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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.

An overhead shot of a dozen blueberry muffins on a cooling rack.

The Best Lemon-Blueberry Muffins

Double chocolate espresso cookies on a plate.

Double Chocolate Espresso Cookies

Mandel Bread with Marzipan and Sea Salt, Two Ways

Mandel Bread with Marzipan & Sea Salt

A mother's day gift guide montage

Mother’s Day Gift Guide 2022

A montage of gifts for Mother's Day.

20+ Mother’s Day Gift Ideas

15 Mother’s Day Gift Ideas

Mother's Day gift guide montage.

Mother’s Day Gift Guide

Overhead close-up of buttermilk breakfast cake fresh from the oven.

Buttermilk Blueberry Breakfast Cake

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

slice of sausage, spinach and egg casserole

Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Casserole with Spinach

The custard, a ratio of 1 cup crème fraîche to 1 cup whole milk to 5 eggs, makes Tartine's Swiss chard quiche so fabulous. It's smooth with a slight tang and utterly delicious. // alexandracooks.com

Tartine’s Quiche

A cast iron skillet filled with baked fontina with rosemary and thyme.

Baked Fontina

Just-baked lemon-blueberry quick bread.

One-Bowl Lemon-Blueberry Quick Bread

An overhead shot of a mini loaf pan filled with just-baked lemon-ricotta pound cake.

Lemon-Ricotta Pound Cake

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

A plate of chicken souvlaki.

Super-Easy Greek Chicken Souvlaki

Mixed berry galette on a sheet pan.

Mixed Berry Galette (with Foolproof Pastry)

rhubarb custard cake cooled and ready to eat.

Rhubarb Custard Cake

I make crustless quiche nearly once a week, always with uncooked greens, always with fresh thyme, always with crème fraîche, always following the Tartine recipe. Without a crust in the equation, this sort of quiche is effortless to whip up for a weeknight dinner. // alexandracooks.com

Crustless Quiche Loaded with Kale

I absolutely love this sour cream coffee cake — the texture is super moist, and the orange zest and juice offer the nicest complement to the chocolate. The coconut oil, too, imparts such a nice flavor and smells heavenly while baking. // alexandracooks.com

Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Orange & Chocolate

A slice of orange and olive oil cake.

Orange and Olive Oil Cake

A stack of one-bowl buttermilk pancakes.

The BEST One-Bowl Buttermilk Pancakes

A slice of toast with rhubarb jam.

Rhubarb Ice Cream + Rhubarb Jam

A bowl of 3-ingredient lentil salad.

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

A bowl over overnight chia oats and berries.

Beet salad on a plate.

A bowl of bucatini tossed in Ina Gartens vodka sauce.

A bowl of Salsa di Parmigiano aside grilled bread.

A jar of Greek salad dressing on a countertop.

More Vegetarian Recipes