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Fall Baking That Demands Butter 🧈
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Hi Reader, In our house, butter is both sacrament and argument fodder. The moment I drop a few knobs in a skillet, The One deftly fishes them out when I turn my back. Whenever he tries to be virtuous and make mashed potatoes with (blech) CHICKEN STOCK AND HERBS, I drop a whole stick into the pot while he's setting the table. He even proclaimed one night that his potato travesty was every bit as good as my beurre-soaked taters. I just politely nodded as I sniggered to myself. Suddenly, both of us are reaching for butter with abandon—softening it for cookies, cutting it into flour for biscuits, melting it into rivers for cinnamon rolls that waft through the whole house while baking. We stand there, foreheads against the oven door, peering through the window like two kids who’ve just discovered Santa’s stash. Butter Rules of Fall Baking
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Scottish ShortbreadThis authentic Scottish shortbread cookie recipe, made with only butter, sugar, flour, and salt, produces a tender, buttery, just-sweet-enough cookie destined to be the star of your holiday cookie platter.☞ Try this recipeNo-Knead Artisan Bread⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.91 from 122 votes
This no-knead 5-minute artisan bread show you how to make homemade bread in just minutes a day without fuss. Quick, easy, rustic, entirely doable even by novices, and the best loaf you'll ever bake.☞ Try this recipeBanana Bread by Cook's Illustrated⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.89 from 93 votes
This banana bread from Cook's Illustrated includes yogurt and walnuts for a scrumptiously moist, easy, classic, nutty quick bread. We consider it the best we've ever had.☞ Try this recipeBrown Butter Snickerdoodle Cake⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.60 from 5 votes A beautiful brown butter snickerdoodle cake might be the best snacking cake we've tried in a while. Full of nutty brown butter, sweet cinnamon sugar, tangy buttermilk, and perhaps the tastiest frosting yet, it's going to knock your socks off.☞ Try this recipeDrunken Apple Cake ~ Kuchen Borracho⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.84 from 12 votes This drunken apple cake, also known as kuchen borracho, is a unique dessert made with layers of creamy apple filling nestled between bands of tender, rum-spiked cake that has an almost custardy texture.☞ Try this recipeMonkey Bread from Zoë François⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.7 from 10 votes
This caramel monkey bread is a gooey sweet pull-apart cake made from blobs of brioche dough coated in a caramel sauce made with cinnamon, butter, and brown sugar. It's easy as can be to make from scratch in a loaf pan—and fun as heck to tease apart with your hands. It makes a great breakfast treat, snack, dessert, or even Christmas morning surprise.☞ Try this recipeCheese Danish⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.94 from 16 votes
This cheese Danish is made from store-bought puff pastry and a filling of cream cheese, sugar, egg, vanilla, and lemon zest. It's easy and perfect for Hanukkah and Christmas and Easter and weekends and, okay, any time.☞ Try this recipeCinnamon Rolls⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 from 13 votes
These homemade cinnamon rolls are filled with cinnamon and sweet honey butter and topped with cream-cheese icing (not shown in our photo). Here's how to make them.☞ Try this recipeGrape Focaccia
Grape focaccia, or Schiacciata All'uva, is a magnificent Tuscan tradition sometimes known as winemakers' focaccia that's homemade flatbread with a smattering of black grapes that's roasted until it creates a wondrously jammy sweetness. Here's how to make it.☞ Try this recipeSouthern Buttermilk Biscuits⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.86 from 34 votes
These Southern buttermilk biscuits are easy as heck to toss together from just three ingredients—self-rising flour, buttermilk, and butter—and turn out flaky and fluffy and just like grandma's. Maybe even better. Here's how to make them.☞ Try this recipe |
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