baking

I love baking. I grew up in a household where my mother was constantly making loaves of homemade raisin bread,…

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Have you ever noticed how the best gifts are usually things you never asked for or never even knew that you wanted?…

Honestly, I did not think that judging The Takeout’s First Annual Holiday Cookie Contest would be as difficult as it…

At The Takeout, our motto is “Food is Delicious.” We want you to wring maximum enjoyment out of every meal, whether…

I love me an oatmeal cookie. Sure, sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies are divine, I’ll grant you that. But…

I did not grow up in a cookie-baking household. Slice-and-bake Toll House cookies were the norm, and I still think…

Update, December 3, 2020: Only 33 hours left to submit to The Takeout’s 2020 holiday cookie contest! Consider this…

For a seemingly simple baked good, holiday cookies sure can be tricky. Even the most confident cake bakers can be…

I’ve been watching a lot of early American history documentaries lately, because they reassure me that as bad as…

I vividly remember the night I made my first from-scratch pie, crust and all. It was November 4, 2008, Election…

You probably know the feeling of making it halfway through a cookie recipe and realizing, with so many steps left to…

We put a lot of ourselves into our cakes. Cakes just feel like more of an occasion unto themselves than cookies or…

A little over a year ago, I shared my recipe for my beloved Brown Butter Cinnamon Rolls on The Takeout. Since that…

Remember those great early-pandemic days last spring when bags of flour and yeast suddenly became precious items?…

In 2014, four women gathered in a London church with the idea of teaching women at a local homeless hostel how to…

In honor of Canadian Thanksgiving, The Takeout is celebrating the nation’s culinary contributions all week long. We…

My favorite dessert is unequivocally rice pudding. I love it so much that I refuse to make it, because I have…

It’s the first week of fall, which means I’m legally obligated to give you a recipe that’s warm and cozy and oh so…

There are some bakers who believe that the more complicated a recipe is, the better the result will be. And then…