Zoe bakes recipes

Linzer Tortes are little jam biscuits fit for a royal wedding. The rich, buttery hazelnut cookie dough is a tasty exterior to the sweet raspberry jam inside. These are a mini version that come in perfect bite sizes.

Perfect blueberry muffins are studded with fruit, with blueberries in every bite. It should have a crunchy streusel top and be tender inside. These blueberry muffins deliver on all of these.

These chocolate chip cookies are the result of what I learned making countless batches for decades. I also explain what the ingredients do to a cookie and how baking can change them. You can tweak your cookies to be just how you like them using my cookie guide toward the bottom of the post.

Angel food cake is the lightest, fluffiest, most ethereal cake and this version gets even better with a cherry studded whipped cream.

This carrot cake is perfectly spiced, moist and unbelievably good! Using candied carrot peels as decoration (optional), cream cheese frosting and sweetened shredded coconut, this cake is simply the best — I make it all the time!

My Poached Pear Tart is on the cover of the Anthropologie Catalog! Here's the recipe, along with my Apple Crisp and Creme Brulee from the catalog.

After a bactch of doughnuts for a party, the next morning the oil was still on the stove, albeit cold–but there was brioche dough left in the bucket… Roll the brioche dough out to 1/4 inch thick. Using a biscuit cutter and a small round cookie cutter shape the doughnuts. Make sure to save the […]

This cinnamon star bread looks complicated and fancy, so you'll be surprised at just how simple it is to make!

Bless whomever first thought to combine zucchini and chocolate. These two unlikely partners make fantastic cake together. The moisture in the vegetables translates to a super-rich cake—and all rich cakes are made even better with chocolate. I love the bittersweet edge of a darker chocolate, but semisweet works beautifully here as well.

These squash scones are a lovely twist on the classic, featuring butternut squash and white chocolate. You can see me make these on my show, Zoë Bakes on Magnolia Network.