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

Matcha Muffins
Ingredients 1 2/3 cup All-Purpose Flour 1/2 teaspoon Salt 1 teaspoon Baking Powder 1 1/2 Tablespoons Matcha 1/3 cup Butter (melted) 1/2 cup Brown Sugar 1/2 Tablespoon Honey…

German Beer Bread with Rosemary Butter
I’m a fan of German beer, especially Pinkus because of their Organic farming and production practices. Again, any light beer will do. Once you are ready to throw…
Pillowy Light Cloud Bread
Cloud Bread is soft and pillowy light. Don’t let the name fool you. It’s not really bread but a bread replacement. It contains no flour so of course,…

Rosemary Olive Oil Rolls
Ingredients 2 cups warm water (105-110˚ F) 1 1/2 lbs. (about 4 1/2 cups) bread flour, plus more as needed 1 Tablespoon instant (rapid rise) yeast 1/4 cup…
Cat-Head Biscuits with Tomato Gravy
Cat-head biscuits are delightfully huge, crispy-on-the-outside, fluffy-on-the-inside homemade biscuits. Their size and crunch make them ideal to serve with a thick, hearty gravy. The name comes from their…

Jalapeño Biscuits
These 6-ingredient biscuits get a spicy kick from jalapeno pepper. Ingredients 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/8 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup…
Cranberry Swirl Loaf
Ingredients 1/3 cup sugar 1 package (1/4 ounce) quick-rise yeast 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 to 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup water 1/2 cup milk 1/3 cup butter,…

Strawberry Muffins
Ingredients 2 cups all purpose flour, spooned into measuring cup and leveled-off with knife, plus 2 teaspoons more for tossing with strawberries 2 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon…

Kumquat-Cranberry Cornmeal Loaf
Juicy fruit bakes on the bottom of the bread, which is inverted to reveal a gorgeously jeweled top. Slice off a thin layer of the domed end to…

