Breads & Rolls

Almond Coffee Cake

Frozen bread dough rolled out, filled with sweetened cream cheese and white chips, braided, and glazed with almond icing.

Almond Croissants

Store-bought croissants split and spread inside and out with a creamy almond-and-lemon filling, then rebaked.

Amish Friendship Bread

The ten-day starter routine: stir daily, feed flour, sugar and milk twice, then divide into cups to pass along.

“This works well in muffin pans. I spray the paper cups with Pam so they don't stick. I also have made all three batches and froze the bread and muffins when I am ready to quit.”

Angel Biscuits

Biscuits leavened with yeast, baking powder and soda together, risen in a warmed oven before baking.

Best Blueberry Muffins

Muffins with cooked-down blueberry jam swirled into each top, finished with lemon sugar or an optional butter streusel.

Best Drop Biscuits

No rolling or cutting — melted butter is clumped into cold buttermilk, scooped with a measuring cup and baked hot at 475.

Best Homemade Cinnamon Rolls

Enriched yeast dough rolled up with cinnamon and brown sugar, cut into twelve, and glazed warm with cream cheese icing.

Blueberry Muffins

Nutmeg and vanilla flavor a plain butter batter, and the baked muffins get brushed with butter and sprinkled with sugar.

Blueberry Muffins with Crumb Topping

Eight large muffins made with oil instead of butter, filled to the top of the cups and covered in cinnamon crumb.

Blueberry Streusel Muffins

Buttermilk muffins with lemon zest under a thick cinnamon brown sugar streusel; the berries go in still frozen.

Bread Instructions

The baking half of the friendship bread cycle: leftover starter mixed with instant vanilla pudding, cinnamon and nuts, baked as two loaves.

Bread with Poppy Seeds

White cake mix and coconut pudding do the work here, stretched into three poppy seed loaves.

Breakfast Cake

Cake mix and vanilla pudding batter layered in a tube pan with cinnamon sugar and nuts, then finished with a butter-extract glaze.

Caramel Twists

An overnight refrigerator sweet dough, rolled with a cinnamon-sugar filling, cut into strips, twisted, and baked over a butter, syrup, brown sugar and walnut layer that becomes the sticky top when the pans are inverted.

Cinnamon Roll Cake

Sheet cake batter swirled with a brown sugar cinnamon topping and drizzled with powdered sugar glaze while still warm.

Cinnamon Swirl Bread

Enriched yeast loaf rolled around a cinnamon sugar filling, misted with water so the swirl holds together, and baked to 185 degrees.

“1/2 cup raisins can be kneaded into the dough when it is turned out on the counter.”

Cinnamon-Rhubarb Muffins

Sour cream and melted butter muffin batter with cinnamon and diced rhubarb, meant to be finished with cinnamon sugar.

Coffeecake Muffins

Food-processor muffins with a cinnamon filling buried in the center and pecan streusel on top, baked in liners.

Dinner Rolls

Egg-and-butter rolls kneaded in a mixer, shaped into two cake pans, then refrigerated a day or two before their final rise.

Dutch Letters

Puff pastry strips rolled around ropes of almond paste filling, sugared on top and baked; they freeze well.

Fluffy Rolls

Scalded milk and oil dough mixed the night before and left to sit on the counter, then shaped and risen two hours before baking.

Frozen Rolls

Frozen dinner rolls layered with dry butterscotch pudding, brown sugar and butter, left to rise overnight and baked in a bundt pan.

“This is like monkey bread.”

German Apple Cake

Thick oil-and-egg batter stirred by hand with cinnamon and nuts, loaded with four cups of sliced apples, and finished with cream cheese frosting.

Glazed Apple Daisy

Canned cinnamon rolls halved and arranged into a pinwheel, spread with apple and walnuts, and drizzled with orange-spiked icing.

“190 calories and 7 grams of fat.”

Herb Biscuits

Food-processor biscuits carrying Havarti, Parmesan and cottage cheese, with dill, lemon and a pinch of cayenne.

Honey-Wheat Dinner Rolls

Sixteen mixer-kneaded rolls of half whole wheat flour, risen twice in a 13x9 pan and brushed with honey butter.

Hungarian Sweet Rolls

Rich sour cream and butter pastry chilled overnight, rolled on powdered sugar, and cut into wedges rolled up crescent style.

Lemon-Blueberry Muffins (Mackinac Island)

Sour cream muffins studded with frozen blueberries, brushed with melted butter and finished in lemon sugar.

Moravian Sugar Cake

Yeast dough enriched with instant potato flakes, pressed into a 13x9 and baked under a crumbled brown sugar, butter and cinnamon topping.

No Fat Muffins

Yogurt and skim milk stand in for the butter and eggs; blueberries or grated apple go in if you want them.

Non-sticky Goop for Rolls

Brown sugar, butter and corn syrup boiled into a caramel you pour in the pan before setting cinnamon rolls on top to rise.

Oatmeal Bread

Bread machine loaf sweetened with molasses, everything loaded in order and run on the white bread setting.

Oatmeal Rolls

Dinner rolls from a brown sugar oatmeal dough, punched down twice before shaping and baking.

Oil Buns

Overnight yeast dough made with oil instead of butter, mixed in the afternoon, shaped at night, baked the next morning.

Old Fashioned Oatmeal Bread

Rolled oats scalded in milk make two soft loaves, brushed with egg white and sprinkled with more oats before baking.

“I use this recipe in the bread machine for Runzas. Put ingredients into the bread machine, and set to dough method. When done, remove and make 12-14 balls of dough, roll out into a rectangle, and place about 1 cup of meat mixture into the center and wrap like a Christmas gift! Bake about 30 minutes. This freezes well.”

Onion Dill Bread

Bread machine loaf enriched with cottage cheese and sour cream, seasoned with dried onion and dill seed.

Pan Dulce

Sweet Mexican rolls raised from a yeast starter, each capped with a cinnamon-sugar butter paste that bakes into a crackled crust.

Pecan Pie Muffins

Five ingredients — pecans, brown sugar, flour, eggs and melted butter — baked into nine muffins with the texture of pecan pie filling.

Red Lobster Cheese Biscuits

Bisquick drop biscuits with cheddar in the dough, brushed with garlic butter as soon as they come out.

Suzy's Coffee Cake

A butter and egg batter spread in a jellyroll pan and topped with canned pie filling or cooked-down sour cherries.

Sweet Roll Dough

Base yeast dough with milk, eggs and shortening, kneaded and given two rises — for cinnamon rolls, dinner rolls or coffee cakes.

Unbelievable Banana Bread

Weight Watchers banana loaf that trades part of the butter for applesauce and half the sugar for Splenda.

Walnut-Pear Sour Cream Cake

Sour cream batter layered with sliced pears and a cinnamon-walnut filling, finished with butter crumb topping and baked in a springform pan.

Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread

Two loaves built on an overnight bread-flour biga and an overnight whole wheat and wheat germ soaker, baked with steam over a stone.

Zucchini Bread

Two loaves of oil-based bread with grated zucchini, three teaspoons each of vanilla and cinnamon, and a cinnamon-sugar crust on top.