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Scratch Baking Made Simple

Welcome to Always Eat Dessert! Here you’ll find made-from-scratch recipes designed for busy people who love to bake. From cookies to quick breads, you'll discover detailed, easy-to-follow recipes for everyday life along with practical baking tips to help you whip up indulgent treats from scratch with confidence.

Mother's Day Brunch Recipes

Treat the mothers in your life (or yourself!) to a special Mother's Day brunch with these breakfast and bite-sized sweet treats!

  • Overhead view of hands splitting a muffin open above a tin of muffins.
    Mixed Berry Muffins with Cinnamon Streusel Topping
  • Close-up view of a cinnamon roll with purple icing split open on a white plate with a dish of blueberries and small white flowers.
    Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls
  • Angled view of plate of glazed petit fours topped with pansy flowers.
    Easy Homemade Petit Fours
  • Blueberry scones surrounded by fresh blueberries and topped with streusel and powdered sugar.
    Blueberry Muffin Scones

Latest Posts

Fresh from the oven! Don't miss these brand-spanking-new recipes and baking tips.

  • Cocktail glass with a light pink lemonade cocktail surrounded by fresh lilacs.
    Lilac Gin Lemonade
  • Small carrot cakes stacked with cream cheese frosting and topped with fresh chamomile flowers.
    Mini Carrot Cakes
  • Close up view of a sliced cookie cake decorated with vanilla frosting, pastel candies, and sprinkles.
    Easter Cookie Cake
  • A slice and forkful of coffee cake on a speckled plate.
    Buttermilk Coffee Cake

Reader Favorites

These tried-and-true recipes and baking tips are currently trending among Always Eat Dessert readers and bakers like you!

  • Close up view of a square of moist chocolate cake topped with chocolate frosting on a crumbled piece of parchment paper.
    Moist & Fudgy Chocolate Cake
  • Close up view of a partially-eaten slice of two-layer vanilla cake with vanilla frosting on a white plate with a fork.
    Moist & Fluffy Vanilla Cake
  • A slice of blueberry pie with a lattice crust on a white plate.
    Classic Blueberry Pie with Frozen Blueberries
  • Fork with a bite of cake along with a slice of cake on a white plate.
    Strawberry Vanilla Cake
Allison leaning over the kitchen counter piping frosting onto a cake.

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I'm Allison, the cookie-obsessed baker, recipe creator, and food photographer behind Always Eat Dessert.

Here you’ll find simple and scrumptious made-from-scratch recipes designed for busy people who love to bake. With easy-to-follow dessert recipes and practical baking tips, my goal is to help you satisfy your sweet tooth, stat!

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Favorite Cookie Recipes

Cookies are an obsession here at Always Eat Dessert, and these are some of the best recipes on the site!

  • Overhead view of cookies on a white background.
    No Chill Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • Close-up view of layered and stacked crinkled cookies.
    Chewy Chai Snickerdoodles
  • Overhead view of sugar cookies with buttercream frosting flowers on a marble surface.
    Soft and Cakey Sugar Cookies with Buttercream Frosting
  • Molasses cookies with crinkle tops stacked on top of each other.
    Old-Fashioned Molasses Crinkle Cookies

See More Cookie Recipes →

Must-Know Baking Tips

Develop confidence in the kitchen with these practical baking tips.

  • Box grater and peeled carrot on a wooden cutting board.
    How to Grate Carrots for Carrot Cake
  • Melted white chocolate in a double boiler.
    How to Melt White Chocolate in the Microwave or on the Stove
  • Close-up overhead view of an unbaked cinnamon roll on a white surface.
    How to Store & Reheat Cinnamon Rolls
  • Sliced brownies scattered on a crinkled piece of parchment paper.
    How to Store Brownies & Keep Them Fresh
  • Close up view of cream cheese frosting in a glass mixing bowl with electric beaters.
    How to Thicken Frosting
  • A hand holding an icing spatula and spreading chocolate frosting onto a round chocolate cake.
    How Much Frosting for Cakes & Cupcakes
  • Toddler hand reaching for a brownie.
    Baking with Toddlers: Tips & Recipes
  • overhead view of melting chocolate in a double boiler
    How to Melt Chocolate in a Double Boiler

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All Things Chocolate

If you're looking for indulgent chocolate dessert recipes, you came to the right place!

  • Side view of a bitten brownie stacked on a white marble surface.
    Chewy Fudgy Homemade Brownies
  • Close up overhead view of cookie bars on a wooden cutting board.
    Oatmeal Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars (Small Batch)
  • Mini brownie bites topped with piped whipped ganache on a white surface.
    Brownie Bites with Whipped Chocolate Ganache
  • Decorated bronuts on a blue surface.
    Homemade Bronuts (Brownie Donuts)

See More Chocolate Dessert Recipes →

Just Updated

These oldie-but-goodie recipe posts and baking tips have been recently updated!

  • Close-up side view of mini cakes filled with sweet orange marmalade and topped with white icing and purple flowers.
    Mini Naked Cakes with Sweet Orange Marmalade
  • A spoonful of chocolate pudding with crushed chocolate wafers and a sprig of fresh mint.
    Mint Chocolate Pudding Cups (Dirt Dessert)
  • Close up view of brown butter in a blue-handled skillet.
    How to Brown Butter
  • Close up view of a carrot cake cupcake topped with a swirl of cream cheese frosting on a speckled plate surrounded by carrots.
    Small Batch Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

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