That's because we've already recognized their iconic status: the baguette from Trung Nam French Bakery, the Chocolat from Pâtisserie 46 and the bittersweet chocolate cookie from Rustica, to name a few.

Take a look at our past selections here. So, hot from the oven, here are 30 iconic Twin Cities bakeries — and what to order when you're next in line. Angel Food Bakery descended on the Minneapolis dining scene in like a shower of sprinkles and glitter.

Whimsy and fun are part of every menu item from chef Katy Gerdes. Once an offshoot of Hell's Kitchen restaurant, its home is now a light-filled storefront in St.

Louis Park, where there's even more room to pull up a chair and enjoy the twisted-up sweetness of the Dough-Napart. Legend has it that local TV personality Andrew Zimmern helped name the pastry, with its knots of croissant dough that are dipped, fried and glazed into one heavenly snack. Louis Park; MSP Terminal 1, Gate E5, Mpls.

Even with downtown Minneapolis corridors quiet early in the pandemic, there was an appetite for doughnuts. Cardigan delivered, even opening a second skyway location last year. There's an always-changing menu, but if there's one doughnut that shines brightest, it's the simplest.

Cardigan's take on the old fashioned — the kind of cake doughnut that has the crackly top and broken edges, or what owner Justin Bedford calls "deep ridges and petals. Those petals "catch" vanilla bean-infused glaze for an amalgamation of sweet and gooey goodness.

Even on a weekday, the lines are still present at this little neighborhood corner bakery, a Minneapolis fixture since While the ownership has changed hands it's now a part of Wuollet's , many traditions hold. The State Fair-flavored cake doughnuts, best ordered early and devoured while still toasty, are coated in sugar that crunches against the teeth like a warm day's answer to fresh snow.

A year-old bakery got some new energy last year when Twin Cities restaurateur Peter Sebastian Mario's, Estelle took over the Burnsville strip-mall staple. Since then, he's given it a refresh, adding vibrant colors and modern seating, and brought on pastry chef Emily Poole to revamp the menu with scratch-made doughs.

But the classics are still there, including a ginormous apple fritter that employs real chunks of apple, a light touch of cinnamon, and just enough sweet vanilla glaze. Until Glam Doll graced Minneapolis with its presence, the local doughnut community was notably devoid of rock 'n' roll.

The bakery burst onto the scene with a feminist, rockabilly sense of style and a flavor lineup ready to knock our taste buds out. Much has changed since , but not the Formica tables and glittery chandeliers inside this bakery. The Femme Fatale is one of the few flavors regularly available, and the doughnut is stuffed with raspberry curd until it threatens to overflow.

The adorable red heart perched atop the frosted vanilla exterior might make it look like a neat little snack, but things are going to get messy. Vegan version also available. Valley Pastries in Golden Valley hadn't changed much since its founding — even when new owners came aboard nine years ago.

But this year it got a new name and a fresh coat of paint, touches to make things a little "funner," said co-owner Alex Loosbrock. In the case, you'll still find the legendary golden fried hand-cut doughnuts, and the signature item: giant, fluffy doughnut holes that fly out by the dozens on weekends.

What they fail to realize is that they're going to be doubling back three or four more times because they're so good. Mention of this Nokomis-area bakery conjures images of the neon Mel-O-Glaze sign that shines like a promise that delivers on every visit.

Its hallmark? The yeasty, pillowy raised glazed doughnuts coated in a crackling shell that carries a faint citrus flavor. The rest of the bakery, which has been a mainstay for more than 70 years, is decorated with joy: little cutout signs with jokes, chalk on the sidewalk, and a staff that always seems genuinely happy to see you.

Those who can't consume gluten can thank Molly Miller, who answered the call for inclusion in the bakery space. The result is Sift, a bright little bakery that churns out all the usual confections but makes them safe for those who need to avoid all flour, yet delicious for anyone who appreciate well-made sweets.

The proliferation of coffee shops that carry their baked doughnuts, frosted and bejeweled with sprinkles, means that even more Twin Cities fans get to enjoy the gluten-free goods. One of the cafe's biggest sellers started out as the solution to a problem: a kitchen that wasn't quite right for proofing yeast-based doughs had to turn out a cinnamon roll — a lifelong favorite of owner Dan Swenson-Klatt.

So instead of an ultra-fluffy bun, Butter's first baker, Amy Kovacs, developed a cinnamon roll made from biscuit dough.

Soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside, the biscuit is swirled with cinnamon, cardamom and clove. It's smaller than your average Cinnabon-inspired roll, and far more sophisticated.

Shawn McKenzie, the James Beard-nominated pastry chef, would probably be the first to admit she's a perfectionist. The Cafe Cerés proprietor spent a decade perfecting her chocolate chip cookie recipe, a quest that started as "an obsession" back when she was around Crispy on the edges, soft on the outer layer and a little doughy in the middle," McKenzie said.

Well, she got it. And brown sugar was one of the keys. Then, her own special touch: tahini, which adds a nutty backbone and a taste of the Middle East that comes through in all of McKenzie's sublime pastries.

The term fika means taking a moment — to sit with company, sip a coffee and snack on a Swedish treat. The bakery case is filled with coffee-pairing confections, but the always-present kardemummabullar, or cardamom bun, is impossible to resist.

Unlike American-style cinnamon rolls, these bready twists — rolled up like a top knot on a ballerina, topped with a sprinkle of sugar — are filled with cardamom, a Scandinavian pantry staple. Every neighborhood should be so lucky to have the charm of a bakery and cafe like the Finnish Bistro.

The dining room possesses the same cozy feel as a stretched-out woolen sweater and a dog-eared novel that slides into a pocket. Opened in , it boasts an expansive menu of soups, sandwiches, baked goods and an entire selection of Finnish dishes.

Even with savory intentions, the stocked bakery case beckons, especially the tray stacked with kringler. Finger-sized slices of the almond-filled, icing-crowned pastry are an excellent pairing with a cup of coffee and a leisurely visit with a friend or a good book.

Paul, finnishbistro. Anne Andrus first tried a morning bun when she was studying pastry in San Francisco. Ten years later, it's still on the menu.

Andrus uses a Danish dough, which is enriched with eggs and high-fat Hope Butter to get those soft yet flaky layers. Each one is rolled by hand, meaning no two look exactly the same — and customers love to select the one that's perfect for them. Louis Park, honey-and-rye. An unassuming strip mall sets the stage for this rock star of local biscuitdom.

Coleman's craggy-edged biscuits are the best kind of attainable joy, whether pried open and topped with a dollop of butter or as the building block of one of the Twin Cities' best breakfast sandwiches.

Coleman is also sharing the biscuit love, offering frozen bake-at-home biscuits and a mix, too. Paul, hothandspie. Marc Heu made a name for himself in French pastry.

Literally — his name is written in large block letters on the front of his expanded bakery and cafe in St. But the journey to get to that point medical school, working the family farm, culinary school and trendy New York bakeries was a long one.

His impeccable pastries never compromise on French technique, but he adds a twist of his own by celebrating the tropical fruits he grew up with in South America. There's no better example than his signature and bestselling passion fruit tart, which highlights the sweet-and-sour seedy fruit in a smooth filling for his ultra-buttery pastry shell.

Pumpkin pies were available in England, but those early British pies usually had slices of pumpkin and apple in a double crust. The custard version appeared in North America by the end of the s, and its basic form hasn't developed much over the centuries.

The methods for making the pie have changed drastically, however, going from long stewing techniques using fresh pumpkin and fresh milk to canned pumpkin puree and evaporated milk by the 20th century. Fun fact: When Thanksgiving was first declared a holiday in , those in the South saw the holiday and its food — including pumpkin pie — as Northern propaganda instead of a national celebration.

Cookies now make an appearance on our list, and they bring the first ratings in the threes. Freshness Guaranteed fresh oatmeal cookies get 3. Many negative comments focus on delivery issues, but comments that focus on the cookies themselves tend to be all over the place. Some thought the cookies were too hard, others thought they were overly soft, some complained of an excessively strong taste, and so on.

Positive reviews mentioned just the right amount of chewiness, a nice level of cinnamon, and a consistently fresh taste. Something to remember if you order these cookies for pickup: A few of the reviews mentioned getting these cookies instead of oatmeal raisin or iced oatmeal varieties.

Others got these instead of chocolate chip. If you want oatmeal cookies specifically, you may want to head over to Walmart and pick them out yourself to ensure you get the ones you really want.

Walmart offers sliced loaf cakes in a few flavors, and the iced cinnamon cake from the Marketside brand earned 3. Some called the cake nice and moist, and perfect to have with coffee or even a scoop of ice cream. What stood out in the positive reviews was the cake's namesake cinnamon taste, which many customers felt was balanced just right.

However, both positive and negative reviews had something in common: the controversy over the icing. The cake itself was generally well-received, but some wanted less icing, others wished for more, and one buyer wanted none at all. Meanwhile, some customers found the icing to be bland, yet others loved its cinnamon flavor.

This seems to be a recurring issue with Walmart's iced cakes, as the users on this Reddit thread make clear. Rounding out the entries with ratings in the 3s is the Freshness Guaranteed 8-inch no sugar added apple pie.

Its current total of 3. One reviewer loved the fact that they could taste the fruit instead of just sugar, and quite a few others mentioned that they didn't even realize this treat had no added sugars because it tasted so good.

This isn't a sugar-free pie, however, as the fruit contains its own natural sugar. What's more, additional sweetness is provided by artificial sweeteners, which unfortunately didn't sit well with one customer who complained about the inclusion. There were also comments about how the apple filling seemed less bountiful compared to previous versions and how the pie appeared to be lacking enough filling in general.

Walk into any Walmart and you'll see at least one rack, often by an entrance, that holds several small boxes with one mini cake or mini pie in each container. These mini desserts from the Freshness Guaranteed brand come in so many different flavors that most people should be able to find at least one that they love.

We're including these as a category rather than as individual items because there are so many varieties to consider. Ratings range from low to pretty good. The mini chocolate cake gets 2. Negative comments focused on issues like the mini chocolate cake having a texture similar to paste and the Louisiana crunch cake having no crunch.

Even the lower-rated varieties have some dedicated fans. However, one caveat is that these mini desserts are calorie-packed. They're not ideal bakery items if you're concerned about nutrition and health. At less than a dollar, they're at least convenient and cheap. While Walmart's Great Value line offers baked goods that you'll typically find in the packaged bread aisle, Freshness Guaranteed and Marketside often show up right alongside the cakes and cookies in the bakery section.

You can find non-sweet items like Italian bread, but it's the sweet Marketside sliced brioche loaf that makes our list. According to customers who overall gave it 4. One customer gave it points for versatility, noting that their family loves to use this brioche for turkey sandwiches.

On the negative side, some complained that the bread was dry and rough. Many others said that the bread included in pickup orders had only a couple of days to go until its best-by date. People likewise said they had received crushed bread, while some complained about odd substitutes such as receiving brioche in place of things like sub rolls, or even finding a pineapple instead of brioche.

But problems with Walmart's pickup service are not new, so you may want to head to the bakery section yourself instead of relying on store employees to do the selecting for you. Red velvet is one of those flavors you either love or hate.

Customers who get the Marketside red velvet cupcakes are clearly on the love side, giving these small cakes 4. Some complained about dry cake and an overly sweet taste, but in general, these cupcakes are customer favorites. Many consistently singled out this treat's moist cake and the cream cheese frosting filling inside the cupcake for praise.

However, you may want to monitor the frosting. The taste may be fine, but these cupcakes have a pile of sugary stuff on each one that looks like it's almost as tall as the cake itself.

You're not alone if you don't like that much frosting, by the way. Posters in this Reddit thread agree that the amount of frosting commonly seen on cupcakes nowadays is just too much.

Some of the best mornings in Savannah start here. Those playful, snail-shaped scones at Kim Boyce's precision-oriented operation stand out for their creativity and their deliciousness , but it's almost impossible to go wrong here — an absolute standout in a city embarrassed with riches, so maybe don't tell the food tourist crowds.

Anne Ng and Jeremy Mandell met working for Thomas Keller in California's wine country , which explains the sunny Cal-French energy and excellent pastry work at their mini-chain of bakeries scattered around town. Try the tarts, macarons, or one of the best croissants in Texas.

Smartly-priced baguettes and all the bread, come to think of it at the next-door offshoot of the fabled, still-got-it brasserie are some of the most desirable in New York. A retail outlet at the wholesale bakery, located over the George Washington Bridge, is the commuter's secret weapon.

There are all sorts of fascinating things you probably don't know about Arizona yet, and one of them is that the state has its own heirloom grain traditions going back as far as the s. Don Guerra, who started out baking in his garage before becoming Tucson's high priest of the pan, is on a mission to revive them; he's also baking some of the Southwest's most exciting bread.

You will come to the beautiful Door Peninsula, and then you will keep driving and driving and driving, through some of the Midwest's best-loved countryside, and then, finally, after all the other cherry pie come-ons, you will find yourself at the humble home of one of the very best in the state, the one with the lardy crust.

Bea's Ho-Made has been an essential part of the Door County experience for roughly half a century. Beiler's Bakery is probably the second most famous Pennsylvania Dutch bakery the first being Martin's, home of those potato rolls , thanks to a flagship location just inside the Reading Terminal Market.

Get a simple, affordable taste of a very specific style of baking, one that Philadelphians can't get enough of. Much like the market, the Beiler's donut stands across the aisle and is kind of a national treasure. Michelle Vernier's lovely tribute to the classic pepperoni roll might not be thoroughly authentic, but you'll find yourself wanting it again and again.

That's become something of a theme at this standout modern Italian-American bakery — if there's sfogliatelle, or rainbow cookies, snap them up before somebody else does.

Back in Before Times, when West Coasters were standing in line for hours to try Japanese-style cheesecake, instead of a gallon of milk and some hand soap at the supermarket, lucky dessert-havers in Ohio's capital city had unfettered access to one of the finest examples of the genre this side of the Pacific — wonderfully light, but never too light, and packed with flavor.

If you live nearby and are not in the habit of keeping their classic milk bread on your kitchen counter for casual, everyday use, it's never too late to do the right thing. The littler Portland already had more great bakeries than a city of 65, deserved, not that we're mad, but right out of the gate in , Paris-trained Chris Deutsch and Amy Fuller made a name for themselves by doing what so many bakeries do not, which is being good at everything, from pastry to bread to some of the nicest pizza in town.

The Danish Kringle is a Wisconsin thing more than a Denmark thing sorry to Denmark, honestly. Butter-rich and filled with everything from almond to cherry to pecan, these wax paper-wrapped rings are a common sight on kitchen tables throughout the region.

This standout source has been at it since the s. Looking for the very best croissants and baguettes in New York? For almost a decade, Zachary Golper's have been considered top-of-the-list material, and for good reason.

All of his bread is excellent, and typically excellent value, as well; if available, snag yourself that rye ficelle, and vow to never eat supermarket rye again. One of the coolest things about one of the most happening bakeries in the country happens mostly behind the scenes — from the start, back in , co-founder Fulton Forde wanted the finest grains only, regional if possible, milled right on the premises.

Not only is the latter happening for the majority of their bread flour, but Forde also partnered with New England major player Andrew Heyn on a project to build mills from Vermont granite, which have been shipped to bakeries all over the world.

Even at the height of the pandemic, this exciting recent addition to the Twin Cities scene was strictly waiting-list only for would-be subscribers, who are able to get all the bread they can eat delivered, and always by bike.

A newly-opened Saint Paul storefront is closed for now, but the bread is still the bread, made with locally-milled Minnesota grains. With any luck, you'll get your hands on some. Daniel Leader's ahead-of-the-pack operation firing up in the early s, a very different time for bread in New York began with one wood-fired oven in the Catskills.

The bread is the same today as it has been for decades: still wood-fired and baked in a certified organic bakery. You can find it at many New York City greenmarkets, but a leisurely drive up the Hudson River to the Kingston flagship is a recipe for a good time. Essentially ground zero for the American grain revolution, Washington's Skagit Valley is home to numerous small growers, one of the country's most exciting mills, Cairnspring, and the important behind-the-scenes Washington State University Bread Lab.

There's no loaf east of La Brea more sought-after than, well, just about anything people can get their hands on these days, from this serious bread bakery that has managed to become a household name without even hanging out a shingle.

This is something they fully intend on doing, finally, once the storm passes. Ayako Kurakawa has quickly gained a sizable following — both online and in real life — for her delicate opera cakes, Insta-worthy tarts, and terribly creative pastries; you could walk past her bite-sized Dumbo shop for years and not know what you're missing — please, do not be like this.

Temporarily closed but available for pickup, delivery, and shipping online. It's Saturday morning in the New York City suburbs. Do you know where your crumb cakes are? Because if you don't, you'll be waiting in a long line with everybody else who forgot, and ideally you will do so at this nearly-century-old institution.

What makes a crumb cake in this part of the world special? Think more crumb than cake — the barely-there footer typically functions, and only adequately so, as a conveyance for so much delicious streusel. Temporarily closed but available on Goldbelly.

Bread-loving Americans owe a debt to this worker-owned cooperative, a very early player on the modern bread scene. Opened in , they would later inspire the well-loved and also worker-owned network of community-minded Arizmendi bakeries, located throughout the Bay Area. The pizza of the day here, dipped in the sparkling-bright house salsa verde, is essential to Berkeley.

Yes, they would, it turned out. Blair Marvin and Andrew Heyn are more than the faces behind the preferred bread of Vermont's wild, wonderful Northeast Kingdom; the couple is founding members of the Skagit Valley, Washington-based Bread Lab Collective, a growing group of bread people pledging to offer quality, good-for-you bread at a price that remains accessible to everyone.

Heyn heads up the New American Stone Mill project, which builds high-quality grain mills for bakers around the world.

South Philly isn't exactly short on bakeries — you've got Italian, Mexican, Vietnamese, and a few more we're probably missing. What this side of town definitely did not have, however, was a cute little mod-Jewish outfit run by a South African expat, and Tova du Plessis was only too happy to fix this, just a few years back, and now we forget what life was like in Philadelphia before her apple cake, that babka, and loaves of challah fragrant with za'atar.

Pie queen Nicole Rucker's bit of reasonably-priced honey chess wizardry for Whole Foods last year was such a marvelous thing while it lasted — the same could be said for her much-missed Los Angeles bakery and restaurant, Fiona. These days, she's been popping up inside the city's historic Grand Central Market, while kickstarting her way to a permanent stall, which we've filed under H for Hopefully Later This Summer, along with so many other things.

Home of the kaya sticky buns we never knew we needed, some very pretty pastis de nata, plus also those one-of-a-kind ube bars, the destination-worthy offshoot of the award-winning Fat Rice, Chicago's favorite and we're just spitballing here, but probably only Macanese restaurant will still be one of our favorite reasons to venture out to Logan Square, once all this is over.

People like to talk about the sticky buns, and that's great stuff, but for us, the love affair began with a big slice of Joanne Chang's Boston Cream Pie, rich with cream and enrobed in chocolate ganache, scarfed down in the middle of the afternoon after an exceptionally long train ride from someplace without Boston Cream Pie, and therefore inconsequential and not worth mentioning.

Few bakeries are able to scale up like this and still win almost everyone over. The anise-scented biscochitos, one of New Mexico's favorite treats, are a highlight at this Old Town institution, run by father-and-son duo Pratt Morales and Chris Morales.

But it's the bread, specifically the green chile bread, that is everything you want from a bakery in New Mexico and will have you going out of your way to getting here.

If Arturo Enciso's kouign amann, made wholly unique with the addition of house-milled blue corn masa to the naturally-leavened pastry dough, doesn't have you pointing the car toward his two-story wood frame home near downtown Long Beach, everything else will — think polverones made with California-grown walnuts, of course , spelled flour biscuits, and gorgeous fresh fruit galettes.

Plus, of course, the bread — the drive may be long, but this might be our favorite Los Angeles baguette right now. Mainers, kindly take it up directly with Pennsylvania, because we're very much not here to get in the middle of debates over who invented the whoopie pie.

Instead, let's talk about the annual Whoopie Pie Festival, held normally each September here in Lancaster, specifically at this farm and inn and very popular smorgasbord, where they bake up some of the best little pies in the county starting with classic chocolate, and sell them all year round.

After proving themselves indispensable to Chicagoland bread lovers, Ellen King and Julie Matthei have moved to more spacious digs, a project scheduled for completion smack in the middle of the you guessed it! They've still managed to find time to participate in the worthy Neighbor Loaf program, a donation-driven project bringing fresh, high-quality bread to food banks throughout the Midwest.

Chunky English muffins and handsome sourdough bread take their place alongside jalapeño cream cheese croissants and PBJ cookies at this vital training ground for the world's largest gang rehabilitation project, making Los Angeles a better place for three decades and counting. Rusks for your breakfast, boterkoek for any time, and those unwieldy pastry letters, just for fun — could we be anymore Dutch, and still be out here in the middle of Iowa?

Yes, we could, thanks for asking — that windmill down the block, the one surrounded by tulips every spring, isn't just a pretty face; they're down there milling flour for bread, sold at the bakery for a couple of bucks like it's no big deal. Those who know will drive for hours to get here for the bars, muffins, bread, cookies, and, of course, the homemade jams; this seasonal operation is every bit as essential to the food culture of the rugged Keweenaw Peninsula as rutebaga-stuffed pasties and cardamom-scented nisu bread.

Your purchase supports the group of Byzantine Catholic monks who've made one of the most remote places in the Midwest their year-round home. Is Idaho, in fact, home to some of America's finest challah? We're just asking questions, people — since , Moshit Mizrachi-Gabbitas has been wowing the locals in Boise, who have been overheard swearing that the Israeli expat's skills are Paris-worthy, or even better.

We know this much: a better croissant you will not find, not for many a mile. This blue-collar patisserie in a classic Pittsburgh suburb has been a local institution for roughly a quarter century, a lovably unpretentious stop for macarons and croissants and kouign amann, but also for pumpkin pies in the fall, apple strudel, and big squares of black forest cake, because sometimes that's just what life calls for.

After years of happily inhaling her father James Jackson's spiced sweet potato pies at Thanksgiving, Jimmy Ferguson and her husband Harold decided to share the magic with their South Side neighborhood; those who've tried the goods have been known to drive from much further away to pick up a pie for special occasions.

Joey Batista and mom Isabel Fernandes are making some of the finest pasteis de nata in North America right now — not bad at all for a kid who grew up in Central Massachusetts. These come dusted with sugar and cinnamon, also known as the Lisbon way; there's now a branch in Batista's hometown of Ludlow, just outside of Springfield.

Camille Cogswell made a name for herself baking at Zahav, one of America's finest restaurants since the day it opened, back in — these days, she's at the helm of the fabulously Jewish all-day café and bakery we didn't know we needed, until now.

Come for the Jerusalem bagels, the pistach sticky buns, the rugelach, the everything. After coming out of the gate swinging at a time when Portland was still warming to the idea of becoming a majorly creative food capital , Ken Forkish pretty much wrote the book — Flour Water Salt Yeast — on modern American bread.

After many printings, it's as relevant as ever. Think of Vermont as a theme park for food lovers, in which case the glittering headquarters of America's hottest flour brand employee-owned! would have to be Bread Land.

The on-site bakery is an essential stopwatch through giant windows as the cast members we mean the bakers, sorry do their thing. The future of pan dulce is now, and one of the best places to see it happening is this forward-looking outfit founded by David and Jose Caceres, raised in a commercial baking family in Mexico.

Conchas, made with high-quality ingredients to exacting standards, are some of the best this side of those fancy new Mexico City panaderias. Jeff and Lya Becnel are quietly turning out textbook-perfect croissants and craveable kouign amann in a no-frills storefront out near the New Orleans airport because that's just how good baking in America works these days, we don't make the rules — it's happening almost everywhere.

Just have them fill up a box for you, it won't really matter, because it's all very good. Cuban bread, handmade by a small army of lifers, still with the signature palm frond running the length of each loaf, the way it's been done for more than a century.

Any further questions? Thought not. Family-owned since day one, a second, sit-down location finally opened not long ago — come in the morning for too much cafe con leche and buttered toast, otherwise known as one of Tampa's best breakfasts. Montana's largest city is just about as far as you can get from Dijon, France, without looping back, but Francois Morin spent much of his career in the IT world far from home, which is how he ended up marrying a Montana girl, which is how they ended up here, making some of the best baguettes on Mountain Time since Not only one of the finest patisseries in the Pacific Northwest but also one of the most modest — Gary Potter's exceptional croissants have gotten even better with time while remaining one of the best bangs for the buck we've found this side of the Atlantic.

Potter closed up shop during the pandemic; he's hinted at using the time to perfect his baguette, however, a move one can't help but fully support.

When you're one of the country's oldest bakeries, and you're in New Orleans , it takes more than a pandemic to get you to break with routine — just think how many they've worked through since , and then throw in countless hurricanes, and you get the idea. Morning after morning throughout the COVID crisis, brown bags of the city's favorite po-boy bread could be seen leaning up against doorway after restaurant doorway as if nothing had changed at all.

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All you need to make these brownies are flour, eggs, and you guessed it Nutella! These cheap homemade brownies are chewy and gooey in the middle, with a nice crackly top. I think Oatmeal Cookies are so underrated. These are especially good and are made with 3 cheap ingredients you may already have in your house: oats, chocolate chips, and bananas.

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Endlessly delicious. Enjoy this online exclusive of our favorite world-famous Banana Pudding flavors in one multipack. Baking Ambassador Martin Philip suggests reducing how much flour you use and buy! by keeping a smaller sourdough starter. Sarah is also a big fan of frozen fruit.

frozen fruit in baking. For classic chocolate baked goods, David advises baking recipes that call for cocoa instead of pricier chocolate.

Examples include these Chocolate Dream Cookies, Chocolate Pound Cake , and Chocolate Madeleines — all of which rely on cocoa powder for full flavor and rich taste. Make a pie crust with cookie crumbs see tips at the bottom of our Graham Cracker Crust recipe , trifle with a cake that crumbled or came out a tad dry, potato rolls with leftover mashed potatoes, or bread pudding or French toast with staling bread.

For more ideas, see our previous post: 6 ways to use up leftover bread. Parchment paper is one of our all-time favorite baking products. To reduce the amount she needs to restock, Senior Recipe Developer Molly Marzalek-Kelly will reuse parchment sheets as much as she can.

Turn to trusted resources like the King Arthur recipe site , where our extremely diligent Test Kitchen does extensive testing and thoughtful developing to ensure each recipe will succeed. Which means no wasted ingredients — or money. If you're looking for budget-friendly recipes, try our beloved Cake Pan Cake , a Depression-era recipe made with frugal ingredients, or Our Favorite Sandwich Bread , a classic loaf with a short ingredient list that will last you all week long.

Do you have more tips for baking on a budget? Please share them in the comments, below! Cover photo by Rick Holbrook. I just lightly grease the given pan with shortening.

You should look at Great Depression era cookbooks--none use parchment paper at all and all grease pans with fats. I am not of course disparaging people who use the item, and recognize the lower fat content and other baking uses where parchment paper is preferred, but again it is a resource that cooks of another generation never bothered with.

Wonderful point Troy! Thanks so much for sharing your experience with parchment or lack there of! We appreciate you taking the time. Canola oil is about a quarter of that.

Always remember that almost everything you make from scratch costs a great deal less than the ready made equivalent. Particularly cost effective are the bread recipes that use only flour, water, yeast and salt.

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The Femme Fatale is one of the few flavors regularly available, and the doughnut is stuffed with raspberry curd until it threatens to overflow. The adorable red heart perched atop the frosted vanilla exterior might make it look like a neat little snack, but things are going to get messy.

Vegan version also available. Valley Pastries in Golden Valley hadn't changed much since its founding — even when new owners came aboard nine years ago. But this year it got a new name and a fresh coat of paint, touches to make things a little "funner," said co-owner Alex Loosbrock. In the case, you'll still find the legendary golden fried hand-cut doughnuts, and the signature item: giant, fluffy doughnut holes that fly out by the dozens on weekends.

What they fail to realize is that they're going to be doubling back three or four more times because they're so good. Mention of this Nokomis-area bakery conjures images of the neon Mel-O-Glaze sign that shines like a promise that delivers on every visit.

Its hallmark? The yeasty, pillowy raised glazed doughnuts coated in a crackling shell that carries a faint citrus flavor. The rest of the bakery, which has been a mainstay for more than 70 years, is decorated with joy: little cutout signs with jokes, chalk on the sidewalk, and a staff that always seems genuinely happy to see you.

Those who can't consume gluten can thank Molly Miller, who answered the call for inclusion in the bakery space. The result is Sift, a bright little bakery that churns out all the usual confections but makes them safe for those who need to avoid all flour, yet delicious for anyone who appreciate well-made sweets.

The proliferation of coffee shops that carry their baked doughnuts, frosted and bejeweled with sprinkles, means that even more Twin Cities fans get to enjoy the gluten-free goods. One of the cafe's biggest sellers started out as the solution to a problem: a kitchen that wasn't quite right for proofing yeast-based doughs had to turn out a cinnamon roll — a lifelong favorite of owner Dan Swenson-Klatt.

So instead of an ultra-fluffy bun, Butter's first baker, Amy Kovacs, developed a cinnamon roll made from biscuit dough. Soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside, the biscuit is swirled with cinnamon, cardamom and clove.

It's smaller than your average Cinnabon-inspired roll, and far more sophisticated. Shawn McKenzie, the James Beard-nominated pastry chef, would probably be the first to admit she's a perfectionist.

The Cafe Cerés proprietor spent a decade perfecting her chocolate chip cookie recipe, a quest that started as "an obsession" back when she was around Crispy on the edges, soft on the outer layer and a little doughy in the middle," McKenzie said.

Well, she got it. And brown sugar was one of the keys. Then, her own special touch: tahini, which adds a nutty backbone and a taste of the Middle East that comes through in all of McKenzie's sublime pastries.

The term fika means taking a moment — to sit with company, sip a coffee and snack on a Swedish treat. The bakery case is filled with coffee-pairing confections, but the always-present kardemummabullar, or cardamom bun, is impossible to resist.

Unlike American-style cinnamon rolls, these bready twists — rolled up like a top knot on a ballerina, topped with a sprinkle of sugar — are filled with cardamom, a Scandinavian pantry staple.

Every neighborhood should be so lucky to have the charm of a bakery and cafe like the Finnish Bistro. The dining room possesses the same cozy feel as a stretched-out woolen sweater and a dog-eared novel that slides into a pocket. Opened in , it boasts an expansive menu of soups, sandwiches, baked goods and an entire selection of Finnish dishes.

Even with savory intentions, the stocked bakery case beckons, especially the tray stacked with kringler. Finger-sized slices of the almond-filled, icing-crowned pastry are an excellent pairing with a cup of coffee and a leisurely visit with a friend or a good book.

Paul, finnishbistro. Anne Andrus first tried a morning bun when she was studying pastry in San Francisco. Ten years later, it's still on the menu.

Andrus uses a Danish dough, which is enriched with eggs and high-fat Hope Butter to get those soft yet flaky layers. Each one is rolled by hand, meaning no two look exactly the same — and customers love to select the one that's perfect for them.

Louis Park, honey-and-rye. An unassuming strip mall sets the stage for this rock star of local biscuitdom. Coleman's craggy-edged biscuits are the best kind of attainable joy, whether pried open and topped with a dollop of butter or as the building block of one of the Twin Cities' best breakfast sandwiches.

Coleman is also sharing the biscuit love, offering frozen bake-at-home biscuits and a mix, too. Paul, hothandspie.

Marc Heu made a name for himself in French pastry. Literally — his name is written in large block letters on the front of his expanded bakery and cafe in St.

But the journey to get to that point medical school, working the family farm, culinary school and trendy New York bakeries was a long one.

His impeccable pastries never compromise on French technique, but he adds a twist of his own by celebrating the tropical fruits he grew up with in South America. There's no better example than his signature and bestselling passion fruit tart, which highlights the sweet-and-sour seedy fruit in a smooth filling for his ultra-buttery pastry shell.

Dale St. Paul, marcheuparis. Since the early '90s, Eat Street has been beguiled by the aromas emanating out of Marissa's Bakery — especially the cinnamon-sugar promise of fresh churros.

Owner Isidro Perez, a third-generation baker born in Mexico, named the bakery for his daughter. Over the years, as the neighborhood around it changed and restaurants came and went, Perez's recipes for fresh conchas, marranitos and bolillos have remained true to the bakery's origins.

And the churros — those long-lined wands of dough, fried crisp and dusted with the good stuff — continue to be one of the most affordable and beloved indulgences in the city.

Since , this darling shop has been a quintessential neighborhood bakery, carrying all the usual favorites, from fresh-baked bread to rows of cookies and some of the best sugared cake doughnuts around.

But to miss the pie would be tragic. The family-owned shop, which changed hands in , carries a whole lineup of pies that are just sweet enough to satisfy those with a sweet tooth, but so balanced in their creation that all the ingredients sing. Follow the seasons for rhubarb, triple berry or apple — each one is special and clearly crafted with love and a justly amount of butter.

Johnson St. Pastry chef and owner Alicia Hinze delights in taking a dose of nostalgia and turning it into a modern baked treasure. That fun is found in her cupcakes, specialty cakes, fabulous cinnamon rolls and the Twinkey.

The oblong bit of cake looks unassuming on the outside, a bit like a similarly named treat by a corporate bakery. But the taste is everything simple and wondrous from the kitchen.

These single-serve cakes are piped full of cream, and they disappear with startlingly few bites. Order one with breakfast, and another to squirrel away for later. Paul; NE. Marshall St. Step inside and you'll find folks meeting up for coffee, paging through books to select a special-occasion cake or being mesmerized by the case stocked with all one could ever hope a bakery to carry.

Start with a bite of the angel food cake. Tall and spongy, the interior tastes like warm wishes while the exterior is wrapped in a whipped topping and adorned with glazed strawberry slices. The cafe is everything wonderful about the Powderhorn neighborhood it serves.