Delicious Home Recipes Made from Scratch.

Welcome to the blog. Here you’ll find recipes for weeknight dinners, weekend baking, and the occasional cocktail. The Ugly Duckling Bakery is for home cooks who want food to be made simply, use the freshest ingredients, and taste absolutely scrumptious.

  • a spicy skinny margarita garnished with dried orange on a white tray with another dried orange, chili pepper, and limes.

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  • unbaked strawberry apple pie with a braided lattice top and apple cutout.

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  • a bowl of cavatappi with a lemon ricotta sauce, two lemons, and small bowl of Parmesan.

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Easy Tiramisu Cake

This tiramisu cake is made with yellow cake layers soaked in coffee-flavored syrup and filled with coffee cream cheese frosting and chopped chocolate. If you love tiramisu, you will love this tiramisu cake. Or make a tiramisu birthday cake for the coffee-lover in your life. You might also like: Easy Coffee and Walnut Loaf Cake…
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I’m an infectious disease doctor in Washington State who’s been cooking and baking for 40+ years! I started the Ugly Duckling Bakery blog in 2021 to share my love for food. My hope is to bring you some of the science and history in recipes, tips and tricks to understand how and why the recipes work, and enough foundation so that you can start to create your own.

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The Ugly Duckling Bakery isn’t a reality. It’s just a dream that gets me through the workday when the funding is uncertain or the colleagues are fussy.

I’m a lifelong baker, but it wasn’t until 2020, when I was stuck at home with my elementary school kiddo, that I started baking and cooking with a purpose. The things I make are not often pretty, but they taste delicious.

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