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Dessert, Anyone?

Our favorite cures for your sweet tooth.

Freezer Cookie Dough Recipe by Wood and Spoon blog. This is a simple recipe for make-ahead cookie dough that bakes from frozen and can be stored in advance. Adapt the recipe to include your favorite chocolate, nuts, and other fillings. These cookie dough balls make a great gift to share with people and an excellent last-minute dessert! Learn how on thewoodandspoon.com.

Freezer Cookie Dough

Ted Lasso Shortbread Bars by Wood and Spoon blog. These are English biscuits inspired by the hit TV show Ted Lasso. These shortbread cookie bars are made with butter, brown sugar, and powdered sugar. They require less than 10 ingredients and 5 minutes of prep time, and they are perfect for for Ted Lasso viewing party! Find the how to and recipe on thewoodandspoon.com

Ted Lasso Shortbread Bars

Valentine Sugar Cookie Cake by Wood and Spoon blog. This is a double layer cookie cake make with soft sugar cookie dough and a buttery filling. With a heart shape cutout, this is the perfect dessert for two (or a crowd!) to make on Valentine's Day. Check out the simple tutorial on thewoodandspoon.com

Valentine Sugar Cookie Cake

Marbled Chocolate Chip Cookies by Wood and Spoon blog. These are cookies made with a vanilla and a chocolate dough swirled together to make one marble cookie! These are great for people who love a little brownie and a little cookie! Find out how to make these make ahead desserts on thewoodandspoon.com.

Marbled Chocolate Chip Cookies

Dessert, Anyone?

Our favorite cures for your sweet tooth

Easy Chewy Brownies by Wood and Spoon blog. This is a simple one-bowl recipe that makes a great homemade substitute for box brownie mix! These have a crackled top, fudgy insides, and loads of chocolate espresso flavor. Learn more and how easy it is on thewoodandspoon.com

Easy Chewy Brownies

Cinnamon Streusel Bread by Wood and Spoon blog. This is a simple fluffy coffee cake loaf filled with a cinnamon brown sugar filling and topped with a crumbly streusel. The end result is a yummy quick bread that tastes great as breakfast or dessert. Learn how to make this make ahead brunch bread on thewoodandspoon.com.

Cinnamon Streusel Bread

Ashley's Mac's Strawberry Cake by Wood and Spoon blog. This is the recipe for the famous strawberry layer cake from Alabama chain restaurant. The recipe comes from Ashley McMakin's new book! Learn how to make a yummy pink strawberry celebration cake on thewoodandspoon.com

Ashley Mac’s Strawberry Cake

Ted Lasso Shortbread Bars by Wood and Spoon blog. These are English biscuits inspired by the hit TV show Ted Lasso. These shortbread cookie bars are made with butter, brown sugar, and powdered sugar. They require less than 10 ingredients and 5 minutes of prep time, and they are perfect for for Ted Lasso viewing party! Find the how to and recipe on thewoodandspoon.com

Ted Lasso Shortbread Bars

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The kitchen tutorials and how-to's we can't live without

Half Birthday Cake Tutorial and Recipe by Wood and Spoon blog. Learn how to transfer a simple single layer vanilla cake into a fun celebratory half birthday cake! The recipe for this simple vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream is a great way to celebrate everyday occasions like half birthdays. Find the recipe and how to on the woodandspoon.com

A Half Birthday Cake Tutorial & 6 Months with Her Daily Bread!

Homemade Sprinkles by Wood and Spoon blog. Here's the how to on making sprinkles from scratch! Follow one of three ways to make hand-dyed jimmies, nonpareils, and flaked sugar confetti. Use these edible decorations to glitter cakes, cookies, cupcakes and more! Find the recipes and learn DIY from scratch here on thewoodandspoon.com

YOU NEED TO KNOW: How to Make Homemade Sprinkles

How to Stack a Layer Cake by Wood and Spoon blog. Learn the tips and how to for stacking pretty naked cakes and layer cakes from scratch homemade! Step by step tutorial with photos for learning can decorating for beginners. Learn about leveling cakes, crumb coats, filling a cake, piping borders, and more. On thewoodandspoon.com

YOU NEED TO KNOW: How to Stack a Layer Cake

How to Make Pate a Choux and Coconut Cream Pie Puffs by Wood and Spoon. This is a step by step photographic tutorial on how to prepare French puff pastry with eggs and flour to make cream puffs profiteroles eclairs etc. Coconut cream pie custard filling is stuffed in the bites and topped with white chocolate and toasted coconut. For more on how to make this bite sized delicate fancy dessert read the recipe on thewoodandspoon.com

YOU NEED TO KNOW: How to Make Pâte à Choux (And Coconut Cream Pie Puffs!)

You need to know

The kitchen tutorial and how-to's we can't live without

You Need to Know How to Whip Egg Whites and Make Meringue Cookies. This is a tutorial on whipping egg whites to firm, stiff, soft, or foamy peaks and how to make a meringue! Learn how to make easter resurrection cookies with pecans and how to troubleshoot what went wrong with your egg whites. Why did they defeat, not fluff up, not whip, etc. Learn how to use up egg whites in this tutorial post on thewoodandspoon.com by Kate Wood

YOU NEED TO KNOW: How to Whip Egg Whites (and Make Meringue Cookies!)

You Need to Know How to Make Caramel by Wood and Spoon Blog. This is a tutorial with visual cues on how to caramelize sugar. Learn how to know when caramel is done, when to pull caramel off the heat, and how to prevent a crystallized, grainy caramel mess! Learning about caramel is an essential baking skill that you can master today! Read more here on thewoodandspoon.com by Kate Wood caramel sauce, salted, spun sugar, drizzle

You Need to Know: How to Make Caramel

You Need to Know How to Make Ganache and Homemade Chocolate Truffles by The Wood and Spoon Blog by Kate Wood. This simple tutorial will teach you the ins and out of preparing ganache from bittersweet , milk, semisweet, dark, or white chocolate. From there, learn to make a few different types of truffles including coconut, orange, coffee, peppermint, hazelnut, Nutella, peanut butter, and sea salt. This recipe and how to will teach you how to make pourable glaze, whipped, thick and fudgy filling ganache, and more. Find the recipe and learn how to make homemade candy for Valentine's Day on thewoodandspoon.com

YOU NEED TO KNOW: How to Make Ganache (and Homemade Chocolate Truffles!)

Let's Get Cozy

Settle in with our winter favorites

20 Recipes to Bake in 2023 from Wood and Spoon blog. These are 20 of the best baked treats, sweets, and desserts with everything from chocolate chip cookies, layer cakes, pound cake loaves, ice cream, pies, and more. Learn how to make easy simple baking as a new year's resolution on thewoodandspoon.com.

20 Recipes to Make in 2023 (and a Giveaway!)

Brown Butter Bourbon Chess Pie by Wood and Spoon blog. This is a brown sugar, brown butter, and bourbon Southern chess pie. this is a gooey pie with a flaky homemade crust. The pie serves a crowd, is perfect for holidays and fall, and finishes with flakes salt. Learn how to make homemade chess pie on thewoodandspoon.com

Brown Butter Bourbon Chess Pie

Snickerdoodle Sandwich Cookies by Wood and Spoon Blog. These are soft and chewy snickerdoodle cookies stuffed with a brown sugar cinnamon buttercream filling. These cookies are simple and made in the traditional way but with the added yum from extra filling. Learn how simple and fun this recipe is on thewoodandspoon.com- perfect for fall, holidays, and feeding a crowd!

Snickerdoodle Sandwich Cookies

S'mores Hi-Hat Cupcakes by Wood and Spoon blog. These are graham cracker cupcakes topped with a marshmallow topping and dipped in a milk chocolate shell. These cupcakes taste like s'mores and are a beautiful way to feature chocolate magic shell. Learn how to make them on thewoodandspoon.com

S’mores Hi-Hat Cupcakes

LET'S GET COZY

Comforting desserts
perfect for fall

No-Churn Cinnamon Maple Swirl Ice Cream by Wood and Spoon. This simple homemade ice cream is the perfect addition to holiday and thanksgiving pies. A vanilla bean base is swirled with a stovetop maple and cinnamon sauce that is made with brown sugar. This ice cream takes less than 10 minutes to make and will taste terrific served as an accompaniment or just by itself. Learn how to make no churn ice cream on thewoodandspoon.com by Kate Wood.

No-Churn Cinnamon Maple Swirl Ice Cream

Peanut Brittle Cookies By Wood and Spoon Blog. These peanut brittle cookies feature a peanut butter dough, chopped homemade peanut brittle, and peanut butter chips. These chewy, sweet and salty cookies are a peanut butter lover’s dream! Find out how simple homemade peanut brittle is and get the recipe for these yummy fall cookies by Thewoodandspoon.com

Peanut Brittle Cookies

Pumpkin Swirl Bread

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