Breads
Bread changes a meal through crust, crumb, and the way it carries other flavors. Dinner rolls, cornbread, flatbreads, muffins, biscuits, and yeast loaves give this collection several starting points. Choose a dough or finished bread suited to the meal, whether you want something to slice, tear, fill, or serve warm alongside another dish.
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Bagels
Bagels offer a chewy bread with a shape suited to slicing and filling. The collection includes a bagel preparation and spinach-and-cheese bagel rings for a different savory approach.
Biscuits
Garlic cheddar biscuits, savory slab biscuits, and blueberry-ginger variations offer different ways to work flavor into a tender bread. Browse biscuits for a meal accompaniment or a breakfast serving.
Cornbread
Cornmeal gives these breads a distinct texture, with pumpkin, chiles, and other additions changing their character. The collection includes sweet-leaning and savory cornbreads for serving beside a meal.
Croissants
Croissants depend on folded layers of dough and butter for their distinctive pastry structure. These recipes include dough preparations and finished croissants for cooks ready to work through the stages.
Doughs & Bread Bases
A prepared dough is the starting point for a loaf, dumpling, or pizza. These bread bases gather foundational recipes, including pizza dough and family dumplings, for building another dish.
Flatbreads & Tortillas
Flour tortillas, skillet naan, cottage cheese flatbread, and arepas offer breads with different grains and textures. Browse flatbreads for wrapping, filling, or serving alongside a meal.
Muffins
Muffins bring fruit, spices, crumbs, or cream cheese into an individual baked serving. Apple, lemon, and cinnamon preparations offer different starting points for breakfast or a small sweet bite.
Quick Breads
Quick breads use approaches that avoid a long yeast rise, with sweet and savory flavors represented here. Tomato-herb bread and pumpkin cornbread show the range of the collection.
Rolls & Buns
Dinner rolls, cinnamon rolls, and garlic knots bring dough into portions made for sharing. Choose a savory bread for the meal or a filled, sweet roll for another serving occasion.
Scones
Scones can carry savory ingredients as readily as fruit. Bacon and dried tomato, ham and cheddar, and blueberry-buttermilk recipes offer three distinct directions for these portioned bakes.
Yeast Breads & Loaves
Yeast doughs develop into loaves and other breads through mixing, resting, and baking. Soft pretzels and bacon bread offer starting points for cooks interested in the texture that fermentation can build.
In this collection
Lemon Rosemary Zucchini Bread
I’m on a mission this summer. A mission out of necessity, resulting from the abundance of certain summer squash I planted in my garden. Four plants. What was…
Green Chile Cheese Toast
Made with pepper Jack, white Cheddar, and Parmesan cheese, Green Chile Cheese Toast makes a decadent accompaniment to your favorite soup or chili. Ingredients 1 cup (4 ounces)…
Rosemary Bread
Ingredients 1 1/4 -ounce packet active dry yeast 2 teaspoons sugar 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for brushing and serving 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus…

Olive Garden Breadsticks
Olive Garden has the best breadsticks recipe around, and now you can too. These soft, buttery breadsticks with a hint of salt complement any main dish, soup, or…

Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients Dough 1 cup warm milk 2 eggs, room temperature 1/3 cup butter, melted 4 1/2 cups bread flour or regular flour (bread flour makes for a lighter…

Pickle Biscuits
Split baked biscuits, and top with ham and mustard for the World’s Best Ham Sandwich! We promise. Ingredients 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), frozen 2 1/2 cups self-rising…
Willie Nelson’s “Always on My Mind” Biscuits with Chocolate Gravy and Coco
“Christmas was a lot different for us growing up than it is today,” says Willie Nelson. “We never had a Christmas tree and couldn’t afford presents. Instead, we…
English Muffin Tid-Bits
Onions, garlic and butter transform a plain English muffin into the perfect dipper for a bowl of minestrone soup. 1 package English muffins 1 stick unsalted butter, softened…
Artisan Bread Bowls
Hollow out the center of these tasty bread bowls, and fill with stew or chili. 3¾ cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour ½ cup King Arthur whole wheat…
Herman and Me
How a lovable sourdough starter proved to be the recipe for a lasting friendship The first time I scribbled Herman’s name atop a blank piece of notebook paper,…
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