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Peach Puff Pastry Tart
Breakfast and Brunch | Summer Baking

Peach Puff Pastry Tart

This peach puff pastry tart is a deep dish tart featuring a layer of rich, velvety sweet filling. The filling combines buttery, sweet mascarpone cheese with the mild tartness of cream cheese. This combination provides a luxurious, velvety filling that has a delicious balanced flavor. The tart is layered with fresh peaches and blueberries, but…

Homemade Artisan Bread
Bread

Homemade Artisan Bread

This Homemade Artisan Bread only requires 4 ingredients, and zero kneading time. It is incredibly easy, and yields delicious, crusty bread with very little work. You can allow this bread to rise for 2 – 3 hours, or overnight in the refrigerator. This bread freezes well, so you can make it for your week ahead….


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My Favorite Chocolate Covered Cherries
Christmas | Christmas Baking | Christmas Gifts | Valentine’s

My Favorite Chocolate Covered Cherries

These homemade Chocolate Covered Cherries (Cordial Cherries) are better than any that you can buy at the store. The key to these is the addition of almond extract which truly takes the flavor of these up a notch. These are easy to make and only require a few pantry staple ingredients. You can’t beat making…

Crème Brûlée Cookies
Christmas Cookies | Cookies

Crème Brûlée Cookies

These Crème Brûlée Cookies combine a soft, chewy sugar cookie with the signature elements of the classic French dessert – a swirl of pastry cream with a crispy, caramelized sugar topping. The rich, vanilla pastry cream is the perfect compliment to the chewy, buttery sugar cookies. Each bite is filled with the delight of the…

Meet the author

Welcome! I’m Jolene!

Remember the smell of warm chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven? Or, how about holding a slice of gooey, cheesy pizza. The nostalgia of food is something that all of us have. Whether it is the taste of the delicious food that you remember, the person you made the food with, or the people you sat at the table with, we all have nostalgia for our favorite foods. And, nostalgia is something special. It connects me to my dad, who recently passed away. It reminds me of my mom before she was diagnosed with parkinson’s. And, now it makes memories for my own family, for my own kids to remember from their growing up years.

My name is Jolene, the creator of Simple Baking with Pep. I grew up making Christmas cookies with my mom from store-bought dough. While we didn’t make many things from scratch, the memories I made from those Christmas cookies fueled my love for baking. Now I have a family of my own and I enjoy sharing my love of baking and cooking with my own family, just like my mom did. I hope to inspire you to try something new and grow a fondness for baking and cooking. Even if you make a mistake or two, you’ll share some laughs and create memories along the way. Trust me, I’ve had my fair share of burnt cookies. Stay awhile, make a recipe or two, and make some memories that will last a lifetime, along the way.

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