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    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.

    St. Patrick's Day

    Guinness, Bailey's and apples rule the day for this most fun of holidays and we have the best of Irish desserts for you right here. So pick your fav, grab a pan and get ready to impress your friends!

    • Irish Apple Cake dusted with powdered sugar on a white and green tray
      Irish Apple Cake
    • A slice of Guinness Cake sits on a gold and white plate.
      Easy Chocolate Guinness Cake for Father’s Day
    • A white chocolate glaze on top of the Bailey's Cheesecake sitting on a dark chocolate crust. The cheesecake sits on a white plate with a fork on the plate.
      The Definitive Bailey's Cheesecake
    • A Warm Lava Cake sits on an antique plate with a spoon and coral napking and Bailey Sauce in the background.
      Warm Chocolate Lava Cakes with Bailey's Sauce

    Newest recipes

    My latest posts can be found here including updated recipes that are sure to become favorites.

    • Toasted coconut and macadamia nuts are the basis of these heart shaped shorbreads on a lattice plate over purple.
      Tropical Shortbread Cookies
    • A fudgy brownie on the bottom with a chocolate and butterscotch chip cookie on top.
      Brownie+Cookie=Easy Brookie Recipe
    • Basic muffins are shown plain and with sanding sugar glistening on top.
      A Perfectly Easy Basic Muffin Mix
    • Dulche de leche cookies with the five finishes - pecan, pecan and sugar, plain chocolate, plain cookie, with sanding sugar
      Dulce de Leche Cookies - Your Way

    See more all recipes →

    Trending

    Seasonal desserts as well as current favorites.

    • Gateau Breton
      Gateau Breton
    • Dulche de leche cookies with the five finishes - pecan, pecan and sugar, plain chocolate, plain cookie, with sanding sugar
      Dulce de Leche Cookies - Your Way
    • Cinnamon French Toast with Berries in an Orange Sauce
      Stuffed Cinnamon French Toast & Orange Sauce
    • Gibassier - A French Breakfast Treat

    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.

    • Spirited Marble Cake
    • This Ultimate Chocolate Fudge cake is gluten free and easy to make. It is finished with a chocolate glaze and served with a Vanilla Creme Anglaise
      Updated GF Ultimate Chocolate Fudge Cake
    • A sour cream cake laden with poppyseeds filled with orange curd and finished white chocolate buttercream
      Poppyseed Cake with Orange Curd and White Chocolate Buttercream
    • Blueberry poke cake is a 9x13" cake that has holes poked in it and filled with a blueberry compote. It is finished with whipped cream and blueberry filling
      Blueberry Lemon Poke Cake

    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.

    • Cinnamon Bun Apple Pie slice on a plate with the pie plate in the background.
      Cinnamon Bun Apple Pie
    • A meringue topped coconut cream pie in a glass pie pan with plates and forks beside it.
      Coconut Cream Pie with a Difference
    • A slice of Butter Rum Pecan Tart on a plate with whipped cream to the side.
      Butter-Rum Pecan Tart
    • A butter crust holds a raspberry jam filling topped with an almond filling of toasted almonds, sugar, butter, eggs, amaretto, almond and vanilla flavoring. It is finished with a dusting of powdered sugar
      Easy Almond Raspberry Tart

    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.

    • European Tarts
      European Tarts
    • The New Pastry Cook
      The New Pastry Cook
    • Baking as a Business
    • Craving Cookies, the Quintessential American Cookie Book

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    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.

    Learn more about me →

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    Hi, I'm 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.

    More about me →

    St. Patrick's Day

    • Irish Apple Cake dusted with powdered sugar on a white and green tray
      Irish Apple Cake
    • A slice of Guinness Cake sits on a gold and white plate.
      Easy Chocolate Guinness Cake for Father’s Day
    • A white chocolate glaze on top of the Bailey's Cheesecake sitting on a dark chocolate crust. The cheesecake sits on a white plate with a fork on the plate.
      The Definitive Bailey's Cheesecake
    • A Warm Lava Cake sits on an antique plate with a spoon and coral napking and Bailey Sauce in the background.
      Warm Chocolate Lava Cakes with Bailey's Sauce
    • A tray of breakfast cookies with a blue striped glass of milk.
      Versatile Breakfast Cookies
    • An individual Gingerbread with Orange Sauce on a white plate with dots.
      Gingerbread with Orange Sauce

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    Popular Recipes

    • Baked or Fried Doughnut
      Fried or Baked Doughnuts - Your Choice
    • Pan Size Conversions
      Pan Size Conversions
    • Gateau Breton
      Gateau Breton
    • Flavorings as Used in Baking and Pastry
    • flour for The Frustrating Facts of Measuring Flour
      The Frustrating Facts about Measuring Flour
    • Layers of laminated dough
      A Discussion of Laminated Doughs

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