Recent Recipes
Red Velvet Cream Cheese Muffins
These Red Velvet Cream Cheese Muffins feature a tender rich crumb with a delicious, sweet cream cheese center. The muffins only take a few minutes to mix together before baking in the oven for roughly 15 minutes. These red velvet muffins feature the signature vibrant red hue and subtle cocoa flavor, which pairs perfectly with…
Chocolate Layer Cake
This Chocolate Layer Cake is a decadent multi-layer dessert, filled with rich chocolate mousse and silky smooth chocolate ganache. The cake is ultra tender and pairs perfectly with the light chocolate mousse and glossy, smooth chocolate ganache. This cake is a chocolate lover’s dream! Typically I choose vanilla cake over chocolate cake, but this cake…
Cherry Coffee Cake
This Cherry Coffee Cake is a decadent breakfast treat that combines a rich, soft cake with the flavors of sweet, tart cherries and rich chocolate. Fluffy cake is layered with homemade cherry pie filling and a layer of warm, melted chocolate, then topped with a buttery brown sugar, cinnamon crumb topping. This cake makes a…
Chocolate Yule Log Cake
This Chocolate Yule Log Cake is an easier version of the traditional Yule Log Cake. This rich chocolate cake is sandwiched together with a chocolate fudge frosting. A homemade chocolate bark is used for the exterior of the cake to resemble the bark from a log. Sugared cranberries and rosemary are added to the top…
Crème Brûlée Cheesecake
This Crème Brûlée Cheesecake combines a rich, velvety smooth cheesecake with the signature caramelized crunchy sugar found in traditional crème brûlée. This luxurious combination features a vanilla cheesecake that sits on top of a buttery graham cracker crust. The cheesecake is then topped with a layer of sugar that gets torched to create a delicate crunchy layer of…
Spritz Cookies
These Bear Spritz Cookies are rich, buttery and taste similar to a delicate shortbread. These cookies are a classic treat and so fun to make during the holiday season. They are classically known for their tender, sweet flavor and are enhanced with vanilla and almond extract.
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Bacon Crackers
These Bacon Crackers are the perfect quick and easy appetizer or snack everyone will love. Buttery crackers are topped with bacon, brown sugar and a pinch of red pepper flakes to create a delicious sweet and spicy flavor combination. These Bacon Crackers only need four ingredients, and they are truly so easy to make! You…
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…
Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies
These Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies are thick, fudgy cookies that take less than 30 minutes to make. Red velvet cookie dough is rolled in powdered sugar. As the cookies bake, the powdered sugar creates a beautiful crackled top. These cookies have the most delicious fudgy centers and I guarantee won’t last long after you bake…
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.
