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Homemade Artisan Bread
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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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Spice Cake Cookies
Cookies | Christmas | Desserts | Fall

Spice Cake Cookies

These Spice Cake Cookies are full of warm, fall spices, are soft and topped with a delicious vanilla glaze. The dough is easy to make and requires no mixer. The dough is a roll out dough, so you can make these cookies into different shapes if desired (leaf, Christmas tree, etc). These cookies are great…

Peanut Butter Blossoms
Christmas | Christmas Cookies

Peanut Butter Blossoms

These classic Peanut Butter Blossoms are incredibly soft and chewy. They have the just the right amount of peanut butter that gives them delicious peanut butter flavor, but doesn’t make the dough too dry and crumbly. Before baking the peanut butter cookie dough is rolled in granulated sugar giving the cookies an extra hint of…

Chocolate Wafer Cookies (wafer rolls)
Christmas | Christmas Cookies | Cookies | Valentine’s

Chocolate Wafer Cookies (wafer rolls)

These Chocolate Wafer Cookies are crispy, buttery, chocolate-y cookies that serve as a great vessel for chocolate hazelnut cream, chocolate, jam, whipped cream, or whatever filling you desire. These cookies are just as much fun to make as they are to eat. I guarantee you will impress your friends and family with these! Do you…

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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