Bake or Break

Pear and Pecan Muffins

When everyone is clamoring about apple season, I’m the one ogling the pears. As much as I like baking with apples, I prefer the subtlety of pears. Once I get my first ones and start baking, I know fall has officially arrived.

If you could somehow take all the awesome parts of fall and condense them into a muffin, you’d have yourself one of these gems. Pears and pecans and cinnamon make for a pretty perfect combination. These muffins are simple yet tasty, soft yet sturdy.

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Browned Butter Salty Sugar Cookies

I don’t often buy store-bought cookies. All the homemade stuff makes that unnecessary. After we moved last month, however, I stayed out of the kitchen until we could get settled into the new place. During those days, I discovered Brooklyn’s own The Good Batch at a local market.

On impulse, I bought a package of their Brown Butter Salty cookies. These amazing cookies are a soft shortbread made with browned butter and topped with a pinch of salt. I was hooked immediately. So, I set out to make something similar.

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Weekly Mix: Fall Baking and New Cookbooks

Happy Friday! This week has gone so quickly! My days have been filled with lots of baking and playoff baseball. Those are some pretty perfect fall days to me.

In case you missed it, all my excitement about fall (FALL!!!) translated into another “Best of” collection. This one is dedicated to Fall Baking. I had such a tough time narrowing down recipes, that I took those recipes and some other favorites and made a new board at Pinterest dedicated to Fall Baking.

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Good Morning Sunshine Bars

I think it both a good and bad sign that as I began poring over my shiny new copy of Baked Elements, I became thoroughly enamored with the very first recipe. Good, in that I knew that the Baked guys had come through yet again with their latest book. Bad, in that, at this rate, I would likely have a hard time narrowing down what to bake first.

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Pumpkin-Pecan Bread

Confession time. I don’t like pumpkin. As much as I am enamored with fall, you’d think I’d embrace pumpkin baking as so many of you do. Not so much.

Even with my dislike of all things pumpkin, I must admit that this bread is good. More than good. It’s delicious! It’s packed with all kinds of good things – brown sugar, pecans, spices – that complement the pumpkin and make this a great fall quick bread.

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Weekly Mix: Most Searched-For Baking Recipes

Happy Friday! I hope you’ve all had a fabulous week. Quinn and I have been all go for the last month or so, and we plan to be amazingly lazy this weekend. So. Excited.

This week, I came across this article at The Daily Meal that lists the most searched-for recipes in America this year. What is it about lists that fascinates us so? Anyway, as several of these are baking recipes, I thought I’d take a little different route on my Friday post and share my favorites for those of you on the great hunt for these recipes.

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