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Homemade Thin Mints

Daniel Hautzinger

Add peppermint flavor to homemade thin mint cookies reminiscent of Girl Scout Cookies with this recipe from PBS's Adrianna Adarme of the Fresh Tastes blog.

A Warmly Spiced Banana Bread from a New 'Milk Street' Cookbook

Daniel Hautzinger

The browned butter-cardamom banana bread comes from Milk Street's first baking cookbook, featuring recipes and techniques from around the globe.

'Milk Street' Bakes – and Teaches, and Tours the Globe for New Recipes

Daniel Hautzinger

Milk Street releases its first baking cookbook in the same year that it launches culinary tours. Director of education Rosemary Gill spoke to us about both, and the cooking school.

Spruce Tree Shortbread

Daniel Hautzinger

Cooking with spruce is magical. It fills up the house with the fragrance of a sweet-scented forest and makes it feel oh-so-Christmassy! 

Oat Ginger Rhubarb Crumble

Daniel Hautzinger

Try a simple, warming dessert perfect to make with a child. 

Donkey Hodie Birthday Cake

Daniel Hautzinger

Celebrate a birthday with a cake decorated to look like the face of the PBS Kids star Donkey Hodie!

Mary Berry's Passion Fruit Tart

Daniel Hautzinger

Try a recipe for a passion fruit-flavored take on lemon tart from the grande dame of British cookery. It's perfect for a sunny spring gathering. 

Chocolate Ginger-Molasses Cookies Great for Kids and Adults

Daniel Hautzinger

It can be difficult to find recipes that please both children and adults, but these cookies from Martha Stewart manage to do so by adding chocolate chunks to ooey-gooey molasses cookies.

A Puerto Rican Holiday Bread Pudding You Can Make with Your Kids

Daniel Hautzinger

In Puerto Rico, budín de pan or bread pudding is typically served during Nochebuena or Christmas Eve. This recipe from PBS KIDS' Jessica Martinez is adapted from her grandmother, who took out the traditional raisins in favor of making the budín like a pineapple upside-down cake.

A Kid-Friendly Fruitcake Recipe

Daniel Hautzinger

Fruitcake may be a polarizing holiday dish, but if you make it fresh at home with your children, it can become a memorable new tradition – and it's easily customizable in terms of what fruit and nuts you include in it.

The Journey of a Loaf of Bread from a Farm to Your Table

Daniel Hautzinger

For a loaf of bread from Publican Quality Bread to reach you, wheat must be grown and harvested and sent to a stone mill to be ground into flour, which then goes through a process as long as 60 hours at the bakery. 

Meet the “Willa Wonka” of the South Side, Who Creates Nostalgic Cakes, Candies, and Jobs

Daniel Hautzinger

Stephanie Hart of Brown Sugar Bakery bought the Cupid Candies factory to produce chocolates and keep jobs in her community. "The better the places are to work, the better the community is going to be,” she says.  

Exploring Caribbean Baking in Chicago with the Baker of Jamaican-Inspired Cookies

Lisa Futterman

Chicagoan Danielle Tubbs runs a Jamaican-inspired cookie company called Tubby's Taste. She shared her story, and her favorite treats, on a recent visit to the Caribbean American Bakery in Rogers Park.

S'mores Bars from 'Milk Street'

Daniel Hautzinger

Try a no-campfire-necessary s'mores treat from Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, which will soon see the premiere of its seventh season on WTTW. The recipe is adapted from one by Southern baking legend Cheryl Day. 

A Recipe for Orange Cranberry Soda Bread with White Chocolate Chunks

Daniel Hautzinger

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with the simple but utterly worthwhile soda bread, in a version from Christopher Kimball's Milk Street that is brightened by orange and dried cranberries and slightly sweetened by white chocolate chunks. 
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