Baking Tips & Techniques

Brown Butter 101 for Better Cookies

If you have ever bitten into a cookie and thought, “This is good, but I want it to taste like a bakery,” brown butter is one of the easiest upgrades you can make. It adds a deep, nutty caramel flavor (think toasted hazelnuts and toffee) without changing your ingredient list much at all. The catch...

Clean-Cut Dessert Bars, Every Time

Nothing makes me feel more like a bakery pro than lifting out a pan of brownies and cutting crisp, tidy squares that actually hold their shape. Nothing makes me feel more like a frazzled home baker than dragging a knife through a gooey pan and ending up with a delicious, messy crater situation. The...

Perfectly Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

If you have ever pulled a tray of chocolate chip cookies from the oven and thought, “Why are these crisp, cakey, flat, or weirdly dry when I wanted chewy?”, you are in the right kitchen. Chewy cookies are not an accident. They are a very repeatable combo of moisture, sugar type, flour protein,...

Cream of Tartar Substitutes for Snickerdoodles

If you have ever started a batch of snickerdoodles only to realize you are out of cream of tartar, you are in good company. I have done it mid-preheat, flour on my shirt, cookie scoop in hand. The good news is you can still get a convincingly tangy snickerdoodle with a few smart swaps. Cream of...

Freeze and Bake Cookie Dough Anytime

If you have ever wished you could bake “just a few” cookies on a random Tuesday without hauling out every bowl you own, this is your new best habit. Freezing cookie dough is the baking version of meal prep, and once you do it a couple of times, you will wonder how you lived without a freezer stash....

Nutella-Stuffed Cookies Without Leaks

Nothing is more heartbreaking than pulling a tray of gorgeous stuffed cookies from the oven, only to find little Nutella lava puddles baked onto your pan. I have been there. The good news is that Nutella-stuffed cookies are absolutely beginner-friendly once you learn two skills: freezing the...

About Sadie Jenkins

Hi, I’m Sadie Jenkins, the baker, tester, note-taker, and crumb-cleaner behind Cookie Bar Craft. If you love cookies with chewy centers and crisp edges, brownies with that shiny crinkly top , and dessert bars that cut clean but still feel gooey in the middle, you’re in the right place. I started...