Peanut Butter Blossoms

Chocolate and peanut butter lovers, these peanut butter blossoms are for you! Perfect for the holidays, they're festive, delicious, and easy to make.

Who else loves peanut butter blossoms?! These classic Christmas cookies have a peanut butter cookie base with a chocolate Hershey’s Kiss on top. I love how the rich chocolate melds into the soft, nutty, sugar-crusted cookies. I mean, nothing bad ever happens when peanut butter and chocolate team up. I’m sharing my go-to peanut butter blossoms recipe below. Easy and delicious, it’s one of my family’s favorite holiday treats. Peanut Butter Blossoms Ingredients Here’s what you’ll need to make this peanut butter blossoms recipe: Peanut butter, of course! I use natural creamy peanut butter to make this recipe. Make sure that…

TO THE RECIPE >>>>

Snickerdoodle Cookies

The BEST snickerdoodle recipe! These classic cookies are soft, chewy, and filled with sweet cinnamon flavor. Easy to make in 30 minutes!

Meet my favorite snickerdoodle recipe! These classic snickerdoodle cookies are soft and chewy in the middle and crisp around the edges. They’re buttery, sweet, and warmly spiced with cinnamon, and they have a delicious tangy flavor. Taste aside, I love this snickerdoodle recipe because it’s so simple to make. You can mix up the dough, bake the cookies, and have them ready to eat in under 30 minutes! It’s a great recipe to make for the holidays, but we also enjoy it year-round. I brought these cookies to a block party last summer, and they disappeared immediately! Snickerdoodle Ingredients Here’s…

TO THE RECIPE >>>>

Apple Pie Recipe

In this easy apple pie recipe, tender, cinnamon-spiced apples fill a flaky, buttery crust. Top it with vanilla ice cream for a mouthwatering fall dessert!

This apple pie recipe is hands down my favorite. It has a flaky all-butter crust and a flavorful filling of juicy, tender, cinnamon-spiced apples. Served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, it’s the ultimate dessert for Thanksgiving…or any occasion, really. I can never resist a second slice! I’ve been making this homemade apple pie recipe for my family for years, and I first shared it on the blog back in 2022. Since then, many readers have tried it and loved it. Ryne wrote, “Turned out amazing! One of the best I’ve had,” and Sue said, “Any time I need an…

TO THE RECIPE >>>>

Apple Pie Filling

Learn how to make apple pie filling from scratch! Sweet, tart, juicy, and warmly spiced, it's delicious in pies and on ice cream, pancakes, and more.

Once I started making this apple pie filling recipe, I knew I’d never fill an apple pie any other way. The apples come out with the perfect texture–tender, but not mushy–and they’re dripping with syrupy, cinnamon-spiced juices. If you’re making an apple pie this fall, I can’t recommend this filling highly enough. But even if you’re not making a pie, I still hope you’ll try this recipe. This homemade apple pie filling doesn’t need to hide inside a flaky, buttery crust to be a delicious treat. The soft, sweet-tart apples are fantastic on ice cream or yogurt, stirred into oatmeal, or…

TO THE RECIPE >>>>

Easy Pie Crust

Learn how to make pie crust with this easy pie dough recipe! It yields a flaky, buttery crust that's perfect for using in your favorite homemade pies.

Meet my best pie crust recipe! I tested and tweaked this recipe to perfection a few years ago, and now, it’s the only one I use. I love it because the crust comes out tender and flaky every time. Made with 100% butter, it also has a delicious buttery flavor. This pie crust recipe is easy to make. Adapted from J. Kenji López-Alt, it comes together in the food processor with 5 basic ingredients. Below, I’m sharing the complete recipe, plus step-by-step photos and tips. Even if you’re new to making pie crust, you can master this recipe. I hope you…

TO THE RECIPE >>>>

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Soft, chewy, and packed with gooey chocolate, these pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are a must-try fall treat. Made in 1 bowl and ready in 30 minutes!

These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are my favorite kind of baking recipe. They’re sooooo yummy, with a warmly spiced pumpkin flavor and a soft, chewy texture. (Need I mention the melty chocolate chips?) But they’re so easy too. These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies call for nine ingredients, come together in one bowl, and are ready in under 30 minutes. The next time you’re in the mood for a sweet fall treat, make a batch! I promise you won’t be disappointed. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe Ingredients Here’s what you’ll need to make this pumpkin chocolate chip cookies recipe: Pumpkin, of…

TO THE RECIPE >>>>

Apple Muffins

These apple muffins are moist, tender, and packed with juicy apple chunks. Crowned with a crunchy cinnamon crumble, they're the perfect fall treat.

On a crisp fall morning, these apple muffins really hit the spot. They’re moist, warmly spiced, and studded with tender chunks of apple. A sweet cinnamon crumble sits on top of them, offering a delicious crunchy contrast to their soft middles. Pair one with a hot cup of coffee, and you’ll have a hard time finding a more enticing autumn treat. I speak from experience. The temps dropped here late last week, just in time for the first day of fall. I made a batch of these apple muffins to celebrate, and I haven’t been able to resist eating one…

TO THE RECIPE >>>>

Cinnamon Apples

These sweet, spiced cinnamon apples are just as good for breakfast as they are for dessert. Serve them over oatmeal, pancakes, or ice cream!

Sweet, soft, and nicely spiced, these easy cinnamon apples taste like the inside of a warm apple pie. But unlike a pie, which requires hours of chilling and baking and cooling, this cinnamon apples recipe is ready in under 30 minutes. I love its simplicity. Its lack of crust, batter, or crumble topping allows it to be just as at home at breakfast as it is at dessert. It also means that this recipe is 100% about the apples. If you have a craving for cozy, apple-y fall flavor, there’s no easier or more satisfying way to indulge it than…

TO THE RECIPE >>>>

Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie

This peanut butter banana smoothie is thick, creamy, and packed with sweet and nutty flavor. Make it for an easy, delicious breakfast or snack!

This peanut butter banana smoothie is the kind of breakfast that makes you excited to get out of bed in the morning. It calls for 4 simple ingredients, it takes minutes to make, and it tastes so good that it could almost pass as dessert. The peanut butter, banana, and whole rolled oats make it thick and creamy, and they infuse it with the BEST sweet and nutty flavor. They also happen to add fiber, protein, potassium, and vitamin C, meaning that this delicious breakfast is a healthy one too. I think you’ll love it! Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie Recipe…

TO THE RECIPE >>>>

Zucchini Brownies

You won't taste the zucchini in this easy zucchini brownies recipe. It melts into the rich chocolate batter, making them amazingly gooey and moist.

As soon as I finish writing this post, I’m heading to the kitchen and making more of these zucchini brownies. It’s impossible for me to sit here, looking at photos of their glossy tops and gooey, chocolatey middles and NOT start to crave them. Tell me they’re tempting you too? The really fun thing about this zucchini brownies recipe is that even though is has 2 WHOLE CUPS of zucchini inside it, the zucchini is almost undetectable. It melts into the rich chocolate batter, giving the brownies an amazing moist and gooey texture. I’ll admit that they’re slightly cakier than…

TO THE RECIPE >>>>

Blueberry Cobbler

This easy blueberry cobbler recipe is a delicious showcase for summer fruit. A layer of juicy, jammy berries bubbles beneath a golden biscuit topping.

When life gives you blueberries, make blueberry cobbler! With a golden biscuit topping and jammy fruit filling, it’s just as delicious as blueberry pie, but it’s much simpler to make. I love this blueberry cobbler recipe because it puts the fresh fruit front and center. I only sweeten it lightly, letting the berries’ natural sweetness shine, and I skew heavy on the ratio of fruit to topping. This blueberry cobbler recipe features a thin layer of golden, buttery biscuits with lots of juicy blueberries bubbling underneath. Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream, and it’s absolute heaven. Blueberry Cobbler Recipe…

TO THE RECIPE >>>>
A food blog with fresh, zesty recipes.
Photograph of Jeanine Donofrio and Jack Mathews in their kitchen

Hello, we're Jeanine and Jack.

We love to eat, travel, cook, and eat some more! We create & photograph vegetarian recipes from our home in Chicago, while our shiba pups eat the kale stems that fall on the kitchen floor.