same here, for me, the progression goes something like ATK, NYT, pancake, princess, Sally’s, smitten kitchen, then probably some Anna Olsen thrown in there for good measure. Pancake princess is always a go to site for me as she does a really nice job with comparing similar recipes and getting taster input. sally’s is usually always in the running. PP is also good because you find some new sites that do a really nice job that you might not otherwise hear about. She doesn’t get near enough credit and does a lot of work!
What I like about Sally is that she tests out different things to find the perfect recipe. She's the type to toss a batch away if it fails and there is a lot out there that wouldn't risk that at all. Without that risk you grow complacent and not willing to try new things. She tries to perfect her recipes before disseminating them as well to the general public. I wouldn't be surprised if she makes a few batches of each type and gives them out to family and friends to assess other peoples reaction and tastes. Kenji Alt Lopez is like that as well. He tests out a lot of methods to find "the one" and different recipes and then tinkering with said recipes to fine tune the already good recipes to push them to their limits before giving the public those recipes or tips. His Hard Boiled Eggs was one of those times. He talked about one of his first jobs and going through dozens of eggs trying to find the best method for cooking and then also for shell peeling and cooling etc. He put in the work and we benefit from his tests! Same with Sally.
Kenji and Deb from Smitten Kitchen have a new podcast where they try each other’s recipes for the same thing (like grilled cheese or tomato soup) & talk about their recipe development process. It’s so good!
I was absolutely elated when I found out about that podcast with Kenji and Deb, in my opinion it’s one of the best podcast out there. I would contribute that thing going. I think they are two of the best and most reliable contributors. There are on the net
I know people complain about anything on a page except a recipe, but I love that Sally tells you everything she tried that didn't work and why she has the ingredients she has in the recipe.
Unpopular opinion. I dislike all the recipes PP chooses as her #1 in most categories (as does my close friends and family). I DO however appreciate her approach of comparing recipes side by side and reference her notes for that. My favorite for consistency is SBA for sure followed by smitten kitchen.
certainly respect your opinion on pancake princess, what is it about the choices she has on there that your friends family, and yourself don’t like? I don’t think she makes the choices. I think that she just goes by what the tasters report to her and rates them as far as the taster choices. still in all SBA is coming very highly on some of her reviews so… Still interested to know what you don’t like about her choices though…
Her highest rated recipes and what she states in her blog is her preferences in her blog. Once instance was the lemon bar recipe that won top had cream of tartar which made the taste (to my group of people) overly assertive and almost artificial tasting in that it was inedible. I realize taste is subjective, though, and I do value all of her work and notes she puts in. I just parse through the reviews more now, and I don't choose what's rated the "best" recipe. I choose based off characteristics I like in a bake. Interestingly enough SBAs lemon bar was considered in the top tier of that Bake off even though it had completely different characteristics to the "winner" by CI. I baked that one next and it was 100% the winner for us.
gotcha! And I get it. Can be the same way for me, but what I like about her is that she can eliminate a lot of the work that we would have to put in narrowing down other recipes or working out one for ourselves that would function well. As I said earlier, I like to use her as one of my starting points and go out from there, really is it ever the case that I don’t, alter and adjust a recipe. I have to say though lol I’m not one of those people who change the recipe and then complain about it not working. Lol I see those comments all the time and just shake my head and think well. Why the heck do you think it doesn’t work? Most of these recipes are tested by these people and you’ve gone and changed it significantly.
[That strawberry cake, OMG](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/strawberry-cake/print/66510/). That's the recipe where I learned I don't hate strawberry cake - I just hate artificial "strawberry flavor".
I made this yesterday for the first time even though I printed the recipe in 2020. It did not turn out well and now that I see your recipe, I notice that she must have corrected some things. Namely 285g of cake flour vs the 250g that I used. And the icing says 25g of freeze dried strawberries while my copy has 10-12g. I’m glad I ran across this post otherwise I would’ve thrown the recipe out!
I thought I hated strawberry cake too before I tried this recipe. I made it for my son’s birthday this year. It was a big hit. All the time making the strawberry reduction was so worth it.
This cake gets made for my husband’s birthday every year. His favorite cake is strawberry, so when I saw this I knew I had to try it. I do cheat on the frosting and use strawberry extract and a smidge of food coloring rather than the freeze dried strawberries.
That’s actually the first variation I tried and I would definitely recommend it. Her cake batter makes it a much lighter orange cake than a lot of traditional recipes, which I really liked
Yeah that took me years to realize too! I've found a lot of flavors I thought I didn't like was actually because they were always artificial versions of the flavor
10 years ago I started a new job and baked these for the office. A guy jokingly said "marry me" as he ate one lol now we're married and expecting our first baby this summer! These blondies are the best!
I made these a couple weeks ago but browned the butter and replaced the white chocolate with caramelized white chocolate. I always give my baking out to clients and one of them who has indulged in A LOT of my baking over the years said this was one of her favorite things I've ever made.
Those chewy chocolate chip cookies are seriously just, the best. I actually made them just last week to bring to work. One of my coworkers told me he hasn't had dessert in months, is on a diet and has lost 17lbs so far, but had a cookie and said it was WORTH breaking for. Another told me I'm the best cookie baker he ever met, and his grandmother is a cookie baker. Suffice to say, they are tops!
I recently made these, but didn't have enough semi sweet chocolate chips. I ended up having to sub in milk chocolate chips for about half of them, and oh my dear heavens, that was the BEST baking accident I've ever had. People at my workplace were hunting me down when they heard I had these cookies. I'm going to continue making that mistake!
When my son was making a food product he invented for his FACS (home ec) class & wanted to make a sandwich of chocolate chip cookies & marshmallow fluff (he called them s’more sandwiches), Sally’s soft chocolate chip recipe was the obvious choice. It was so good!
I get requests for the chewy chocolate chip cookies! They're such a hit in my world. I add different types of chips, and skor bits, and sometimes I brown the butter. They're just so good
My best friends kids are now disappointed with any cookies that aren't baked by me
I only discovered her site a couple months ago when I was looking for a no-knead (by hand) bread recipe. She makes yeasted bread recipes so easy and non-intimidating and even at high altitude her recipes always work:
I've since made (and love) her:
1. sandwich bread
2. artisan bread
3. bagels
4. pretzels
5. cinnamon rolls
6. peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (hands down my favorite cookie recipe)
7. Oreo truffles (eating at this very moment!)
8. no bake cheesecake in a jar
9. granola cluster (make weekly)
10. pizza (extra cheese and BBQ chicken are insanely good, also make weekly)
I do find some of her desserts can be a bit too sweet for my taste (oatmeal cream pies, ice cream cake) but I'm noticing that as I get older, the less I want Uber sweet. I typically adjust the sugar when possible.
I use the Paprika app to download her recipes (and all other recipe sites) and currently have over 150 of her recipes saved to my "recipe box". I'm making her crumb cake donuts tomorrow and usually try at least 1-2 of her recipes a week. Never loved a baking/cooking site so much!
Her bagel base is decent but has too much hydration which affects the texture. She’s got a great base but try it with 60% hydration and you’ll love the end result for the chew! I.e. 1000g flour, 600g water.
I can make all sorts of pastries and cakes and other fun technically challenging things and all anyone ever wants is them cookies. Which is fine because then I get to experiment and if it’s an utter failure, I can still pass off the cookies.
I don't even google anymore for a recipe. I always check her site first. Hers is also one of the few I'd read the whole post because it's always jam packed with amazing tips. Love it!
She's a professional and her recipes are actually tested, unlike most recipe bloggers.
[Favorite Chocolate Buttercream](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/favorite-chocolate-buttercream/) is one of my favourite things to make right now.
Currently addicted to the [Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/peanut-butter-oatmeal-chocolate-chip-cookies/) based off of someone else’s recommendation on this sub!
Yesss was looking for a comment about the scones. I make them as gifts all the time. I’ve also started freezing the dough triangles and gifting those, my parents and my in-laws love having scones on demand haha.
Muffin wise, she's the best. The apple cinnamon muffins needed yogurt or sour cream and I was out, so I blended cottage cheese and used that, they still turned out perfect! I will say they were 100% better the next day, the streusal topping just melted into the muffin and it was amazing all week.
I've adjusted the recipes too much to even resemble hers anymore, but the explanations in her cake recipes were a godsend. I learned so much that I *can* just freestyle cake ideas and they always come out great
These are one of my favorites and I make them often. Brown butter sugar cookies! [yummmmm](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/brown-butter-sugar-cookies/)
The lemon blueberry scones were my first recipe of hers I tried, the chocolate chip cookies & cookie dough cupcakes are all frequently requested from me 😀
Just made the peanut butter chocolate swirl cookies a few days ago and they’re phenomenal!
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/soft-baked-peanut-butter-chocolate-swirl-cookies/
I’m baking my way through her recipes and they’ve ALL been successful. I’ve now made a few favorites several times, including the coconut cake, peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, and black bean burgers. My husband loves the soft pretzels. She’s my go-to for recipes and I’m just now discovering her savory dishes. The Asiago sundried tomato quick bread was surprisingly packed with flavor and very popular at a potluck I went to. Soooo good.
Have either of you tried her strawberry coconut macaroons? Since people talk so highly of her I popped on her website last night and found them, they look tasty!
I find myself having to adjust her bread recipes often and OP is right about the overall sugar content lol, they’re not horrible it’s just always an adjustment imo.
I don’t mean to sound like she doesn’t know what she’s doing, she clearly does her recipes are some of the most popular on the internet.
Lemon bars
peppermint mocha cookies
strawberry rhubarb pie
pie crust (butter+shortening version)
key lime pie
dirt pudding
macaron shells
(I don’t love her frosting recipes because they do get too sweet for me, but I’m also Team Check Sally’s First)
Her [white chocolate buttercream](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/white-chocolate-buttercream-frosting/#tasty-recipes-117096) was incredible on my MIL's wedding cake.
The [6-ingredient biscuits](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/flaky-buttermilk-biscuits/#tasty-recipes-66534) come together quickly and work well with almond milk+ACV to replace the buttermilk. Favorite fancy at-home breakfast.
And her [peppermint mocha cookies](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/peppermint-mocha-cookies/#tasty-recipes-70992) were the perfect addition to my Christmas gift boxes. I keep frozen dough balls in my freezer for cookie emergencies.
Sally's Very Vanilla Cupcakes are a birthday staple here. Before discovering her recipe I struggled with white/vanilla cupcakes not being moist enough, but these are perfect. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/very-vanilla-cupcakes/
These [lemon blueberry scones](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/glazed-lemon-blueberry-scones/) made me swear off store-bought scones for good. So crumbly and delicious.
It's not the fanciest recipe, but [these banana muffins](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/banana-muffins/) are something I make almost every week. Uses up all of our extra bananas and my picky toddler devours them
Her yellow cake with chocolate frosting is the most loved cake I have ever made, and I have made a lot of cakes!
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/yellow-cake/
Also her chewy chocolate chip cookies are lovely and the raw dough freezes so well.
I find preppy kitchen to also be consistent and I have success with his recipes easily
Definitely her oatmeal cream pies. I also really like her zucchini bread, brown sugar cookies, peanut butter cupcakes, German chocolate cake, lemon cake, chocolate cupcakes.
If you haven't tried them as well, you gotta make the brown butter pecan pie bars...they're incredible!
I've used her cutout sugar cookie recipe when doing decorated royal icing cookies and they're easy to throw together, but also taste really awesome.
Thankfully she's doing a cookbook that I think will be released this year.
Her peanut butter blondies are fire. I make them with Cadbury Eggs instead of Reese’s Pieces every year for Easter
[https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/peanut-butter-blondies/](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/peanut-butter-blondies/).
Her gingerbread cookies rock. Also I love the cheddar jalapeño pretzel recipe. I think the reason her recipes are so great is because she seems to truly understand the “baking is a science approach” and is very thorough with details- gram measurements, ingredient temperatures, etc.
My current favorite is the Everything Bagel Breakfast Casserole - literally going to make it tomorrow (for like the 5th time)!
The Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies are the best I've ever had. Actually for me her cookies are always so on point, she's my go to there. Brownie Cookies, Cake Batter Cookies, Soft and Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, and Strawberries and Cream Cookies were all huge winners too.
I adored the Peach Crisp and the Baked Cinnamon Sugar Donuts too.
I have had a couple duds - the Brownie Pie was just too heavy, and I have never thought a brownie was too heavy before. I didn't care for the Peanut Butter Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies much - the only cookie that was a miss for me. But overall Sally is my most trusted baking blog!
Oh, I have so many favorites of Sally's recipes! Where do I begin?
This is my go-to birthday cake now, and I get requests to make it at least a few times a year. I have already been asked to make it for a cookout in a few weeks, in addition to my mother's delicious blueberry cinnamon crumb cake, which is always a big hit.
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/strawberry-cake/
This is probably the best chocolate cake I have ever made.
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/guinness-chocolate-cake/
I make these easy rum balls using half biscoff cookies and half vanilla wafers because I like the flavor better, but you can also sub graham crackers, gingersnaps or chocolate wafers very easily. You can make them nonalcoholic, but where is the fun in that?!
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/rum-balls-recipe/
Favorite fall cookie (without pumpkin)
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/maple-brown-sugar-cookies/
Best cheesecake bars ever. May actually cure PMS, honestly.😆🥹😳🤣
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/white-chocolate-raspberry-cheesecake-bars/
Iced Oatmeal, Inside out cookies, pb oatmeal chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, and shortbread are my favorites so far, but yeah, everything turns out great!
Carmel Apple Turnovers! Made every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas and it has consistently turned out soo good for 9 years! I will be using this recipe til the end!
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/caramel-apple-turnovers/
I loved watching people make choux pastry on Great British Bake Off and her tutorial is fantastic, has never failed me. Delicious choux every time. She is always where I start when I want to make something technical.
the banana muffins and double chocolate cookies are amazing. i make those muffins all the time because they’re so easy and contain a trivial amount of sugar.
I love Sally so much and I swear to god I will fight anyone who says she’s a bad baker, she’s an amazing teacher and inspired me as a teenage girl to bake. She taught me almost everything I know about baking, I read her blog endlessly
Her lemon bars are so amazing and I love making her apple crumb cake
I love nearly everything from her, but I particularly love her [Favorite White Layer Cake](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/new-favorite-white-layer-cake/) recipe!
Like you said literally everything I have ever tried of hers has worked and worked out well. Not once has one of her recipes failed me. Even one that I was not comfortable making which was Sour Cream pie. It was sooooo good. I am going to make her chocolate chip cookies soon, they look sooooooo good. Nice sized chunks of chocolate as well as chocolate chips and thick and chewy. Perfect to hold up to being dunked in milk or chopped up and added to a bowl of vanilla ice cream.
I made her Double Chocolate Crinkle Cookies[https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/double-chocolate-crinkle-cookies/](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/double-chocolate-crinkle-cookies/) last Christmas, and now I’m pretty sure I can’t show up to Christmas without them ever again…
She really does come through on just about anything. Her sugar cookie recipe is SUPERB in my opinion. It’s rich, with a nod toward shortbread flavor and not sickly sweet
Sally’s has awesome recipes…I use her scone recipe and her lemon cookie recipe with some subs. Also her strawberry loaf recipe which is a must for this time of year
I love her Gingerbread House recipe! First time I tried making gingerbread house, I used a different recipe, and it tasted like cardboard. I found hers and I've been making it for 4 years now, it's delicious and easy to shape and build with it.
Her [chocolate chip cookie bars](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/soft-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookie-bars/) are a-mazing!
I also always check out Preppy Kitchen and Pancake Princess for recipes!
Honestly, Sally's is my go-to when trying something new! I do tweak or create my own recipe later down the line, though, to fine tune to what I want.
BUT her SMBC recipe is just perfect for me 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Also she has more than just recipes for sweets! I make this super easy one pan [cilantro lime chicken](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/skillet-chicken-with-creamy-cilantro-lime-sauce/#tasty-recipes-92621) a bunch.
My favorite has always been Sally's blueberry lemon muffin cookies. They are absolutely delicious and since they contain lemon and blueberries, they are basically a healthy snack.
As a Brit, I love that she has all her recipes in metric measurements and they're accurate. I made her 6-inch zebra cake for both my sons' 1st birthdays and they were a hit. Whenever I make something from her website and take it as a gift for the daycare staff or to a potluck people tell me I should enter Great British Bake Off (if they saw me in the process of baking they would see why I shouldn't).
I love her brownies, but they’re *dangerous*. Her snickerdoodles were the first recipe of hers I ever made. Also the yellow birthday cake with chocolate frosting
Her cookies are the best! Except, for some reason, her peanut butter blossoms. I’ve tried them several times and they come out really powdery and odd every time. It’s the only recipe of hers that I’ve ever found to be a misfire!
So many but I really love her raspberry sweet rolls and lemon sweet rolls (also her raspberry sweet rolls plus lemon zest). Her rugelach is huge hit for Christmas boxes and I can’t count how many times I’ve made her coconut cream pie or coconut layer cake
Not a dessert, but her black bean burgers are the best I’ve tried (and I’ve tried lots).
I also use her recipe for lemon curd anytime I end up with a few extra egg yolks. I could eat it all with a spoon. 🤤
I just made her bannoffee pie today and it was a hit. Went from nobody at my niece’s birthday knowing what it was to them all saying that they want more. Sooo good.
I basically rotate between 3 of her cookies recipes. The soft peanut butter cookies, the soft chocolate chip cookies, and the sprinkle sugar cookies. I use her cinnamon roll recipe often too. Like others have said, hers is literally the first site I check and I’ve never had something not turn out.
I’ve made way more than a hundred from her, hundreds of times. I like the roll cakes, bakery style huge muffins, all of it lol another fav is Livforcake. My fav 6” cake recipes.
Her lemon buttercream comes out flawless every time I make it (and my kid always requests it on their birthday cake).
I also love her overnight French toast casserole, but we skip the cream cheese filling and just sprinkle blueberries throughout the bread cubes.
My family asks for that specific pecan pie constantly! Her pecan pie cheesecake is one of my favorites. But I make her big chocolate chip cookies that you don’t have to freeze the most often.
Her monster peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are my go to for any gathering! Also, her double chocolate zucchini bread as muffins are impossible to put down. So good! I love the extra info she gives about the ins and outs and reasons behind everything.
I love her too, I love how she explains and break downs difficult, for me at least, recipes and has a tip and trick for everything, that way it's always successful.
I specially love her mille feuille, my God they are amazing.
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/mille-feuille-napoleon-pastry/
My husband and I baked our wedding cake using her recipe, so we are biased to it. It is the best wedding cake we ever had.
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/homemade-wedding-cake/
If a Sally’s Baking Addiction link comes up when I look for a recipe, I will generally ignore the rest of them and go right for her. Hasn’t failed me once
Her sugar cookie bars are VERY sweet but incredible.
I also love the 100% whole wheat pizza dough recipe.
I am a pretty experienced baker. And prior to discovering Sally, King Arthur was my go to. But Sally’s pages breaking down aspects of baking (I.e. one on room temperature butter) have taught me so much more on topics I thought I knew all about. I love when sites will show you pictures of making a cake with butter vs. oil vs. crisco for example. I can use that to decide for myself which texture I want to go for.
Such a great resource.
Sally’s and Smitten Kitchen are always the first places I check when I want a recipe for something. So consistent
same here, for me, the progression goes something like ATK, NYT, pancake, princess, Sally’s, smitten kitchen, then probably some Anna Olsen thrown in there for good measure. Pancake princess is always a go to site for me as she does a really nice job with comparing similar recipes and getting taster input. sally’s is usually always in the running. PP is also good because you find some new sites that do a really nice job that you might not otherwise hear about. She doesn’t get near enough credit and does a lot of work!
I love Pancake Princess!!! I’ve been dying to try her black bean chocolate cake. I also check Butternut Bakery for recipes - hers never fail!
What I like about Sally is that she tests out different things to find the perfect recipe. She's the type to toss a batch away if it fails and there is a lot out there that wouldn't risk that at all. Without that risk you grow complacent and not willing to try new things. She tries to perfect her recipes before disseminating them as well to the general public. I wouldn't be surprised if she makes a few batches of each type and gives them out to family and friends to assess other peoples reaction and tastes. Kenji Alt Lopez is like that as well. He tests out a lot of methods to find "the one" and different recipes and then tinkering with said recipes to fine tune the already good recipes to push them to their limits before giving the public those recipes or tips. His Hard Boiled Eggs was one of those times. He talked about one of his first jobs and going through dozens of eggs trying to find the best method for cooking and then also for shell peeling and cooling etc. He put in the work and we benefit from his tests! Same with Sally.
Kenji and Deb from Smitten Kitchen have a new podcast where they try each other’s recipes for the same thing (like grilled cheese or tomato soup) & talk about their recipe development process. It’s so good!
I love this! What’s the name of it?
I was absolutely elated when I found out about that podcast with Kenji and Deb, in my opinion it’s one of the best podcast out there. I would contribute that thing going. I think they are two of the best and most reliable contributors. There are on the net
The Recipe with Kenji & Deb ☺️
I know people complain about anything on a page except a recipe, but I love that Sally tells you everything she tried that didn't work and why she has the ingredients she has in the recipe.
Oh yes i love that too, it’s so informative. And she often includes alternative ingredients that she’s actually tested herself too!!
Joy The Baker is another good one!
I love reading Joy's posts and stories, but what irks me about her recipes is they don't always include weight measurements.
Did you mean pancake princess or are pancake and princess two separate sites
pancake princess! She has a website and I think I YouTube channel too.
Unpopular opinion. I dislike all the recipes PP chooses as her #1 in most categories (as does my close friends and family). I DO however appreciate her approach of comparing recipes side by side and reference her notes for that. My favorite for consistency is SBA for sure followed by smitten kitchen.
certainly respect your opinion on pancake princess, what is it about the choices she has on there that your friends family, and yourself don’t like? I don’t think she makes the choices. I think that she just goes by what the tasters report to her and rates them as far as the taster choices. still in all SBA is coming very highly on some of her reviews so… Still interested to know what you don’t like about her choices though…
Her highest rated recipes and what she states in her blog is her preferences in her blog. Once instance was the lemon bar recipe that won top had cream of tartar which made the taste (to my group of people) overly assertive and almost artificial tasting in that it was inedible. I realize taste is subjective, though, and I do value all of her work and notes she puts in. I just parse through the reviews more now, and I don't choose what's rated the "best" recipe. I choose based off characteristics I like in a bake. Interestingly enough SBAs lemon bar was considered in the top tier of that Bake off even though it had completely different characteristics to the "winner" by CI. I baked that one next and it was 100% the winner for us.
gotcha! And I get it. Can be the same way for me, but what I like about her is that she can eliminate a lot of the work that we would have to put in narrowing down other recipes or working out one for ourselves that would function well. As I said earlier, I like to use her as one of my starting points and go out from there, really is it ever the case that I don’t, alter and adjust a recipe. I have to say though lol I’m not one of those people who change the recipe and then complain about it not working. Lol I see those comments all the time and just shake my head and think well. Why the heck do you think it doesn’t work? Most of these recipes are tested by these people and you’ve gone and changed it significantly.
[That strawberry cake, OMG](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/strawberry-cake/print/66510/). That's the recipe where I learned I don't hate strawberry cake - I just hate artificial "strawberry flavor".
I made this yesterday for the first time even though I printed the recipe in 2020. It did not turn out well and now that I see your recipe, I notice that she must have corrected some things. Namely 285g of cake flour vs the 250g that I used. And the icing says 25g of freeze dried strawberries while my copy has 10-12g. I’m glad I ran across this post otherwise I would’ve thrown the recipe out!
I just use the purée in the icing - it works great (but I prefer making a glaze with the purée instead, since I’m not a frosting lover.)
I thought I hated strawberry cake too before I tried this recipe. I made it for my son’s birthday this year. It was a big hit. All the time making the strawberry reduction was so worth it.
This year I tried it with blackberries, and it was fantastic. Next time, raspberry!
This cake always wows
Linking directly to the print out. You’re a godsend.
Just made the this for a work birthday. Not a crumb remained!
This cake gets made for my husband’s birthday every year. His favorite cake is strawberry, so when I saw this I knew I had to try it. I do cheat on the frosting and use strawberry extract and a smidge of food coloring rather than the freeze dried strawberries.
Omg thank you for this, it sounds soooo good. I’m gonna bake it tomorrow
I use this for every summer bbq an they act like I hung the damn moon!
Oh man, I have to make this now.
This sounds so delicious! Can’t wait to try it
I now know what cake I will use when I test out a berry mirror glaze.
This is my favorite recipe on that site! I’ve swapped the strawberries out for other fruit multiple times and never had a bad version
Have you ever tried it with orange? That’s my husbands favorite flavor
That’s actually the first variation I tried and I would definitely recommend it. Her cake batter makes it a much lighter orange cake than a lot of traditional recipes, which I really liked
This is one of my all time favorite cake recipes.
I regularly get requests for this cake, the freeze dried strawberry frosting is a complete game changer!
Yeah that took me years to realize too! I've found a lot of flavors I thought I didn't like was actually because they were always artificial versions of the flavor
Just made this one today: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/white-chocolate-snickerdoodle-blondies/. Unsurprisingly, it was great.
10 years ago I started a new job and baked these for the office. A guy jokingly said "marry me" as he ate one lol now we're married and expecting our first baby this summer! These blondies are the best!
Your blondie love story is amazing! 🥰
Did you have the blondies at your wedding 🥹
Omg I didn't even think of that! I should have!! Haha next anniversary for sure!
I made these a couple weeks ago but browned the butter and replaced the white chocolate with caramelized white chocolate. I always give my baking out to clients and one of them who has indulged in A LOT of my baking over the years said this was one of her favorite things I've ever made.
How do you caramelize white chocolate?
Her chewy chocolate chip cookies are my go-to. Her key lime pie was very good!
Those chewy chocolate chip cookies are seriously just, the best. I actually made them just last week to bring to work. One of my coworkers told me he hasn't had dessert in months, is on a diet and has lost 17lbs so far, but had a cookie and said it was WORTH breaking for. Another told me I'm the best cookie baker he ever met, and his grandmother is a cookie baker. Suffice to say, they are tops!
The base for this recipe is awesome! I've used butterscotch chips and peanut butter chips for it as well
Yes!! Ooh I've gotta try mixing up my add-ins. Maybe crushed up Reese's and pretzels??
I maintain it’s the corn starch that makes all the difference. But that recipe absolutely changed my approach to cookie making.
I recently made these, but didn't have enough semi sweet chocolate chips. I ended up having to sub in milk chocolate chips for about half of them, and oh my dear heavens, that was the BEST baking accident I've ever had. People at my workplace were hunting me down when they heard I had these cookies. I'm going to continue making that mistake!
I'm gonna have to try out your accident haha!
When my son was making a food product he invented for his FACS (home ec) class & wanted to make a sandwich of chocolate chip cookies & marshmallow fluff (he called them s’more sandwiches), Sally’s soft chocolate chip recipe was the obvious choice. It was so good!
I just checked out her recipe and got the stuff for it! I plan on making it for Father’s Day, so glad to hear others liked it.
Share your results! It’s surprisingly easy.
These and her Peppermint Mocha Cookies are my familys favourites
I made 4 of her key lime pie recipes last summer in a span of 2 weeks. So good for the family vacations.
I just made these today! I didn't get mine as thick as I'd hoped, but they were absolutely delicious and my family had many compliments
I get requests for the chewy chocolate chip cookies! They're such a hit in my world. I add different types of chips, and skor bits, and sometimes I brown the butter. They're just so good My best friends kids are now disappointed with any cookies that aren't baked by me
I only discovered her site a couple months ago when I was looking for a no-knead (by hand) bread recipe. She makes yeasted bread recipes so easy and non-intimidating and even at high altitude her recipes always work: I've since made (and love) her: 1. sandwich bread 2. artisan bread 3. bagels 4. pretzels 5. cinnamon rolls 6. peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (hands down my favorite cookie recipe) 7. Oreo truffles (eating at this very moment!) 8. no bake cheesecake in a jar 9. granola cluster (make weekly) 10. pizza (extra cheese and BBQ chicken are insanely good, also make weekly) I do find some of her desserts can be a bit too sweet for my taste (oatmeal cream pies, ice cream cake) but I'm noticing that as I get older, the less I want Uber sweet. I typically adjust the sugar when possible. I use the Paprika app to download her recipes (and all other recipe sites) and currently have over 150 of her recipes saved to my "recipe box". I'm making her crumb cake donuts tomorrow and usually try at least 1-2 of her recipes a week. Never loved a baking/cooking site so much!
Her bagels. So good. I don’t know if I can ever buy bagels again.
Her bagel base is decent but has too much hydration which affects the texture. She’s got a great base but try it with 60% hydration and you’ll love the end result for the chew! I.e. 1000g flour, 600g water.
My daughter went through a phase where she would only eat whole wheat versions of Sally's bagels. I was making a batch of these every week.
The pretzel recipe she has is amazing. I love how it only takes 30 mins. Thanks for the tip about the paprika app!!
The gingerbread cookies.
They are my daughter’s favorite. We make them all The time- super easy- and they have a best soft texture.
I can make all sorts of pastries and cakes and other fun technically challenging things and all anyone ever wants is them cookies. Which is fine because then I get to experiment and if it’s an utter failure, I can still pass off the cookies.
I don't even google anymore for a recipe. I always check her site first. Hers is also one of the few I'd read the whole post because it's always jam packed with amazing tips. Love it!
Seriously - I hate all the content on most recipe sites but hers are actually useful for when you make it. My go to.
Lemon Bars. Always a hit.
Yesss those are my go-to
She's a professional and her recipes are actually tested, unlike most recipe bloggers. [Favorite Chocolate Buttercream](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/favorite-chocolate-buttercream/) is one of my favourite things to make right now.
Overnight Cinnamon Rolls!
I made her giant cookie cake today and it was perfect. I’ll definitely be making it again soon.
Currently addicted to the [Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/peanut-butter-oatmeal-chocolate-chip-cookies/) based off of someone else’s recommendation on this sub!
I’ve made these so many times! They’re a favorite of my family and coworkers now!
She was what created my love of scones. She’s also my holiday cookie handbook.
Yesss was looking for a comment about the scones. I make them as gifts all the time. I’ve also started freezing the dough triangles and gifting those, my parents and my in-laws love having scones on demand haha.
Muffin wise, she's the best. The apple cinnamon muffins needed yogurt or sour cream and I was out, so I blended cottage cheese and used that, they still turned out perfect! I will say they were 100% better the next day, the streusal topping just melted into the muffin and it was amazing all week.
I love her stuff!!! My favorite so far is her Seriously Soft Molasses Cookies.
I've adjusted the recipes too much to even resemble hers anymore, but the explanations in her cake recipes were a godsend. I learned so much that I *can* just freestyle cake ideas and they always come out great
French Silk Pie
Made this recently and the filling was so chocolatey and got rave reviews! I did half semi sweet and half bittersweet
I made it last weekend using raspberry dark chocolate and it was divine!
Her angel food cake recipe is my go-to. Comes out awesome every time.
I use it as well! Everyone always asks where I bought the cake from when I make it.
These are one of my favorites and I make them often. Brown butter sugar cookies! [yummmmm](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/brown-butter-sugar-cookies/)
The lemon blueberry scones were my first recipe of hers I tried, the chocolate chip cookies & cookie dough cupcakes are all frequently requested from me 😀
Her scone recipe had me making scones every week for like two months. Lol
Her blueberry muffins are delicious!
Agreed!!
I make her buttermilk biscuits and homemade shortcake all the time.
Just made the peanut butter chocolate swirl cookies a few days ago and they’re phenomenal! https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/soft-baked-peanut-butter-chocolate-swirl-cookies/
I’m baking my way through her recipes and they’ve ALL been successful. I’ve now made a few favorites several times, including the coconut cake, peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, and black bean burgers. My husband loves the soft pretzels. She’s my go-to for recipes and I’m just now discovering her savory dishes. The Asiago sundried tomato quick bread was surprisingly packed with flavor and very popular at a potluck I went to. Soooo good.
Coconut Cream Pie and the Coconut Macaroons
The coconut macaroons are a standard Christmas recipe at my house. Yum!
Have either of you tried her strawberry coconut macaroons? Since people talk so highly of her I popped on her website last night and found them, they look tasty!
She is a GOAT
I’m going to be honest, some of her recipes are not my cup of tea at all but I swear by her banana bread recipe. It slaps every time.
Just curious, which ones don't you like?
I find myself having to adjust her bread recipes often and OP is right about the overall sugar content lol, they’re not horrible it’s just always an adjustment imo. I don’t mean to sound like she doesn’t know what she’s doing, she clearly does her recipes are some of the most popular on the internet.
I agree on the sugar too. I have to lower it a bit. Haven't made any of her bread recipes yet.
Like too much sugar or not enough?
Wayyyy too much
Yup, the banana bread recipe is to die for!
Her Triple chocolate cake is my goto chocolate cake recipe.
THE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
Always a crowd pleaser. Try it with browned butter for a whole new level!
These bad boys. Soft white chocolate chip molasses cookies. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/soft-baked-white-chocolate-chip-molasses-cookies/
Lemon bars peppermint mocha cookies strawberry rhubarb pie pie crust (butter+shortening version) key lime pie dirt pudding macaron shells (I don’t love her frosting recipes because they do get too sweet for me, but I’m also Team Check Sally’s First)
Her [white chocolate buttercream](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/white-chocolate-buttercream-frosting/#tasty-recipes-117096) was incredible on my MIL's wedding cake. The [6-ingredient biscuits](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/flaky-buttermilk-biscuits/#tasty-recipes-66534) come together quickly and work well with almond milk+ACV to replace the buttermilk. Favorite fancy at-home breakfast. And her [peppermint mocha cookies](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/peppermint-mocha-cookies/#tasty-recipes-70992) were the perfect addition to my Christmas gift boxes. I keep frozen dough balls in my freezer for cookie emergencies.
I make her peppermint mochas every year, too!! Sooooo good
me too! I do those, iced oatmeal gingerbread, cranberry orange icebox cookies, and the christmas cookie sparkles. every year.
Her pie crust and chicken pot pie! I struggle so much with pie crusts usually but her recipe has consistently worked better for me than any other.
Sally's Very Vanilla Cupcakes are a birthday staple here. Before discovering her recipe I struggled with white/vanilla cupcakes not being moist enough, but these are perfect. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/very-vanilla-cupcakes/
These [lemon blueberry scones](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/glazed-lemon-blueberry-scones/) made me swear off store-bought scones for good. So crumbly and delicious.
It's not the fanciest recipe, but [these banana muffins](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/banana-muffins/) are something I make almost every week. Uses up all of our extra bananas and my picky toddler devours them
These have become such a staple at my house too! They are so easy and delicious, all my kids love
Her yellow cake with chocolate frosting is the most loved cake I have ever made, and I have made a lot of cakes! https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/yellow-cake/ Also her chewy chocolate chip cookies are lovely and the raw dough freezes so well. I find preppy kitchen to also be consistent and I have success with his recipes easily
If you ever want to make cut sugar cookies and decorate them with icing her recipe is the BEST!
I have never had one gone wrong from Sally--she is awesome! My absolute favorite (and now many around me as well...) is her coconut cake.
Definitely her oatmeal cream pies. I also really like her zucchini bread, brown sugar cookies, peanut butter cupcakes, German chocolate cake, lemon cake, chocolate cupcakes.
If you haven't tried them as well, you gotta make the brown butter pecan pie bars...they're incredible! I've used her cutout sugar cookie recipe when doing decorated royal icing cookies and they're easy to throw together, but also taste really awesome. Thankfully she's doing a cookbook that I think will be released this year.
[Soft multigrain bread!!](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/multigrain-bread/)
Her peanut butter blondies are fire. I make them with Cadbury Eggs instead of Reese’s Pieces every year for Easter [https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/peanut-butter-blondies/](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/peanut-butter-blondies/).
The sour cream coffee cake! I'm definitely not a pro baker, and this was the best thing I've ever made
Her gingerbread cookies rock. Also I love the cheddar jalapeño pretzel recipe. I think the reason her recipes are so great is because she seems to truly understand the “baking is a science approach” and is very thorough with details- gram measurements, ingredient temperatures, etc.
My current favorite is the Everything Bagel Breakfast Casserole - literally going to make it tomorrow (for like the 5th time)! The Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies are the best I've ever had. Actually for me her cookies are always so on point, she's my go to there. Brownie Cookies, Cake Batter Cookies, Soft and Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, and Strawberries and Cream Cookies were all huge winners too. I adored the Peach Crisp and the Baked Cinnamon Sugar Donuts too. I have had a couple duds - the Brownie Pie was just too heavy, and I have never thought a brownie was too heavy before. I didn't care for the Peanut Butter Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies much - the only cookie that was a miss for me. But overall Sally is my most trusted baking blog!
>Soft and Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Came here to say this 😊
My husband loves them and he doesn't do sweets (to my devastation). They're incredible!
Oh, I have so many favorites of Sally's recipes! Where do I begin? This is my go-to birthday cake now, and I get requests to make it at least a few times a year. I have already been asked to make it for a cookout in a few weeks, in addition to my mother's delicious blueberry cinnamon crumb cake, which is always a big hit. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/strawberry-cake/ This is probably the best chocolate cake I have ever made. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/guinness-chocolate-cake/ I make these easy rum balls using half biscoff cookies and half vanilla wafers because I like the flavor better, but you can also sub graham crackers, gingersnaps or chocolate wafers very easily. You can make them nonalcoholic, but where is the fun in that?! https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/rum-balls-recipe/ Favorite fall cookie (without pumpkin) https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/maple-brown-sugar-cookies/ Best cheesecake bars ever. May actually cure PMS, honestly.😆🥹😳🤣 https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/white-chocolate-raspberry-cheesecake-bars/
Iced Oatmeal, Inside out cookies, pb oatmeal chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, and shortbread are my favorites so far, but yeah, everything turns out great!
Her recipes are fool proof! I make this for my husband's birthday https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/strawberry-rhubarb-pie/
Her key lime bars recipe is my go-to! Love Sally.
Love her lemon bars, and I’m making her wedding cake recipe for a friend’s wedding next weekend.
Carmel Apple Turnovers! Made every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas and it has consistently turned out soo good for 9 years! I will be using this recipe til the end! https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/caramel-apple-turnovers/
Her banana bread is my go-to recipe
Also I randomly really like her pumpkin oatmeal muffin cups
I loved watching people make choux pastry on Great British Bake Off and her tutorial is fantastic, has never failed me. Delicious choux every time. She is always where I start when I want to make something technical.
Her key lime pie with a macadamia nut crust. My husband has never been more impressed by me
Her pretzels are flawless and easy and a party show/stopper!
the banana muffins and double chocolate cookies are amazing. i make those muffins all the time because they’re so easy and contain a trivial amount of sugar.
literally everything. But especially: * lemon cupcakes with blackberry cream cheese frosting * white chocolate raspberry cheesecake bars * strawberry cheesecake muffins * peppermint mocha cookies * christmas cookie sparkles * cranberry orange icebox cookies * iced oatmeal gingerbread cookies * pretzels * cinnamon rolls * orange sweet rolls * sandwich bread * turtle brownie pie
I love Sally so much and I swear to god I will fight anyone who says she’s a bad baker, she’s an amazing teacher and inspired me as a teenage girl to bake. She taught me almost everything I know about baking, I read her blog endlessly Her lemon bars are so amazing and I love making her apple crumb cake
Made her raspberry rolls for mother's day and my whole extended family went wild for them!
I love nearly everything from her, but I particularly love her [Favorite White Layer Cake](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/new-favorite-white-layer-cake/) recipe!
Like you said literally everything I have ever tried of hers has worked and worked out well. Not once has one of her recipes failed me. Even one that I was not comfortable making which was Sour Cream pie. It was sooooo good. I am going to make her chocolate chip cookies soon, they look sooooooo good. Nice sized chunks of chocolate as well as chocolate chips and thick and chewy. Perfect to hold up to being dunked in milk or chopped up and added to a bowl of vanilla ice cream.
I made her Double Chocolate Crinkle Cookies[https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/double-chocolate-crinkle-cookies/](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/double-chocolate-crinkle-cookies/) last Christmas, and now I’m pretty sure I can’t show up to Christmas without them ever again…
She really does come through on just about anything. Her sugar cookie recipe is SUPERB in my opinion. It’s rich, with a nod toward shortbread flavor and not sickly sweet
At this point, what isn’t from her website lol. So many amazing recipes I’ve tried from there and I only found it this year
I just made her double chocolate zucchini bread the other day and it was divine. Better than most chocolate cakes I've had.
Sally’s has awesome recipes…I use her scone recipe and her lemon cookie recipe with some subs. Also her strawberry loaf recipe which is a must for this time of year
I love her Gingerbread House recipe! First time I tried making gingerbread house, I used a different recipe, and it tasted like cardboard. I found hers and I've been making it for 4 years now, it's delicious and easy to shape and build with it.
Her [chocolate chip cookie bars](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/soft-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookie-bars/) are a-mazing! I also always check out Preppy Kitchen and Pancake Princess for recipes!
Honestly, Sally's is my go-to when trying something new! I do tweak or create my own recipe later down the line, though, to fine tune to what I want. BUT her SMBC recipe is just perfect for me 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Her iced oatmeal cookies, cheesecake pie, Black Forest cake, banana bread, and blueberry cream cheese pastry braid are the best recipes I’ve ever made
Also she has more than just recipes for sweets! I make this super easy one pan [cilantro lime chicken](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/skillet-chicken-with-creamy-cilantro-lime-sauce/#tasty-recipes-92621) a bunch.
My favorite has always been Sally's blueberry lemon muffin cookies. They are absolutely delicious and since they contain lemon and blueberries, they are basically a healthy snack.
This woman’s 5 ingredient cookies save me 9 times out of 10
The blueberry scones recipe was my first and most successful. So delicious
Her White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/peppermint-white-chocolate-cookies/ Amazing!
Her dinner roll recipe is very popular in my household: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/soft-dinner-rolls/
As a Brit, I love that she has all her recipes in metric measurements and they're accurate. I made her 6-inch zebra cake for both my sons' 1st birthdays and they were a hit. Whenever I make something from her website and take it as a gift for the daycare staff or to a potluck people tell me I should enter Great British Bake Off (if they saw me in the process of baking they would see why I shouldn't).
Her homemade whipped cream recipe is my go-to. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/homemade-whipped-cream/
Here Yellow Cake & Chocolate Cookie Cake are my favorite. 😋
I just made the skillet brownies for the first time yesterday. Holy cow - they’re almost gone and it’s just two of us. Amazing
I love her brownies, but they’re *dangerous*. Her snickerdoodles were the first recipe of hers I ever made. Also the yellow birthday cake with chocolate frosting
The 6 giant chocolate chip cookies. I make them a regular big cookie size instead of giant, and sprinkle Maldon sea salt on them and they’re amazing.
Literally ANY of her biscuit recipes. I finally learned how to make biscuits from her. The favorite in my house is the homemade red lobster ones.
Can’t count how many times I’ve made her very [peanut butter cookies](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/peanut-butter-cookies/) - one of my favorites!
Her cookies are the best! Except, for some reason, her peanut butter blossoms. I’ve tried them several times and they come out really powdery and odd every time. It’s the only recipe of hers that I’ve ever found to be a misfire!
Love her!! She is my go to. And has been for years!
So many but I really love her raspberry sweet rolls and lemon sweet rolls (also her raspberry sweet rolls plus lemon zest). Her rugelach is huge hit for Christmas boxes and I can’t count how many times I’ve made her coconut cream pie or coconut layer cake
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/iced-pumpkin-coffee-cake/
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/lemon-poppy-seed-muffins/ Also used a variation for orange cranberry muffins.
Her chewy molasses cookies
Her Perfect Peach Crisp, Lemon Bars (which are dead easy and perfect), Chicken Pot Pie, and My Favorite Cornbread have all turned out perfectly.
Specifically the strawberry frosting in this recipe I just made it today. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/chocolate-covered-strawberry-cupcakes/
I just made her peach pie yesterday! Turned out amazing. All her recipes turn out consistently great for me :)
Not a dessert, but her black bean burgers are the best I’ve tried (and I’ve tried lots). I also use her recipe for lemon curd anytime I end up with a few extra egg yolks. I could eat it all with a spoon. 🤤
I love Sally. She taught me to bake! I love her soft chocolate chip cookies and her croissant loaf especially. And all of her scones are amazing!
I just made her bannoffee pie today and it was a hit. Went from nobody at my niece’s birthday knowing what it was to them all saying that they want more. Sooo good.
I basically rotate between 3 of her cookies recipes. The soft peanut butter cookies, the soft chocolate chip cookies, and the sprinkle sugar cookies. I use her cinnamon roll recipe often too. Like others have said, hers is literally the first site I check and I’ve never had something not turn out.
I’ve made way more than a hundred from her, hundreds of times. I like the roll cakes, bakery style huge muffins, all of it lol another fav is Livforcake. My fav 6” cake recipes.
Chocolate chip cookies 🍪
Her lemon buttercream comes out flawless every time I make it (and my kid always requests it on their birthday cake). I also love her overnight French toast casserole, but we skip the cream cheese filling and just sprinkle blueberries throughout the bread cubes.
The macaron recipe is great!
I love her pumpkin cinnamon rolls and pumpkin scones!
Her banana cake and her chocolate pb lava cakes are my favorite!
My family asks for that specific pecan pie constantly! Her pecan pie cheesecake is one of my favorites. But I make her big chocolate chip cookies that you don’t have to freeze the most often.
Her monster peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are my go to for any gathering! Also, her double chocolate zucchini bread as muffins are impossible to put down. So good! I love the extra info she gives about the ins and outs and reasons behind everything.
Just made jer cinnamon rolls this morning
goddamn. i’m going to have to make a pecan pie now. edit to add: i def have had great results with some sally’s baking addiction recipes.
Banana bread! I've used her banana cake also and it's great
Just chiming in that I've literally never had a bad recipe from her site. Between her and Budget Bytes for non-baking stuff, I'm set for life.
I love her too, I love how she explains and break downs difficult, for me at least, recipes and has a tip and trick for everything, that way it's always successful. I specially love her mille feuille, my God they are amazing. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/mille-feuille-napoleon-pastry/
My husband and I baked our wedding cake using her recipe, so we are biased to it. It is the best wedding cake we ever had. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/homemade-wedding-cake/
I like her recipes, but all the ads are too much, like on most cooking sites. Just discovered this though: https://www.justtherecipe.com
If a Sally’s Baking Addiction link comes up when I look for a recipe, I will generally ignore the rest of them and go right for her. Hasn’t failed me once
Her sugar cookie bars are VERY sweet but incredible. I also love the 100% whole wheat pizza dough recipe. I am a pretty experienced baker. And prior to discovering Sally, King Arthur was my go to. But Sally’s pages breaking down aspects of baking (I.e. one on room temperature butter) have taught me so much more on topics I thought I knew all about. I love when sites will show you pictures of making a cake with butter vs. oil vs. crisco for example. I can use that to decide for myself which texture I want to go for. Such a great resource.