similar to a buttery marmalade.

Easy Chinese Bakery–Style Whipped Cream Cake

This fluffy, tender whipped cream cake decorated with fruit is a staple of family celebrations.

Classic Vanilla Bundt Cake

Dress it up with whipped cream and fruit, or just eat it by the slice as you walk out the door.

Breakfast and Brunch

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These Honey Buns Will Make You Forget About Cinnamon Rolls

Meet the honey bun that could shine front and center in any professional bakery’s pastry case.

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What’s the Story of the Morning Glory? This Muffin Has Tales to Tell

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I’m Not Perfect, Yet Somehow My Cocoa Brioche Morning Buns Were

Step by Step: Our Take on Circus Bakery's Cinnamon-Cardamom Buns

After seeing Circus Bakery's twisted pastry everywhere on Instagram, we decided to bake a version for ourselves.

How to Make the Best English Muffins You’ve Ever Had

Homemade English muffins are worlds better than anything you can buy at the store.

Extra-Lemony Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

In this easy but extra-lemony lemon poppy seed muffins recipe, a trio of citrusy ingredients are combined: lemon zest, juice, and rich lemon curd.

Classic Kouign-Amann

Small, hand-held kouign-amann are common in North America, but this recipe shows off the other way the classic Breton pastry can be made: as a single 9-inch cake.

Cinnamon Sour Cream Coffee Cake

The addition of cardamom gives this classic coffee cake a flavorful and unexpected zing

Classic Blueberry Muffins

Chock-full of berries, our ultimate muffins have just the right amount of sweetness, plus a gentle tang and tender crumb thanks to sour cream.

Herb-Infused Lemon-Strawberry Loaf

Fresh herbs—like rosemary, thyme, or fresh bay leaves—infuse this buttery cake with a floral flavor that beautifully complements the strawberry and lemon.

Banana Muffins With Brown Sugar Oat Streusel

The classic banana muffin recipe gets a boost from several supporting ingredients in this rendition of the bakery favorite.

Honey Scones With Rhubarb Compote

This is a simple scone recipe with a bit of a makeover: Each scone is glazed with sticky honey and served with a generous dollop of clotted cream and tart rhubarb compote.

Pains au Chocolat

A bite of bittersweet chocolate is rolled up into each of these croissants.

Cookies and Bars

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Go Ahead. Put Some Fish Sauce in Your Cookies

The savory condiment adds a touch of salty depth to this citrusy shortbread.

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For Delicious Shortbread, Grate Your Dough

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For a Better Spritz Cookie, Add Cornstarch

Milk Powder Is the Key to Better Cookies, Brownies, and Cakes

Consider this pantry staple your secret ingredient for making more flavorful desserts.

Making Cookies? Back Away From the Stand Mixer

This flexible, freestyle food processor recipe makes treasure-packed cookies—your way.

Kingston Cookies

A classic Australian sandwich cookie made with two oaty, golden syrup biscuits and a milk chocolate center.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Using salted butter and resting the dough are the secrets to these crowd-pleasing cookies that are equal parts chewy and crunchy.

Pastel Butter Cookies

To give almond shortbread cookies the pastel treatment, dust them with tinted confectioners' sugar blended with finely ground freeze-dried blueberries, raspberries, and mango.

Oatmeal Date Cookies

These superlative oatmeal cookies skip the raisins and use Medjool dates instead.

3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

This easy peanut butter cookie recipe is streamlined for minimal fuss.

Nanaimo Bars

The Nanaimo bar is an iconic Canadian confection that is remarkably easy to make.

Goat Butter Shortbread

Goat’s milk butter is mildly tangy, complementing the whole wheat flour and wheat germ in these cookies.

Ma’amoul Med (Orange and Espresso Date Cookie Bars)

Chef Reem Assil’s cookie bar version of ma’amoul—a holiday cookie enjoyed for Eid, Christmas, and Easter—is scented with espresso and orange blossom water.

Sweet and Salty Hello Dollies

Bar cookies are always brilliant, but these bars are extra brilliant because salty Ritz crackers add balance to an otherwise strictly sweet treat.

Peanut Better Blossoms

Crunchy peanut butter and a quick, glossy, trufflelike chocolate ganache take classic peanut butter blossoms a step up from their former selves.

All-The-Seeds Hamantaschen

These hamantaschen are filled with a celebration of seeds set in chewy-soft caramelized honey.

Cocoa Brownies

The best—and easiest—brownies you'll ever make.

Pies and Tarts

These 3 Pie Pros Will Help You Make Better Pie

We hosted a roundtable with Lauren Ko, Erin Jeanne McDowell, and Ken Haedrich, authors of a crop of new pie cookbooks, about how to make the most of pie season.

How to Make the Best Vegan Pie Crust

A little science can help you make perfect pie crust that’s tender and flaky every single time.

Banana Cream Pie With Bourbon Whipped Cream

This banana cream pie recipe reminds me of homemade banana pudding but with a kick.

Meme’s Coconut Rice Pudding Pie

This chilled rice pudding pie is adapted from the popular dessert at MeMe’s Diner in Brooklyn, NY.

Coconut Custard and Rhubarb Tart

This rhubarb-topped tart is just the thing for all of your spring celebrations.

Banoffee Pie

Despite its origins in Sussex, British supermarkets in the 1980s sold banoffee pie under the moniker “American pie.”

Easy Fruit Tart with Pecan Cookie Crust

Here, lemon curd-spiked whipped cream fills an easy press-in crust. Sprinkle berries on top for a simple finishing touch, or arrange sliced fruit in a rose-like pattern for a stunning presentation.

Frozen Margarita Pie

Tart, creamy, and boozy—this is your favorite cocktail in pie form.

Fruit Galette With Buckwheat Crust

Galettes were invented to make amateur bakers feel like pros. No trimming, no tucking, no crimping, no venting, and no soggy bottom.

Chocolate Cream Pie

This classic chocolate pie recipe is a chocolate-lover's dream: creamy chocolate pudding piled into a chocolate pie shell and topped with whipped cream.

Breads

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