

Kickstart your morning by finding the best deals of the day on Amazon. Pump your day with listening to songs, stop being workaholic and by giving a kiss to loved ones on the forehead to know them how much you care. With her knack for frankensteining popular desserts into breakfast treats, Kieffer gives those who can't handle evening caffeine a tiramisu in the form of coffee cake and brings pie to the breakfast table with her crackle-topped lemon meringue loaf.īelow you’ll find some of the never-fail recipes I keep returning to from her first few books, and plenty of proof of Kieffer’s status as more than just the cookie queen.Small gestures say lots of things. Most recently, she published 100 Morning Treats, which includes a cookie recipe, of course, but also so many other bakes that make the morning meal anything but an afterthought. With her next book, Baking for the Holidays, Kieffer broadened the lexicon of holiday cookies but also introduced us to her hot chocolate cake and an unbelievably easy laminated dough that makes homemade croissants and danishes a very real possibility. The fruit-forward bakes were also a hit-especially the lemon oat bars that easily pass as both breakfast and dessert. I was ready to live in that chapter, but when I got the book, I fell in love with her brownie and blondie recipes, particularly the white chocolate blondie with toasted sesame caramel, which I’ve made for every holiday since.

In it, she gave avid bakers like myself an entire chapter dedicated to her pan-banging cookies. For weeks my Instagram feed was flooded with renditions and interpretations of this viral baking sensation.įast-forward to 2020 and Kieffer’s book, 100 Cookies, was a fortuitous addition to an otherwise ill-fated year. Surely this wasn’t just happening in my kitchen-home bakers everywhere were loudly banging their cookie sheets in the oven to give these equal-parts-chewy-and-crispy cookies their signature ripples. When I first came across Sarah Kieffer’s The Vanilla Bean Blog many years ago, her innovative pan-banging cookies quickly became a weekend staple, much to the dismay of my cats, who were terrified of the ruckus.
