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Simple Pie Crust Cookies
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Simple Pie Crust Cookies

Pie crust cookies are the ultimate pie dough superheroes, transforming scraps of leftover homemade pie or pastry into powerfully nostalgic treats. They’re simple and un-fussy. Picture this: your blackberry apple pie is in the oven, filling your home with tantalizing aromas while these ingenious pie crust cookies secretly bake alongside. Now, here’s the twist: while…

Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies

These Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies are a smaller version of my favorite soft and chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe. They’re made with brown butter and mostly dark brown sugar to give you a rich, butterscotch cookie flavor. Mini desserts like mini blueberry pies, mini banana bread muffins, and these mini chocolate chip cookies are the…

Easy Blackberry Lemon Bread
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Easy Blackberry Lemon Bread

This Blackberry Lemon Bread recipe makes an easy blackberry lemon loaf cake that takes only about 30 minutes to put together. If you are a lover of adjectives, this blackberry lemon quick bread is velvety, tangy, and lemony. That’s because there’s lemon everywhere – in the lemon loaf cake, the lemon syrup, and the lemon…

Recipe Index

Recipe Index

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Roasted Cauliflower Burgers
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Roasted Cauliflower Burgers

These Roasted Cauliflower Burgers are a flavor-packed veggie burger option for your next burger night. Made with roasted cauliflower, cheddar cheese, raisins, carrots, onions, and quinoa, they’re a delicious meat alternative. Serve your cauliflower burger on a toasted bun with your favorite toppings, or enjoy a cauliflower patty atop rice or a vibrant salad for…

Blackberry Vodka Sour

Blackberry Vodka Sour

This Blackberry Vodka Sour uses blackberry simple syrup in a classic vodka sour formula for a well-balanced cocktail with bright flavors of lemon and blackberry. But why stop there? Add an egg white, and you’ve got smooth mouthfeel that makes sipping this blackberry sour even easier. Read on to learn all about the formula in…

Perfectly Juicy Cast Iron Chicken Breasts
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Perfectly Juicy Cast Iron Chicken Breasts

This Cast Iron Chicken Breast recipe makes perfectly cooked, juicy pan-roasted chicken breasts in under 30 minutes with only five ingredients! It’s easy, it’s reliable, and you don’t need fancy kitchen cookware or gadgets. But the best thing about these cast iron skillet chicken breasts is the infinite number of ways to mix it up…

Braised BBQ Chicken Meatballs
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Braised BBQ Chicken Meatballs

This BBQ chicken meatballs recipe calls for braising chicken meatballs in barbecue sauce to get tender and juicy meatballs that are packed with flavor. Make my sweet and tangy BBQ sauce ahead of time or use your favorite store-bought sauce, and dinner’s ready in 30 minutes. These BBQ meatballs are fabulous served over mashed potatoes…

Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies
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Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies

Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies are the perfect way to brighten up your day with their sunny flavor and fragrant aroma. And the best part? Making these melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies is as easy as “one, two, three!” Read on and I’ll show you how shortbread cookies follow a classic baking ratio. Just add a smidge of…

Baked Coconut Panko Chicken Tenders

Baked Coconut Panko Chicken Tenders

These Baked Coconut Panko Chicken Tenders are a great option for weeknight dinners. Kids love dipping baked chicken strips into the honey mustard sauce. You’ll love how the coconut and panko breading stays crisp on these oven-baked chicken tenders. Start to finish, they’re ready in 30 minutes. But that’s just the icing on the proverbial…

Cheesy Parmesan Chicken Muffins
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Cheesy Parmesan Chicken Muffins

These Parmesan Chicken Muffins are like a quick and easy Chicken Parmesan. You just need a muffin pan, a simple ground chicken mixture, some mozzarella to stuff inside, and Parmesan for dusting. You’re probably looking for new ways to serve chicken that you know everyone will love. You’ve found what you’re looking for.

Easy 4 Ingredient Potato and Leek Soup
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Easy 4 Ingredient Potato and Leek Soup

This easy 4 Ingredient Potato and Leek Soup recipe is all you need for weeknight dinners when the weather is chilly. It’s a silky smooth potato soup that tastes tons richer than you’d expect with just four ingredients. As with many things, you can always make it more complicated, and I’ve added some suggestions. But…

Cranberry Negroni: A Gin and Cranberry Juice Cocktail

Cranberry Negroni: A Gin and Cranberry Juice Cocktail

Introducing the Cranberry Negroni – a new Negroni variation. With its deep red hue, this gin and cranberry juice cocktail is a wonder for your eyes and your taste buds. Prepare for a bold experience, as pure cranberry juice complements the traditional bitter flavors of the Negroni. To balance it out, I’ve dialed down the…

Cranberry, Pecan, and Mushroom Turkey Meatloaf
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Cranberry, Pecan, and Mushroom Turkey Meatloaf

This Mushroom Turkey Meatloaf with Cranberry Glaze is meant to remind you of Thanksgiving dinner. Just add your favorite sides! Read on to learn how to make my favorite cranberry sauce and all the tips and tricks for making meatloaf. Or just grab your meatloaf pan, hit that Jump to Recipe button, and let’s make…

Dehydrated Cherry Tomatoes

Dehydrated Cherry Tomatoes

Dehydrated Cherry Tomatoes transform your everyday tomatoes into tiny bits of joy, intensely concentrated with flavor. Delight in your oven-dried cherry tomatoes as a snack, a topping for salads, or even to make a pesto. You’ll soon be dehydrating everything, from dried strawberries and dried apple rings to kale waffle chips. It’s easy to preserve…

BBQ Pinto Bean Burgers
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BBQ Pinto Bean Burgers

These BBQ Pinto Bean Burgers are everything you want in a veggie burger. They’re flavor-packed with barbecue sauce, garlic, green onions, and cheese. Best of all, these pinto bean veggie burgers are easy to make and sturdy enough to hold all your favorite burger toppings. Because burgers are just a vehicle for your favorite condiments…

Income and Donations

Income and Donations

As I pledged on my About page, I’ll be donating any income generated by the Ugly Duckling Bakery blog. It may not be much for now, but everything has to start somewhere. 2021 in review:In the first year, the blog had over 40,000 visitors and nearly 65,000 views.Best month: December 2021, with 11,773 visitors and…

Peking Duck-Inspired Ground Duck Meatloaf
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Peking Duck-Inspired Ground Duck Meatloaf

I have been committed to the perfection of this Peking duck-inspired ground duck meatloaf for a while now. There’s just something about Peking duck. The crispy skin. The hoisin sauce. The pancakes. While this duck meatloaf doesn’t include those beloved pancakes, it does have all of the flavor reminiscent of your favorite Peking duck. I’ve…

Dehydrated Strawberry Chips
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Dehydrated Strawberry Chips

Dehydrated strawberry chips are a simple snack with the concentrated, candy-like sweetness of strawberries. They’re easy to make with a dehydrator or your oven, and all you really need are strawberries. Pack them in lunchboxes or take them to the office for the mid-afternoon munchies. They’re proof that not everything in life is immoral, illegal,…

Maple Donut Cake

Maple Donut Cake

This Maple Donut Cake recipe won’t fool you into thinking that you’re eating a fried donut. But this donut cake will satisfy even your strongest of cravings for maple old-fashioned donuts. Read on for all the detailed recipe tips and tricks, or just grab your buttermilk and hit that Jump to Recipe button. And don’t…

Fig Bacon Jam
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Fig Bacon Jam

This Fig Bacon Jam recipe has that rare balance of sweet and salty, creamy and crispy. Make the bacon and fig jam recipe ahead of time and you have a weeknight meal that comes together in the time it takes to cook your pasta. I know some of you will have no interest in reading…