Biscoff Cookies
I bought my first jar of Biscoff spread in an airport and ate most of it with a spoon before landing. The name comes from biscuit and coffee, which tells you what the Belgian original was made for. Dunking, mostly.…
Flora A. Griffin
Hi, I’m Flora, the baker behind this site. I share simple, reliable baking recipes so you can make delicious cakes, cookies, brownies, and breads right at home. My goal is to help you turn everyday ingredients into desserts everyone loves.
Brownie Cake
My son asked for brownies for his birthday. Not cake, brownies, with candles in them, which is a hard thing to do with a 9×13 pan and a knife. So I baked the batter in two round tins instead and…
Candle Cake
The first candle cake I saw was at a friend’s dinner. Plain white cake, four tall dinner candles pushed into the top, lights off. It looked expensive but it wasn’t. That’s the whole appeal. You bake something simple, frost it…
Cheesecake Brownies
I used to think the swirl was decoration. It isn’t. The cream cheese layer cuts through all that cocoa, and without it a pan of brownies this fudgy gets heavy by the third square. This is the from scratch version,…
Cheetah Print Cake
My niece asked for a cheetah print cake two birthdays ago and I said yes before thinking it through. Turns out the print is far more forgiving than it looks. Real cheetah spots are uneven, so every mistake reads as…
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
I chased chewy for years and kept landing on cakey. The fix turned out to be three small changes, not a whole new method. Melted butter, mostly brown sugar, and one extra egg yolk. This chewy chocolate chip cookies recipe…
Fall Cupcakes
Every October someone asks me to bring cupcakes somewhere. A school thing, a bonfire, a neighbor’s porch party. These are what I bake, because the batter takes ten minutes and the flavor actually tastes like the season rather than just…
Fig Cake
A neighbor handed me a bag of figs one August and I had no plan for them. That’s how I found this cake. It came from an old Southern recipe, and it’s now the only thing I want when figs…
Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
My sister was diagnosed with celiac disease a few years ago, and the first thing she said she missed was a proper cookie. The early batches I made her were sandy in the middle, which is the usual complaint with…
Matilda Cake
Everyone remembers the scene. Bruce Bogtrotter, a whole school watching, and a chocolate cake the size of a car tire. I rewatched the film with my nephew last winter and he asked whether that cake was real, which is how…