These recipes are designed for everyday baking—easy to start, hard to resist, and always worth it.

You can make these recipes on a weeknight or on a whim: one-bowl cakes, muffins and quick breads, cookies and bars, and cakes that look impressive but demand little time or technique. New York Times bestselling author John Kanell has developed them just the way he does for his online baking destination Preppy Kitchen. You won’t need special tools beyond a stand mixer or hand mixer, and for ingredients—just basic pantry staples. Think butter, flour, sugar, and other supermarket items. Nothing fancy.

Designed to fit into busy days, these recipes make it easy to bake just because. Or, if you need something for any occasion they fit the bill, whether a breakfast or bake sale, a party or potluck, or simply because you really need a snack from scratch.

- Breakfast Bakes: Rum Raisin Cinnamon Rolls, Biscuits Three Ways, Berry-Orange Turnovers
- Muffins, Quick Breads, and Yeasted Breads: Grapefruit Poppy Seed Muffins, English Muffins, Buttermilk Dinner Rolls
- Cookies, Brownies, and Bars: Cherry Pie Bars, German Chocolate Brownies, Pumpkin Spice Snickerdoodles
- Cakes: Angel Food Loaf Cake, Classic Swiss Roll, Coconut Sheet Cake
- Air-Fryer Sweets: Apple Crumb Cake, Triple Chocolate Lava Cakes
- Pies, Tarts, and Make-Ahead Desserts: Limoncello Meringue Pie, Pear and Buttered Rum Crisp, Vanilla Bean Semifreddo

A former math and science teacher, John brings his superpowers of clarity and consistency to every page so that bakers both new and experienced can bake with confidence and delight.