Expert Baking & Pastry Recipes from Helen S. Fletcher
Browse hundreds of delicious, show-stopping baking & pastry recipes you can make today! Learn via expert instruction and step-by-step how-tos from an expert baker with over 30+ years experience.
Happy Holidays
However it happened, we are at the end of 2023. But the best is yet to come when it comes to enjoying food as you consider these special recipes to brighten your holidays.
Newest recipes
My latest posts can be found here including updated recipes that are sure to become favorites.
See more all recipes →
The Perfect Gift
Wondering what this is all about? Read my Review of the Breville Bakery Chef.
The Breville Bakery Chef and an autographed copy of my latest book, Craving Cookies is the perfect gift for yourself or for your favorite baker.
You can buy one or buy both. When buying both, they have to be ordered separately and will come to you separately.
Updated Recipes
These are among the recent updated recipes that are easier for you to follow and have recipe cards included for your convenience.
Trending
Seasonal desserts as well as current favorites.
Cakes
There are so many newer, faster, more efficient ways of baking cakes from mixing, to baking, including how to get flat layers every time without cutting the tops off.
See more cake recipes →
Tarts & Pies
Ever wonder how to get the flakiest crusts, which thickeners to use, how to blind bake a crust and why all butter is not always the answer.
See more tarts & pies →
My Books
Sharing the information I’ve gleaned over a 30 year career in professional baking can be found in these books. Many of the recipes as well as techniques developed for them are included.
Subscribe to receive our free ebook.
Pastries Like a Pro brings you everything baking and pastry. It’s filled with technique, recipes, updated methods and most of all it’s like having a seasoned professional standing next to you in the kitchen.
About Helen
Being a self-taught baker and owning a bakery for over 25 years, I found many ways to make baking more successful and less intimidating. Even busy people can bake as in many cases, recipes can be done over days. The goal is to make your baking life easier, more enjoyable, with great outcomes on a consistent basis.