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Summer

With summer comes lots to look forward to: local sweet corn, slender Japanese eggplants, and tomatoes at their very, very best. In this collection you will find all of my favorite summer season recipes including a light summer squash pasta recipe with thinly sliced zucchini, an eggplant salad with cherry tomatoes, and a raw corn and tomato salad.

The BEST Overnight Brioche Cinnamon Buns

Frosted hot cross buns.

Spiced Hot Cross Buns (Overnight or Not)

slice of sausage, spinach and egg casserole

Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Casserole with Spinach

a cast iron skillet with Irish soda bread

Super Simple Irish Soda Bread

A halved loaf of sourdough bread.

Homemade Sourdough Bread, Step by Step

This chocolate cake, made with buttermilk and oil — no butter — and exclusively cocoa — no melted chocolate — is incredibly light and moist and stays this way — tasting freshly baked — for days. It's another Ina Garten recipe, one she begged for from a friend, the grandson of Beatty, after taking one bite. // alexandracooks.com

Beatty’s Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream

Peach Blueberry Cake

Crème Fraîche Ice Cream in Almond Butterscotch Cookie Cups

The custard, a ratio of 1 cup crème fraîche to 1 cup whole milk to 5 eggs, makes Tartine's Swiss chard quiche so fabulous. It's smooth with a slight tang and utterly delicious. // alexandracooks.com

Tartine’s Quiche

Classic Lemon Bars

An overhead shot of a dozen blueberry muffins on a cooling rack.

The Best Lemon-Blueberry Muffins

Two fresh loaves of peasant bread on a cooling rack, and the pyrex bowls they were baked in.

My Mother’s Peasant Bread: The Best Easiest Bread You Will Ever Make

Spicy, Crispy, Addictive Cheese Sticks

Just-baked lemon-blueberry quick bread.

One-Bowl Lemon-Blueberry Quick Bread

A bean salad in a serving bowl.

Simple White Bean Salad

One-Bowl Buttermilk Birthday Cake

Just baked sourdough pizza.

Simple Sourdough Pizza Crust: A Step-by-Step Guide

Just baked margherita pizza.

Simple, 4-Ingredient Homemade Pizza Dough

Apple cobble with hot sugar crust, just baked.

Apple Cobbler with Hot Sugar Crust

Seriously, this may be my favorite dessert ever. I baked this apple cake this morning, ate one quarter of it for lunch, and another quarter for dinner. I'm tempted to include a picture of the half-eaten cake in this post, but am too embarrassed. I don't know what else to say. It's moist, delicious, seasonal and can be enjoyed at breakfast, lunch or dinner. I mean it. Make it! // alexandracooks.com

Best Dessert Ever

Just-baked rosemary focaccia.

Overnight, Refrigerator Focaccia = The Best Focaccia Bread Recipe

An overhead shot of a mini loaf pan filled with just-baked lemon-ricotta pound cake.

Lemon-Ricotta Pound Cake

Crumb shot of sourdough sandwich (or toasting) bread.

Easy Sourdough Sandwich Bread

Sourdough boule freshly baked.

Easy Sourdough Bread (Whole Wheat-ish)