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Mother’s Day

Here is a compilation of my the favorite Mother’s Day recipes including this super-flavorful buttermilk blueberry breakfast cake, this crowd-pleasing sausage, egg and cheese casserole, and this incredibly delicious rhubarb-custard cake.

Mixed berry galette on a sheet pan.

Mixed Berry Galette (with Foolproof Pastry)

June 6, 2021

A montage of gifts for Mother's Day.

20+ Mother’s Day Gift Ideas

April 26, 2021

Q&A with Susan Spungen

May 5, 2020

Ultimate Sheet Pan Bacon, Egg, & Cheese Breakfast Slab Sandwich

June 12, 2019

rhubarb custard cake cooled and ready to eat.

Rhubarb Custard Cake

May 10, 2019

slice of sausage, spinach and egg casserole

Sausage (or not), Egg, and Cheese Casserole with Spinach

May 10, 2019

A montage of gifts for Mother's Day 2019.

A Few Ideas for Mother’s Day

May 3, 2019

Four slices of toasted sourdough bread topped with avocado-egg salad and sprouts.

Avocado Egg Salad Toasts on Sourdough

April 17, 2019

Homemade apple chutney recipe in a glass mason jar

Adaptable Chutney Recipe with Apples, Ginger & Lemon

April 3, 2019

Marisa McClellan's apple-date butter, ready to be processed

Cinnamon-Spiced Apple-Date Butter

April 3, 2019

36 Favorite Summer Salads

June 23, 2018

A bowl of 3-ingredient lentil salad.

Mind-Blowing, Three-Ingredient Trader Joe’s Lentil Salad

June 22, 2018

A just baked rhubarb galette.

Rhubarb Galette Recipe with Frangipane

May 25, 2018

two lemon madeleines on a plate

Classic Lemon Madeleines Cookie Recipe

May 11, 2018

A bowl of kale salad with shallot vinaigrette.

Favorite Kale Salad + Large Batch Shallot Vinaigrette

March 15, 2018

Bread baked in a flowerpot. Brushed with butter, sprinkled with sea salt, does anything say, "I love you Mom!" more than this flower pot bread? // alexandracooks.com

Flowerpot Bread

May 7, 2017

Mandel Bread with Marzipan and Sea Salt, Two Ways

Mandel Bread with Marzipan & Sea Salt

September 30, 2016

This chocolate-espresso icebox cake takes all of 20 minutes to throw together, will receive rave reviews from your guests, and you will find too irresistible, impossible, in fact, not to sneak a little spoonful of every time you open the fridge. // alexandracooks.com

Chocolate-Espresso Icebox Cake

September 4, 2016

A sliced loaf of lemon semolina cake.

Ottolenghi’s Lemon-Semolina Cake

May 20, 2016

Double Chocolate Cookies

Double Chocolate Espresso Cookies

May 8, 2016

A slice of potato-crusted quiche.

Tartine’s Quiche, Potato Crusted

April 25, 2016

A stack of one-bowl buttermilk pancakes.

The BEST One-Bowl Buttermilk Pancake

August 18, 2015

Bowls of blueberry cobbler with ice cream on a table.

The Best Blueberry Cobbler

June 19, 2015

I have made this strawberry mascarpone tart several times with a lemony, sweetened mascarpone topped with fresh berries. This is the only pastry crust I will make all summer long in my hot kitchen, on my unforgiving countertops, with my warm, clammy hands. Sayonara rolling pin, see you in the fall. // alexandracooks.com

Strawberry Mascarpone Tart

May 8, 2015