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Sally McKenney

Sally McKenney is a professional baker, food photographer, and cookbook author. Since 2011, she has been sharing meticulously tested recipes and step-by-step tutorials, helping home bakers gain confidence in the kitchen. Over the years, her dedication to approachable baking has built a loyal community of millions. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, in People Magazine, and on popular sites like BuzzFeed, HuffPost, The Kitchn, and Country Living.

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Bread Baking 101: Complete Beginners' Guide

In this free email series, you'll learn exactly how yeast works (in easy-to-understand language), which bread beginner recipes are best, plus how to tackle pizza dough, sandwich bread, shaped dough, and more. There's no homework or prior kitchen training needed.

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    Spring Baking Recipes

    Spring is in the air! Spring brings the promise of brighter days ahead, as well as fresh, vibrant flavors. From sunny lemon bars and lemon blueberry tart, to favorite springtime cake recipes like light and airy angel food cake, sunshine citrus cake, blackberry lavender cake, carrot cake, and fluffy coconut cake, my team and I believe spring baking is definitely worth coming out of hibernation for!

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    Breakfast & Brunch

    Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but it’s also an excuse to eat sweet rolls, muffins, donuts, and pastries in the morning! (OK, occasionally. But still.) Whether you’re planning a healthy wake-up meal with a delicious frittata, baked oatmeal, or breakfast casserole; or a lavish special-occasion brunch with quiche and cream cheese French toast casserole, you’re sure to find a new favorite breakfast recipe to start your day off right.

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    Helpful Baking Videos

    While I always include detailed step-by-step directions and photos for every recipe I publish, my team and I know how helpful it can be to actually watch a recipe come together. We’ve filmed hundreds of recipe tutorials!

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    Best Baking Tips

    If you’d like to learn the basics of baking, you’re in the right place—I have plenty of tips to share! The knowledge I’ve learned over the years has created a fantastic foundation on which I can build and share with readers.

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    Let’s Bake Bread

    Bread bakers of all levels will love easy recipes like 4-ingredient homemade bread, quick & easy soft pretzels, and this honey oat bread. This Baking With Yeast Guide is a great starting point if you are new to baking bread.

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    Dinner Recipe Ideas

    Here you’ll find some of my family’s favorite quick & simple dishes, including black bean burgers, 20-minute honey garlic shrimp, and creamy lemon & thyme chicken.

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    Craving Cookies

    Welcome to my most expansive recipe category! From the ever-popular recipes for classics like chewy chocolate chip cookies and sugar cookies, to reader favorites like snickerdoodles and oatmeal raisin cookies, you’ll find literally hundreds of cookie recipes here.

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