From Scratch Recipes for Foodies & Their Families
Browse hundreds of unique, from scratch recipes and cooking guides designed to help home cooks of any skill level. Taste the difference that fresh, flavorful, seasonal recipes can make for your home cooking and bring restaurant-quality flavors to your dinner table. Cozy up with hearty meals, sweet treats, and recipes designed to warm both belly and heart with my seasonal Winter Recipes. Delight friends and family with homemade gifts full of flavor and enjoy wide-eyed joy this holiday season when you deliver a plate full of perfect baked goods to a table of those you hold dear.
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Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls
These soft, fluffy, yeast raised cream cheese cinnamon rolls are the perfect treat for brunch. Follow the easy, step by step picture instructions to bake up a batch of homemade cream cheese sweet rolls, with sweet tangy cream cheese inside and out. Ohhh cinnamon rolls. Or cinnamon buns, or sweet rolls, or whatever it is…
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Spiced Shortbread Cookies
These simple spiced shortbread cookies are a variation on classic shortbread full of common winter spices perfect for the fall an winter season. As an easy to make and long lasting cookie they’re also great for gift giving to friends and family during the holidays. Shortbread cookies are my go-to whenever I have a cookie…
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Christmas Recipes | Holidays | Oven Recipes | Recipes | Side Dishes | Thanksgiving Recipes | Winter Recipes
Hasselback Potato Gratin
Perfectly seasoned and roasted hasselback potatoes get the comfort food upgrade with a simple breadcrumb and gruyere au gratin topping. Infused with classic potato gratin flavors, but updated for a modern meal that’s easy to serve. Potatoes are such a wonderful, versatile ingredients. With thousands of varieties available, it’s easy to find the perfect baby…
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Slow Cooker Apple Butter {Canning Apple Butter}
Sweet, tart, and silky smooth slow cooker apple butter is so easy to make with just a handful of basic ingredients. After a long, gentle cook in your slow cooker, water bath can your apple butter for long term storage or gift giving! Here we are again, another canning recipe…what can I say? I just…
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Christmas Pinwheel Sugar Cookies
These adorable Christmas pinwheel cookies are a cute, easy way to make festive cookies. Use store bought or homemade sugar cookie dough and customize them with 1, 2, or more swirls and your choice of sprinkles. They’re a quick and delicious way to have a holiday cookie without the decorating stress. Truthfully, I don’t love…
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Garlic Thyme Mashed Potatoes
Luscious, fluffy Garlic Thyme Mashed Potatoes are easy to make but full of herbaceous, buttery flavor that will elevate any meal into something gourmet. Serve them as a side for Thanksgiving or other holiday meals, or dress up a weeknight dinner into something special. If there is one produce item I recommend you always have…
Scratch Made Staples

Hi, I’m Mikayla, a foodie mom who LOVES to cook, eat, and feed my family fresh, flavorful seasonal foods. Here you’ll find unique, from scratch recipes and cooking guides designed to help home cooks of any skill level master flavor and technique and deliver delicious, real food to the table.
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